Throughout the year Google has added several new viewing experience to YouTube, including but not limited to virtual reality features as well as support for 360-degree videos that enable creators to share their content with viewers in immersive new ways. Today yet another new experience joins the list, and it’s the interactive 360-degree videos that Google calls “Spotlight Stories.”
Spotlight Stories happen to be a completely different kind of viewing experience as they tap into the phone’s sensors to allow the story to become interactive. This means that viewers move their phone around to various scenes they unlock mini-stories within the main story.
“Special Delivery” is the first of the Spotlight Stories to come out of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group, it’s made by the Academy Award-winning animation studio Aardman Animations of Gromit and Wallace fame, with the full interactive experience featuring 10 subplots, three potential ways to the ending and more than 60 moments where viewers can decide how they want to follow the story.
The only caveat is that this interactive video is only supported on select Android smartphones, but Google has made a 360-degree version of this video which works across all Android devices aside from the web and the iOS app. It’s also possible to watch the video using Google Cardboard VR headset.
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