If you've ever wanted to step inside Chancellor Kent Syverud’s residence [29], get a taste of Faegan’s Tuesday Night Beer Tour [30] and cheer on the men’s basketball team [31] right from the Carrier Dome student section, here is your chance with an interactive project that revolves around several 360-degree and virtual reality videos.
A team of 19 journalism majors used traditional and innovative journalistic techniques to explore five areas of the SU experience, including virtual reality 360-degree video as the key visual for each theme. One team spent several evenings capturing rehearsals for three of SU’s dance organizations [32] while another team ventured to Beak & Skiff’s 1911 Cider House [33] to learn how the popular beverage is made.
The student journalists were all Syracuse University [34] juniors, seniors and graduate students enrolled in the Newhouse School [35]‘s Web Journalism & Innovation class. Some of the techniques explored in the class and reflected in the project include 360-degree video, time-lapse video, social media engagement, and data scraping, analysis and visualization.