DROP EVERYTHING AND DOWNLOAD... Facebook 360 for Gear VR

Time was, getting a 360° experience meant going outside, picking a spot to stand in and simply turning around. What a chilly waste of time. Now, with the advent of stellar smartphone cameras and nifty stitching software, 360° photos and videos are ten a penny.

Panoramic effects don’t seem quite so astounding on a flat little phone screen,

£free / Android though – which is precisely why Facebook has announced the Facebook 360 app for Samsung Gear VR. Yippee! In short, download the app and you’ll get a streamlined carousel of 360° content from your timeline – some of it is going to be quite ropey, of course, but access like this can only pave the way for better video content to come.