VR Healthcare Meetups
We went to several Healthcare Meetups over the past three weeks, showcasing our healthcare prototype and listening to talks about how VR can be utilized for healthcare purposes: […]
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New VR Pop Up Store in Berlin
Two weeks ago, we co-hosted our 3rd VR Pop Up Store in Berlin.
Fader Updates And Come Meet Us At Our Pop-Up Store In Berlin
Our product Fader has been co-funded by Google’s Digital News Initiative (DNI). We (Vragments) have been able to team up with Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Bonn and France-based international broadcaster euronews in Lyon to focus on defining user-driven feature requests, testing iterations with journalists and building a solid technical infrastructure to launch a platform for immersive storytelling. Fader is a journalistic Read more about Fader Updates And Come Meet Us At Our Pop-Up Store In Berlin[…]
Creation Of An Educational Art VR Experience — Pt. I (Ideation)
This February, we (Vragments) teamed up with Deutsche Welle to create a VR experience that started in 2017 with an ideation workshop and continued with a prototype workshop.
VR Workshop For Beginners – What Can Be Done In 48 Hours?
Earlier this year, we conducted a VR workshop at Deutsche Welle AKADEMIE in Bonn, Germany. The participants wanted to learn more about immersive storytelling. Within two days, all DW trainees were able to come up with some very creative approaches to 360 narratives. […]
How We Prototyped Our First AR App In 5 Days (Part 3/3)
In December, we went to Potsdam for five days to create an AR prototype. This is the final post about how we went about it. You can read the first and the second part, in case you missed it. Our goal was to learn more about the technologies behind ARKit and ARCore, understand potential use cases and to build Read more about How We Prototyped Our First AR App In 5 Days (Part 3/3)[…]
Fader Feature: User Analytics
Good news for all our Fader users: We have implemented a long-awaited feature that allows Fader creators to check their user analytics. […]
How We Prototyped Our First AR App In 5 Days (Part 2/3)
From sketching, deciding all the way to prototyping – this post is the second of three posts in which I’ll explain how we created our first AR prototype. […]
How We Prototyped Our First AR App In 5 Days (Part 1/3)
In December, we went to Potsdam for five days to create an AR prototype. This is how we went about it. […]
Dreaming of a VR Christmas: Launching an immersive #VRcalendar
In cooperation with DW Innovation, Euronews, and numerous members of the international VR community, most notably VR/AR expo organizers DIGILITY, we launch the first VR/360 advent calendar today. […]
VR Conference for Journalism & Documentary 2017 in Berlin
Last week, we held our third annual VR Conference for Journalism and Documentary. […]
Our VR project is nominated for Deutscher Radiopreis
We are honored to see that our VR project „Stasiverhöre – Manipulierte Geständnisse“ has been selected for Deutscher Radiopreis! […]
Fader Tutorials
We have seen loads of new sign ups and people experimenting with Fader. […]
An improved editor and more
We are happy to share all the good news with you.
Three VR journalism reports you should be reading right now
Three reports, published in 2015, 2016 and 2017, tell the story of an exciting medium and its road ahead.
Stasi interrogation: A VR experience
Have you ever been interrogated? Are you aware of interrogation methods being used to get confessions? Yes? No? Have you ever heard of the REID method?
First Fader Use Case with The Center for Investigative Reporting: “Disfellowshipped”
We have been working with the Center for Investigative Reporting on a first Fader use case for months. The outcome is incredible: A three episodes long mini VR series about Debbie McDaniel, a “woman with an extraordinary past.”
Our Fader prototype is up and running
These are exciting times for us. Google’s Digital News Initiative has announced their second round of funding and we are proud of being considered yet another time. We aim to build a VR tool – Fader – that turns your story into a VR experience. Easy, fast and web-based!
Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland
Dieses Jahr gehören wir zu den Unternehmen mit dem Titel „Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland 2016“. […]
VR in Berlin
This week is a good week to be in Berlin. Especially, if you are a VR journalist or if you are interested in VR storytelling. Then Berlin is a good place to be right now. Why? Well, first of all, we are organizing Berlin’s first VR Journalism Hackathon. This is exciting because we bring together a Read more about VR in Berlin[…]