So YouTube now supports 360° spherical videos. They work similarly to Google Street View or photospheres, where you can pan around in an immersive ball of imagery. Using a camera like the Ricoh Theta or 360 Cam, you can record these videos yourself, although it's not cheap.

What I am really interested in is recording RCT3 or real life roller coasters with this. I think it would be really awesome to be able to look any direction you want while watching a coaster, just like you're really there. With an oculus rift or another VR headset, it could get seriously awesome (and disorienting). I'm not sure how you would be able to record a video like that in RCT3, but maybe you could program an application that stitches multiple videos recorded at different angles, similar to the way the 360 degree cameras work. What's your opinion on this? I think this opens a whole new world of possibilities, even if they have nothing to do with roller coasters.



^The panning functionality of this video is currently only supported on Google Chrome or the YouTube app for Android. If you don't use that, it will show up as a flat image, and won't be as awesome.

I think it's a possibility. A great one. Oculus Rift supports No Limits coaster's which is amazing so for YouTube to open up this feature, I'm sure developers are already on their way to making it a possibility to download tools online or build into their development.