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In case you haven't checked it out, Immersive Shooter is a very useful resource for VR content creators and journalists.  Here are some of the stories from the past week on Immersive Shooter: Intel will be bringing 360 video live streams and replays to the next Olympics Global Editors Network panel on VR in journalism , moderated by Immersive Shooter's Editor-at-Large Robert Hernandez from the GEN Summit in Vienna.  Here's a video of the panel discussion: McClatchy's 360 video workflow for breaking news Kandao Obsidian to be launching soon; here are the specifications .   You can also check out samples I posted previously . Jaunt VR camera videos to be offered as stock content through Getty Images . You can also check out my guest post there this week , talking about the Insta360 Pro, the Garmin Virb 360, and the Lanparte LA3D-VR-01.

YouTube has added heatmaps to popular 360 videos, showing where viewers are looking. Update : Scott of  Foundry 45  shared a video of a heatmap.  See below. YouTube added 360 heatmaps to analytics tools, letting you see where viewers are spending the most time looking.  Last year, heatmaps were added by Facebook, but the threshold was quite high at 50,000 unique viewers (not views).  YouTube's heatmap has a threshold of only 1,000 views . To see the heatmaps for your videos,  click here .  You can also go to your Video Manager and then see the new 360 Heatmaps tool under Analytics.  You can see the heatmap and how it changes as the video plays. Update : Scott of Foundry 45 shared this video of a heatmap: There is a separate heatmap for desktop viewers and for mobile viewers.   In my videos, it seems that desktop viewers are much more likely to look around, while mobile viewers stay mostly in the original view. Sample 1 (top: desktop; bottom:...

The Guru 360 is the most affordable gimbal for 360 cameras.  It also has one of the smallest nadirs and in some cameras, it can even become almost invisible .  Here's a demo and tutorial. Stabilizing your video with a gimbal is one of the most effective ways to improve its quality and to enhance your viewers' experience.  Among gimbals designed for 360 cameras, the Guru 360 is the most affordable and it also has one of the smallest nadirs to date. The nadir is small enough that it is possible to make it almost invisible.  Here's a 360 video demo and a tutorial: As I mentioned in the video, the most visible parts of the Guru 360 in the nadir are the motor and the counterweights.  To make them disappear, you need to do two things: 1. Move the camera off the center of the gimbal and toward the pitch/roll motor.  The goal is to put the motor between the lenses. 2. To hide the counterweight that is on the opposite side of the pitch/roll motor, you need to split...

360 videos give the viewer total freedom to look around, but sometimes viewers can get "lost" and not know where to look.  In this tutorial for Adobe Premiere Pro, we will learn to guide the viewer's attention by controlling the heading and orientation dynamically as the video plays.  This technique can also be used to fix "drifting" in Xiaomi Mi Sphere and other gyro-stabilized 360 cameras or even gimbals. The subject in the middle of an equirectangular 360 video will be the initial heading of a 360 video. As you know, you can change that heading using the "Offset" effect in Adobe Premiere Pro.  However, you can also change that heading dynamically in the middle of the video by using keyframes . The same technique can be applied to fix drifting issues (if any) in stabilized 360 cameras or gimbals (when not correctly calibrated).  Indeed, this technique can also be used to apply a very basic form of image stabilization to non-stabilized 360 cameras. H...

How do you use an ND filter for your 360 camera?  One way is to use a rig.... Paulo Teixera shared this video by Personal View , where SLR Magic shows their filter system which attaches to rear lenses of Micro Four Thirds lenses:

Here is a tutorial for leveling or straightening the horizon in your 360 video using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.  This very short (3 minute video) tutorial doesn't require a plug-in but does require Premiere Pro 2017.1. A 360 video needs to have a level horizon or else it will make it move unexpectedly when rotated, which can be confusing and disorienting for viewers.  Because of this, many 360 cameras have vertical orientation sensors to automatically render the video rightside up.  However, the orientation sensors usually don't work perfectly, or sometimes works only for photos but not for videos.  The result is often a tilted horizon in 360 videos. In this tutorial, I show how to correct / level / straighten the horizon using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.  This tutorial requires that you upgrade your Premiere to 2017.1 or later. Here is the tutorial: I hope you found this video helpful!  Please take a moment to hit the like button (so that YouTube can show it to mor...

The International Virtual Reality Photography Association (IVRPA) is conducting its 12th annual conference from June 3 to June 6 in scenic Vienna, Austria.  There are several interesting presentations at the conference.  Here is a video of one of the presentations. Update: added a playlist of other videos. This presentation is by Jorg Dietrich of Panoramastreetline.com (jump to 29:58): Here is a playlist of other videos: In addition to workshops and panels, there will also be exhibitors, including Ricoh, which will showcase the Ricoh Theta 4K . You can check out IVRPA's YouTube channel here and its official website here . Thank you very much to my good friends Jim Jensen ( Google+ Photo Sphere Community ) and Ben Claremont (Life in 360) for bringing this to my attention!

360 Basics is a new series for 360 camera beginners and novices. We all have to start somewhere, and there's no better time to start than now.  I promise that the journey will be worthwhile. You've seen those tiny planet photos and videos and perhaps have wondered how they're done.  In this video tutorial, you'll learn how, from my good friend Ben Claremont (Life in 360) , one of the most recognized 360 photographers, and who is well known for his tiny planet photos and videos. One of the most popular ways to use a 360 photo or video is to present it as a tiny planet photo (like the one above), or sometimes as an inverted tiny planet, usually called rabbit hole, like this one: A few years ago, taking a photo like this was quite challenging.  However, 360 cameras changed all that, and made the capture process easier.  This allowed artists to focus on the creative aspect of 360 photography instead of being mired in the technical aspects of being able to capture and sti...