photo credit: Sebastian Voortman WordPress.com announced today that users can now upload and publish VR content on their sites, including 360° photos and 360° videos. Regular photos and panoramas are also now viewable in VR. The VR gear tested so far includes Cardboard, Gear, Daydream, Rift, and Vive.
Uploading VR content works just like adding normal pictures and videos. Users can then add 360° photos and videos to posts using a “vr” shortcode. The Harvard Gazette’s Confronting the Refugee Crisis story is one live example of the new VR content in action:
“Our goal is to make publishing VR content as simple as publishing text or photos to the web,” Automattic team lead Toni Schneider said. Schneider, who is a big VR fan himself, led the team to bring VR capabilities to WordPress.com. He worked in a VR startup in the 90’s after college and has been a VR fan ever since.
“With the re-emergence of VR, it struck me that WordPress can play a role in making VR content easy to create and access for everyone, just like we did for text and photos,” Schneider said. His team at Automattic uses VR for collaboration and Schneider said “hearing
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