The promise of virtual reality (VR) to offer engaging experiences and information for users is about to come true. VIRJOX project aims to ideate, create, develop, and evaluate innovative service concepts, service environments, and journalistic storytelling concepts for VR for real usage contexts. Project develops and applies an agile design and development process especially for developing VR-services and supporting content and service creation to different media channels and environments. The aim is to study and create experiential content and solutions for VR in fast development cycles that create added value for users in different contexts of use in multi-service environments.
Duration of the project: 01.11.2016-31.05.2018
Funding: Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation.
Research Consortium: CMT/COMET and SIS/TAUCHI, University of Tampere; IHTE, Tampere University of Technology; Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä,.
Contact: Researcher Esa Sirkkunen (esa.sirkkunen at uta.fi)
Publications:
Sirkkunen Esa, Väätäjä Heli, Uskali Turo, Pour Rezaei Parisa (2016) Journalism in Virtual Reality: Opportunities and Future Research Challenges. AcademicMindtrek ’16 Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, pages 297-303. Link to the article.