You Shall Go to The Ball: The Fifty Shades Darker Experience in VR

Alice Bonasio
4 min readFeb 17, 2017

We’ve seen a lot of folks jumping onto the 360 video bandwagon in the past year as commercial platforms like YouTube have started to support the format natively. What’s interesting about the Fifty Shades Darker experience that was release this week, however, is that — unlike most film-based “companion pieces,” which come across very much as an afterthought — Universal…

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Alice Bonasio

Technology writer for FastCo, Quartz, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Wired + more. Consultant specializing in VR #MixedReality and Strategic Communications