Friday is here, and while the weekend will as always bring our weekly look at the virtual reality (VR) news for sport we’re going to finish off Life In 360° for this week with a look at America’s national pastime.
The Baseball Almanac once described baseball (among other things) as “a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. In baseball democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rulebook. Color merely something to distinguish one team’s uniform from another. Baseball is a rookie. His experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfilment of his dream. It’s a veteran too, a tired old man of thirty-five hoping that those aching muscles can pull him through another sweltering August and September.”
Today on Li360 we’re heading back to San Francisco and to AT&T Park, home of The Orange and Black themselves, the San Francisco Giants. Founded back in 1883 as the then New York Gothams, the Giants recently took fans behind the scenes for a 360 degree tour of the Giants Clubhouse.
Former Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt gives the rundown on the facilities in the Clubhouse. It’s a nine minute video, so pretty hefty and covers everything from the dressing room to the laundry room and kitchen.
Check it out below. VRFocus will be back with more Life In 360° on Monday.
As one developer and friend I spoke to told me during a quick chat, “It’s so nice to see you out and about and know you’re not stuck in your office 365 days a year.”
Beyond that though, I didn’t see a heck of a lot of VR on display. There was 
When it comes to print media, this focus has naturally moved more to augmented reality (AR), and all manner of publications such as 
“At Cosmopolitan we are continuously looking for new ways to innovate across platforms and deliver frictionless solutions to our readers and advertisers,” Added the magazine’s Senior Vice President/Publisher Donna Kalajian Lagani. “We are thrilled to be the first publisher to debut this true print-to-mobile experience with Perfect Corp. and YouCam, and are excited to introduce this experience to our audience of more than 81 million monthly beauty-obsessed consumers.”
So, what if the ground wasn’t stationary. What if it too was moving?
The company in question is 
Of course with Pete back I mostly return to my usual gaggle of roles for the site, and back gratefully away from writing up news. I’m not a writer in a professional sense, I know this. I enjoy that (occasional) part of the job about as much as getting punched in the stomach to the tune of La Cucaracha. But one thing really stuck in my mind as I was writing various news stories up over the latter part of the week – if you think about it, virtual reality (VR) is pretty weird.