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"\n\nFor the past ten years, Justine Ezarik \u2014 aka iJustine \u2014 has been a pioneer in video blogging. With nearly 2.7 million subscribers, a Webby, and a Streamy, she\u2019s always looking for new ways to engage with her fans. Now, she\u2019s one of the first vloggers to embrace the ability to produce virtual reality content for YouTube. Today, her first 360-degree video, Full Circle, went live. In the video, Justine talks about how she became a vlogger, while giving viewers an immersive tour of her favorite places in Santa Monica, CA. The 360-degree \u201Cfull circle\u201D footage allows fans to explore the different locations she visits \u2014 like the beach and the pier \u2014 by tilting their phone or scrolling with their trackpad.\n\n\u201CSometimes you plan things and it doesn\u2019t go the way you planned, and for me, I\u2019m always open to alternate paths,\u201D Justine tells Teen Vogue. \u201CIf I were to stick to the path that I planned on back in the day, I would just be doing graphic design \u2014 I love graphic design, but now I get to do it on a huge scale [as a vlogger].\u201D With 360-degree footage, Justine offers her audience the chance to take these \u201Calternate paths\u201D within the world of her video, so no two viewers will experience the content the same way.\n\nIn March 2015, YouTube announced the launch of the 360-degree video option, but until now, immersive video was considered a novelty reserved for news outlets like The Washington Post, tech companies like GoPro, and consumer brands like Red Bull. &amp;quot;The problem for the past few years in virtual reality was that the headsets were hard to get, they were expensive, and you could only have them if you were a developer,\u201D Justine explains. \u201CBut now, consumers are able to get their hands on them and doing things like YouTube 360, I think people are really getting to experience content in a whole new way.\u201D It\u2019s also a new challenge for vloggers to produce immersive footage, because now, they have be conscious of so much more during production. To produce Full Circle, the Surreal.tv team used a custom rig and GoPro camera. Justine explains that the crew had to hide and get out of the shot during every take, because all of the camera\u2019s surroundings are part of the video. \u201CIt sees absolutely everything.\u201D\n\nBut the fact that it captures so much is exactly the reason virtual reality is so exciting. \u201CIt\u2019s the future of sports, the future of concerts, it\u2019s going to be the future for a lot of people who may not be able to experience traveling, so it\u2019s going to be cool to see how it evolves over the next five years,&amp;quot; Justine says. She plans to apply the virtual reality concept to immersive gaming vlogs, develop interactive lifestyle videos, and even create an immersive music video for her dog (who\u2019s a DJ). \u201CI think as far as content goes, it\u2019s going to be fun to take vlogging to a whole other level.\u201D\n\nRelated:  5 Features From Samsung\u2019s New Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge That Put the iPhone to Shame\n\nCheck out Teen Vogue\u2019s February issue cover star, Zo\u00EB Kravitz.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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