{"id":5698,"date":"2017-07-17T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:57:47","slug":"youtube-vr-360o-heatmaps-creators-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/17\/youtube-vr-360o-heatmaps-creators-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube VR: 360\u00ba heatmaps, Creators Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewer: \u201cWhere the hell should I look?\u201d<br \/>Creator: \u201cWhere the hell <em>do<\/em>\u00a0people look?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Making compelling 360\u00ba content\u2014like both pimpin\u2019 &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/QmEZOZvH5-Q\/hqdefault.jpg\">impin<\/a>\u2019\u2014ain\u2019t easy. Fortunately YouTube is adding some new <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube-creators.googleblog.com\/2017\/06\/hot-and-cold-heatmaps-in-vr.html\">analytical tools<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today we\u2019re introducing heatmaps for 360-degree and VR videos with over 1,000 views, which will give you specific insight into how your viewers are engaging with your content. With heatmaps, you\u2019ll be able to see exactly what parts of your video are catching a viewer\u2019s attention and how long they\u2019re looking at a specific part of the video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Meanwhile they\u2019ve started a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/yt\/space\/losangeles-vr-creator-lab.html\">VR Creator Lab bootcamp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Take your VR video creation to the next level. YouTube is taking applications for a 3 month learning and production intensive for VR creators. Participants will receive advanced education from leading VR instructors, 1:1 mentoring, and $30K &#8211; $40K in funding toward the production of their dream projects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The application window has now closed (sorry I didn\u2019t the news &#8217;til now), but hopefully this will go well &amp; future openings will emerge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NewImage-18.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"355\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewer: \u201cWhere the hell should I look?\u201dCreator: \u201cWhere the hell do\u00a0people look?\u201d Making compelling 360\u00ba content\u2014like both pimpin\u2019 &amp; impin\u2019\u2014ain\u2019t easy. Fortunately YouTube is adding some new analytical tools: Today we\u2019re introducing heatmaps for 360-degree and VR videos with over 1,000 views, which will give you specific insight into how your viewers are engaging with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5699,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions\/5699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}