Top Gear Goes 360 Putting Fans Into Stunt Cars

BBC motoring show Top Gear was one of the best-known TV programmes in the world, thanks to audacious road trips and massive stunts. Fans of the show will now be able to enjoy three new pieces of content, all filmed in 360-degrees, putting them in the driver’s seat for some outlandish stunts.

Top Gear Jumps

This is Top Gear doing what it does best, taking cars and doing some insane stunts, just this time you’re the driver. Over on the Top Gear YouTube channel, you’ll find the first of three 360 films covering several death-defying stunts. To start things off, the first film treats the viewer like one of the cast, relaxing in a trailer. A member of the Top Gear production team then escorts them to a buggy which drives around the stunt they’re about to face.

For the first stunt, the viewer is strapping themselves into a petrol tanker and jumping a petrol station (normal everyday stuff). Naturally, this being Top Gear things don’t go as smoothly as possible.

The next two 360 films will be released episodically, with the second jumping over a mini-music festival in an old, underpowered campervan, while the third film sees old Star in a Reasonably Priced Car motor, the Kia C’eed, taking on a jump over a supermarket carpark into the last parking space. The series will conclude with a behind-the-scenes video revealing how the films were made.

Top Gear Jumps

“We wanted to create entertaining content for our YouTube channel that took fans behind the scenes of a Top Gear stunt.  And by producing this content in 360 we were able to ‘virtually’ put viewers right there in the driving seat of three enormously inappropriate stunt vehicles, something we’ve never done before. The results, as you will see, are smashing!,” says Duncan Gray, Commercial Director, Top Gear in a statement.

Created by Top Gear in collaboration with REWIND (Curfew: Join the Race, Ghost in the Shell VR) you can check out the video below or watch with a compatible headset like Oculus Quest using the YouTube VR app. As more of the films are released VRFocus will keep you updated on their release.

Top Gear VR Videos Put Fans In Crazy Car Stunts

Don’t eat your lunch/breakfast/brunch just yet; we’ve got a crazy Top Gear VR video to show you before you lose it.

The BBC just debuted the first of three new 360 videos for the motoring series. Produced with the help of UK-based Rewind, the video puts you in the kind of ridiculously explosive stunt the series is known for. There’s also the usual antics, including a cameo from everyone’s favorite speechless racer, The Stig. You can watch it in the video below.

I was serious about the lunch bit, though; making that massive jump at 75mph then crashing back down into the road doesn’t look incredibly comfortable. You can watch the stunt from outside of the vehicle straight after, too.

If you want to see the footage in VR all you’ll need to do is boot up the YouTube smartphone app, click the headset icon in the video and then slot it into a VR viewer. Other headsets like Oculus Go, Google Daydream and PSVR also have native apps you can use for the best results.

The next film in the series will have viewers jumping over a mini-music festival. After that there’s another jump over a supermarket carpark in a Kia. Finally, the crew will release a behind-the-scenes video of how it pieced together all of this incredibly responsible action.

For Rewind, it’s not the first VR car crash the team’s made. Earlier this year we wrote about Curfew, a tie-in app that puts you in VR’s most comfortable crash. We’re starting to worry about the team’s driving skills, though.

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