VR videos

Google searches for more eyeballs with live, VR videos

The videos can be viewed on standard personal computers or with virtual reality headsets via the YouTube app on Android phones that use the company's Cardboard technology.

YouTube has had 360-degree videos since March 2015. With the upgrade, people can now tune-in to live broadcasts of events like sports games and music concerts and turn their head to look around them. The video and audio changes as they move.