Looking for great content for your VR headset (whether a $7 Google cardboard or a $200 Oculus) or just looking to see what can be done with immersive 360* video? The New York Times “360 Video Channel” (https://www.nytimes.com/video/360-video) offers a long list of short documentary videos (2-30 minutes) that give a sense of this medium’s storytelling abilities. The film featured here is the award-winning Traveling While Black, an excellent film the connects The Green Book of the early 20th century to the dangers faced by Blacks today.
Of particular interest in the films is the use of the POV — when and why it is restricted, the use of reflective surfaces to show multiple visual texts at once, the dominance of voice and dialogue as a focus (you might not be looking at the mother describing having to decide whether to stay with her two younger sons at a crime scene or to ride in the ambulance with the body of her oldest son, the victim of a police shooting–you can look away, but you cannot ignore her story).