VRNation.TV opens for business
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 22 August 2019

Virtual reality hub VRNation.TV has officially launched today offering an online community for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality enthusiasts to share virtual experiences.

Founded broadcast media industry stalwart Scott Lehane, the site is designed to solve one of the biggest problems new VR visor owners face – finding great content. “While VR video games are awesome and we’ll be covering that sector closely, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. VR is vastly bigger than that,” Lehane explained. “Considering it a game platform is like judging computers based on 1977’s Atari 2600 or 1979’s Intellivision. We’ve scoured the web to put together 24 channels of curated 3D and 360-degree content giving you the lean-back, passive experience of TV ...Think of it as cable TV for VR. Put on your visor and just watch.”

The hub’s VR Sherpa section will be updated regularly with new 360 degree content. The channel line-up includes sports, games, music videos and concerts, science, nature, technology, museums, travel, news and documentaries, cinema, animation, comedy and horror, as well as what VRNation.TV says are more quirky channels that suit VR particularly well. These include Cuteness Overload to relax; Heebie Jeebies to face phobias; The Daily iDosefor psychedelia;and The Zen Den for virtual meditative experiences.

VR Hotspots is a showcase of Street View panoramas from around the world. It was developed with a little help from WP Google Maps which provided custom code.

VRNation.TV is open to the public to view and registered members are encouraged to contribute to a crowd-sourcing experiment, sharing their own favourite videos, playlists, VR Hotspots or help out other users with technical issues.

“Live VR streaming is still nascent, but there’s an intensity to it that can’t be denied,” Lehane continued. “And with 10s of millions of visors already in consumers’ hands, I see it as a technology that will really come of age with next year’s Olympics in Tokyo.”