BBC Nile report films with Virtual Reality camera
The BBC used a Virtual Reality camera to film a news report looking at the political implications of the damming of the River Nile in Ethiopia.
Alastair Leithead, the BBC’s Africa correspondent, took a trip down the iconic river through Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt for the two-part report entitled Damming the Nile VR.
Much of the project was shot using an Insta360 Pro, a 1.2kg VR camera with six fisheye lenses that is usually mounted on a tripod and was supervised by VR expert Phil Harper.
The camera generates immersive VR with fully spatialised audio, meaning the sound changes depending where the user looks.
The Insta360 Pro is designed to be mobile and Leithead and his team sheltered the camera with a sunhat to prevent the unit overheating between takes.
“Crucially, the trip was going to be happening anyway and it seemed like a good opportunity to help kick-start the BBC’s VR content with a journey down a scenic river,” says Leithead, in comments to KFTV. "The trip would ordinarily be too expensive if planned as a project organised solely around VR."
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