How can journalists use virtual reality to tell news stories?

Virtual reality experiences are disrupting the way we tell stories, but the dark art of how to create your own remains a mystery to most people outside of the video game or animation industries, especially those who would prefer to do so on a tight turnaround and conservative budget. This is a simplified guide for building an immersive story experience that could be applied to recreating a news event in virtual reality (without using 360 video). It’s meant more as a primer than a definitive, comprehensive guide — but should be enough to sate those who can’t tell their Oculus from their elbow, while providing a few tidbits to those who already can.

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Dan Archer  
   
Residential fellow

Dan Archer is a graphic journalist who uses comics and immersive storytelling to report on human rights issues. He was a 2014-2015 RJI Fellow.