Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 24, 2015 @01:38AM from the deep-inside-jabba-the-hutt dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has launched its 360-degree video feature, with an eye to virtual reality and next year's release of the Oculus Rift. Among the showcase videos is a specially rendered 'fly-through' of a scene from new Star Wars movie 'The Force Awakens', allowing the viewer to pan laterally and horizontally as the movie progresses. This kind of immersive video was made possible with Apple's QuickTime VR in the 1990s, but was hampered by the same technological bottlenecks of the period as VRML.

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Bring on the cat videos ... by gstoddart · 2015-09-24 01:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, I know we've all been waiting with bated breath to have cat videos rendered in immersive VR.
No, wait, the other one ... so, I can what, scroll around in the movie? I'm afraid I'm not getting the point of this. This sounds like one of those technologies which people want to create but nobody knows why they'd need it.
Maybe I don't watch enough cat videos.

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