Red Bull is known for extreme sports video, and they are at it again. This time they have done it in full 360. Today's video of the day is a 360 video of wingsuit racing, a new extreme sport where people in wingsuits glide through an aerial course. It's kind of hard to explain so you'll just have to check it out for yourself.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to 360 and VR technology. This new technology is already very popular and is just at the stage when people are using it to similar ends that they would a normal camera or action camera. We are certainly excited to see what new things can be done with 360 and VR and how new ways of telling stories will be developed.
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news.
The concept simply did not exist.
The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us radio, then TV and now the web.
Now, it seems, we are headed back to a world without news. Not because the technology is not there, but rather because, increasingly, people are no longer interested in news, at least in the way it is packaged now.
When television was invented in the 1930s, no one knew what TV news was supposed to look like. The medium had never existed before, and so, like Gutenberg half a millennium, prior, the first creators of TV news had to fall back on a medium with which they were familiar, and that was radio.