Experience last week’s St. Paul Winter Carnival Torchlight Parade in a whole new way.
While watching the video above, you can pan in every direction — left and right, up and down — using the mouse on your computer, or your finger on a phone or tablet screen. For best results on a mobile device, like an iPhone or Android phone, view the video in Google’s YouTube app.
This means you can watch the video more than once and see it in a slightly different way each time. You’ll feel like you are actually there.
What is this sorcery?
Minneapolis-based Visual recorded the 360-degree footage using a virtual-reality camera mounted on the Pioneer Press’ official car, the T.C. Rover, which was in the parade.
Visual’s founder, Chuck Olsen, got additional 360-degree footage while wandering on foot with his VR camera through Rice Park on the evening of the parade.
For all the geeky details on Visual’s Torchlight Parade VR-video shoot, check out this blog post. It explains how you can watch the Winter Carnival video using virtual-reality goggles for a more realistic and immersive effect.
Virtual-reality video is all the rage. More and more such content is being posted on YouTube, as well as on Facebook. Learn more about this.
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