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The future of your printing business lies with ABB. abb.com/printing 2 t Spring SPECIAL ISSUE 2017 News & Tech www.newsandtech.com WSJ partners with Google, experiments with VR u BY KIRSTEN STAPLES CONTRIBUTING WRITER The Wall Street Journal is using new Photos: Courtesy of WSJ the power to put the viewer into the story technology to find better ways to connect like VR. By doing this you can literally cre- with readers using their virtual reality app ate empathy on a level that was previously on Google Daydream. This collaboration impossible.” with Google allows WSJ readers to experi- Readers can tune in to 360-video by ence 360-degree video news. using the WSJ VR app on their iPhone, Advancements in VR have the potential iPad, Android phone, computer or with a to change the way we communicate and virtual reality headset. The WSJ website connect. The ability to visualize and be provides detailed instructions on how to use immersed in content increases reader a virtual-reality viewer such as Daydream understanding and boosts cognizance. View from Google. Readers who do not own “Old tech and new will be side-by-side. a virtual reality viewer can still watch the Ultimately, the old content will be adapted 360-degree videos on any of the above listed to new channels. But what is important devices. is publications giving creators latitude to explore new technology as part of their day NASDAQ Interactive job. Journalists and designers and technolo- This isn’t the first time WSJ has stuck their gists need to play with new technology and toe in the virtual reality waters. In 2015, they try new things,” said Roger Kenny, design launched NASDAQ Interactive, a virtual real- tech lead for VR at Dow Jones. ity roller coaster that takes readers back 21 According to a press release by WSJ years into the stock index, starting in 1994. publisher Dow Jones, the app allows read- “But we really wanted to explore the ers to “step inside a virtual room specially idea of a virtual reality news platform and in designed for the app and stay informed with 2016, Google asked [WSJ] to imagine what breaking news, follow the markets with a VR news would look like for their forthcom- live markets data visualization and immerse ing Daydream Platform. [WSJ] took that as themselves in compelling narrative.” an opportunity to design something from The first 360-degree video on the WSJ the ground up,” Kenny said when explaining VR app follows Denise Mueller, a woman how WSJ has been experimenting with VR working to become the fastest female cyclist. since NASDAQ. The broadcast features Mueller’s journey WSJ took advantage of that opportunity through the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, by allowing their readers to experience jour- allowing readers to focus on the parts of her nalism in a remarkably innovative way. journey they find most interesting. “We designed it as a jumping off point “We’ve produced interactive, virtual for any other VR experiences the newsroom reality storytelling that allows the Journal’s might want to try,” Kenny said. “It could be reporters and editors to take readers and an interactive 360-video, such as the ones viewers of our journalism anywhere in the in our Daydream app. It could be a 3D data world,” said Andy Regal, WSJ’s global head visualization, such as the stock market of video. hologram, also in our Daydream app, or WSJ isn’t the only publication taking something completely different, such as an readers around the world. Other news orga- immersive 3D experience.” nizations such as CNN, ABC News and The As VR technology continues to grow, New York Times have all taken leaps into publications and consumers alike will grow VR and 360-degree video. With the advance- with it. WSJ has left room with WSJ VR to ments and availability of VR technology, ensure that they will be a part of this growth readers are now able to become an active in the years to come. p participant in each story they view. “VR is the most compelling medium to tell stories,” Kenny said. “Nothing has News & Tech Spring SPECIAL ISSUE 2017 u 3 Volume 29, No. 3 Spring News & Tech P.O. Box 478 SPECIAL ISSUE Beaver Dam, WI 53916 CONTENTS p: 303.575.9595 2017 www.newsandtech.com Publisher & Editor-In-Chief Mary L. 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App developers have personalizes the news that they want to consume and only contributed greatly to this, developing useful tools for pub- news stories from sections of their interest will flow into lishers and consumers allowing for more control of their their ‘Timeline’,” Modi said. “We provide multiple touch media experience. controls to interact with the apps. The user experience is Companies like Whiz Technologies have stepped in valued the most, so we try to make options available.” to facilitate the need for easy to access digital and video Whiz also offers a background refresh that works with content, especially for media company heavy hitters such reader habits. as Schurz Communications, Dispatch Digital, Cordillera “If you constantly check the app at noon, it will learn Communications, Evening Post Industries, Pittsburgh to wake up in the background a few minutes before noon, Post-Gazette and NPG (News-Press & Gazette Company).