Flickr has plans for a dedicated virtual reality section

The demonstrations, according to Engadget, were conducted on an Oculus DK 2 headset that was hooked up to a PC. Kelloggs emerged as a supporter of the virtual reality headsets when it started selling Nutri-Gain boxes that you can fold into cardboard VR headsets. In this early build users looked down at a pair of pink and blue balls for a few moments to skip to the next image. The company is still one of the largest purveyor of such services, despite the market now awash with competition and they have plans to expand their technical scope soon, leveraging virtual reality technology. Fan has only been working on the project for a couple of weeks so support is only currently available for the Oculus Rift, but he hopes to add the Samsung Gear VR as well as other VR HMD’s down the line.

As for whether there are a ton of 360-degree photos out there, he tells me that it’s actually a fairly burgeoning community.

Such photo content is becoming increasingly common as a new generation of 360 cameras such as the Ricoh Theta, as well software like Google’s intuitive photosphere stitching make it easy for consumers to create 360 visuals. The feature already includes eye control as a means of advancing through a slideshow of 360-degree VR photos, however, Fan doesn’t want to stop there.

Even with those constraints, the 360° group on Flickr currently has over two thousand members, who have collectively uploaded over eighteen thousand photos to date. He says that there’ll eventually be an Explore Section on Flickr devoted to 360-degree panoramic photos. He hopes to roll out the initial stages of Flickr VR to the general public by early next year.