https://medium.com/virtual-reality-virtual-people/immersive-journalism-30b7cf204c1c

A very prominent application of virtual reality has been immersive journalism the use of VR technologies to represent and communicate the news. I think this is a very interesting application and it is a really good use of VR. So for this post I want to go back to the origins and talk about a paper written in 2010 by Nonny de la Peña who is seen by many as the originator of immersive journalism and has been doing it for several years before the launch of the Oculus Rift in what is thought to be the new current prominence of virtual reality.

The paper presents work that de la Peña did with Mel Slater who if you followed our MOOC you will know that he introduced Sylvia and I to Virtual Reality. It was also in collaboraton with Mel’s wife Mavi Sanchez-Vives and several old friends and collaborators of mine like Doron Friedmann, Bernhard Spanlang and Joan Llobera.