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Al Jazeera Debuts First VR Documentary ‘I Am Rohingya’

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Jamalida Begum is a Rohingya Muslim woman living at the camp after fleeing violence in her native Myanmar. “I Jamalida’s love for dancing, passion for life, and inspiring resilience in the face of unthinkable adversity is the focus of the studio’s first virtual reality documentary.

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Top 8 Media Using 360° Videos for Immersive News Stories

VeeR VR

Immersive media is a collective term that incorporates 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and volumetric capture (includes both CGI and 3-D scanning). Marcelle Hopkins, the executive director of virtual reality at NYT, shared some of his team's insight in an interview with Digiday.