May Day Protest

Recreating the experience: An experiment in virtual reality journalism

By ILINA GHOSH Staff Reporter Canadian Press photo editor Marie-Espérance Cerda was in the midst of this year’s violent May Day protests in Montreal and her virtual reality coverage of the event allows audiences to share in the experience. Cerda’s experiment in virtual reality journalism plunges the user into a three-dimensional world, entirely filling the user’s field of view with…