
Immersive journalism uses VR to insert viewers directly into the story - maxufberg
http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/journalisms-new-reality
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aaron695
Ain't going to happen before AI.

As a 'just so' story think of the radio play 'War of the Worlds' and how hard
that is to do in video, then take that again to VR.

VR/AR means rather than one story your telling multiple at once.

The human hours is just prohibitively expensive.

It currently pays off because of novelty, but that's it.

What might work is raw footage of something in progress (Since the situation
'pays' for the 3D) but this is rare to non existent in proper journalism.

Take the shots being fired in the Paris raid filmed by a 'citizen journalist'.
All immersion would achieve is seeing into the photographers apartment.

This drone footage would work, but it's less a story about Syria and more
about war porn
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ELAa02TUY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ELAa02TUY)

