wraggster
September 14th, 2015, 20:11
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Some day you could be flipping through your vacation photos while wearing a VR headset. At the XOXO Festival taking place in Portland, Oregon this weekend, Flickr (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/23/flickr-pro-returns/) is showing off an early preview of a virtual reality experience that it hopes to integrate with its photo service. The demo at the festival was with an Oculus DK 2 (http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/19/oculus-rift-development-kit-2/) hooked up to a PC and the idea is that you'll be able to use the headset specifically with 360-degree panoramic photos. I tried it on and indeed I was able to look all around me in 360 degrees to view an entire scene. To flip through the slides, I looked down at a pair of pink and blue balls for a couple of seconds, which triggers the next photo to load.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/13/flickr-vr/
Some day you could be flipping through your vacation photos while wearing a VR headset. At the XOXO Festival taking place in Portland, Oregon this weekend, Flickr (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/23/flickr-pro-returns/) is showing off an early preview of a virtual reality experience that it hopes to integrate with its photo service. The demo at the festival was with an Oculus DK 2 (http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/19/oculus-rift-development-kit-2/) hooked up to a PC and the idea is that you'll be able to use the headset specifically with 360-degree panoramic photos. I tried it on and indeed I was able to look all around me in 360 degrees to view an entire scene. To flip through the slides, I looked down at a pair of pink and blue balls for a couple of seconds, which triggers the next photo to load.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/13/flickr-vr/