VR NEWSROOM
A CGGC/GIP PROJECT BY NATAN YELLIN
SUPERVISORS: BOAZ STERNFELD, OMRIAZENCOT, YARONHONEN
VR NEWSROOM
EXPLORE NEWS IN 3D SPACE
VR Newsroom is a new way of experiencing live news stories. Explore articles in a dynamic virtual newsroom. Point at news with your hands for more information and toss stories aside when you are done with them.
MORE THAN 70 NEWS SOURCES
Follow world politics, sports, technology news, and business news with a variety of built-in sources including The NY Times, CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, ESPN, Ars Technica, BuzzFeed, and more.
READ RSS FEEDS
Read your favorite blogs with VR Newsroom's built-in support for RSS feeds. Use public RSS bridges to explore websites that don't inherently support RSS.
BUILT FOR THE HTC VIVE
VR Newsroom was designed and developed to use all the features of the HTC Vive, including room-scale tracking and the motion controllers.
TECHNOLOGY
VR Newsroom is powered by Unity and the Virtual Reality Toolkit (VRTK). The Lab Renderer is used to render high-quality graphics optimized for VR. Various HTTP caching and image compression mechanisms are supported for minimizing image load times by reducing texture sizes out-of-process, including Polipo and ImageOptim.
DEMO
