Events
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:
May 24, 2018
News from creators for creators
Events
New VR Pop Up Store in Berlin
Two weeks ago, we co-hosted our 3rd VR Pop Up Store in Berlin.
May 24, 2018
Fader
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 product, enabling storytellers to create and publish 360º/VR stories easily and fast. For more than a year now, the DNI-team has been nothing but supportive,
May 2, 2018
Lab
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.
April 18, 2018
Fader
Fader On Mobile Browsers – A Status Update
UPDATE: Video has returned on mobile platforms on iPhones with iOS 11.3+ Patience is a virtue. Currently, the most recent update for Chrome 65 (65.0.3325.109) for Android browsers is being rolled out. Unfortunately, this release introduced a bug for WebVR sites. Fader is affected by it, too. At least for now. The symptoms are: very slow vertical rotation and no horizontal rotation. This is a bummer, since we know our users would like to enjoy Fader stories on their phones, not just
March 13, 2018
Events
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.
February 21, 2018
AR
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 an app that users can try out. After going through Google’s UX design process methodology (steps are: Unpack, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, Test), we finally ended
February 12, 2018
Fader
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.
January 19, 2018
AR
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.
January 11, 2018
AR
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.
January 11, 2018
Fader
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.
December 1, 2017
Fader
How to produce a 360 story with your mobile phone
It is easy, it is fast. And it is fun. Tell your story with Fader. All you need is a mobile phone, a tea bag and scarf.
November 24, 2017
Events
VR Conference for Journalism & Documentary 2017 in Berlin
Last week, we held our third annual VR Conference for Journalism and Documentary.
September 26, 2017
Events
Open up your own VR pop up store
Pop up stores are lit. We need more of them. It is an awesome way to get feedback from users, connect with potential partners and showcase projects you’re working on.
September 18, 2017
projects
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!
August 17, 2017
Fader
August 11, 2017
Company
August 4, 2017
Company
Hello again
Here is a list of stuff that we have accomplished together with our partners at Deutsche Welle and Euronews.
July 21, 2017
VR
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.
May 2, 2017
projects
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?
March 16, 2017
