Gone are the days where videos use to be just flat and non realistic. World second largest search engine, after its parent company Google, YouTube has recently announced the support of 3D stereoscopic videos to its already existing 360° videos. This allow user to see a video in any direction and not just where the camera is pointing.

Now with the addition of 3D inside 360°, our virtual world just got more real. Remember those punch flying out of the screen and that close-to-real encounter with rain falling while sitting on your theatre seat. This 3D effect really spiced up classic styles of movie presentation. So adding this amazement to all new 360° view, will result in more breath taking virtual reality experience.


This VR (Virtual Reality) can be experienced right away if you have VR devices like Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard. Now with upgrade, user can see immersive three dimensional video as they swivel around to change their view. Wondering ‘how they are shot?’ then here is the answer. These videos are shot with the cameras pointing in the different directions and then stitched by using special software.

There is an increasing library of 360° videos on YouTube. Once opened, they can be viewed in any direction either by panning videos in your chrome browser using WASD keys or by moving your phone on YouTube mobile app. There are music videos from well known artists, F1 rides, horror episodes, view of an airport are all available in 360° view. Also recent upload of by Bud Light, is the first ad in 360°.This support has opened a whole new dimension to moviemakers and storytellers. By exploiting this they get nothing but their audiences, enthralled.

Before we use to see movies just as audiences, but now we will be able to experience movies right from the eyes of the characters in it. You may end up falling from the aeroplane in a wingman suit while chilling in your living room or you might just visit moon just from your desk and not moving an inch!

VR can’t get much closer than this.