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Saturday Night Live 360° Videos

Last week, Saturday Night Live posted to YouTube a 360° video of the Edge of Destiny sketch that let you watch from behind the scenes and change your viewing angle by dragging the video on desktops, moving a mobile device around in 3D space, or, if you’re wearing a VR headset, moving your head around. I found it a neat way to experience the show and to appreciate how much effort goes into putting it on. (It’s especially impressive on Apple Vision Pro, where it truly felt like I was standing in the studio.) This particular sketch exposed how the “fall down the stairs” bit was staged, which is why I thought they shared it. But SNL has been uploading 360° videos for several years (here’s Celebrity Jeopardy from SNL’s 40th Anniversary Special in 2015, for example). It looks like new 360° videos are added every few weeks, but beyond a playlist for SNL50, I can’t find a complete collection. This YouTube query (“Saturday Night Live” filtered on “360°”) should find most of them.

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