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Sky VR's interactive museum visit deserves a bigger audience
Sir David Attenborough first lent his silky narrator's voice to the medium of VR when he teamed up with London's Natural History Museum for a special exhibit on the earth's prehistoric oceans. And now, several years later, the institution and Sir Dave have collaborated once again on a VR experience commissioned by European media-and-telecommunications company Sky. Hold the World offers an interactive look at a few of the museum's more interesting specimens, from the huge blue whale skeleton that hangs in the building's main entrance hall down to a tiny rat flea. Naturally, there's an educational aspect, with a lifelike hologram of Attenborough telling you all about the artifact as if he were sitting right there. But there's a catch: You'll have to be a Sky customer to try it out when it launches this spring.
Sky VR now available on Google Daydream headsets
Sky has slowly been adding virtual reality content to its Sky VR app, but those Star Wars and David Beckham specials have only been available to viewers with Google Cardboard. Fast forward almost five months and the broadcaster has finally done something about that, today confirming that it's adding support for Google's other VR platform, Daydream, to its apps. It means that if you own one of Google's Daydream View headsets or are keen to invest in one, you'll now have more local content available to stream.
Sky introduces its first VR app
Sky has announced that it's launching Sky VR, a mobile virtual reality app that'll showcase the best of the company in 360-degree video. Viewers will be able to catch, for free, snippets of sporting events as well as promotional content from movie studios, including Star Wars: Red Carpet. The broadcaster will also be producing original content for the platform, including Sky Sports: Closer with David Beckham. Closer acts as a showcase of sorts, with Beckham introducing clips from an Anthony Joshua fight and trackside at Silverstone.
