Web giants like-YouTube and Facebook have been showing off a slate of 360-degree videos in recent months, using the format for-Christmas specials and-iOS News Feeds, but the clips have so far been conspicuously absent from one format-—--Apple TV. The network feels more like Vimeo than YouTube: it accepts video submissions from its users, but partners with big names including National Geographic,-the Wall Street Journal, and Mountain Dew, curating 360-degree videos of everything from shark dives and car races to chicken farms and football games. This new Apple TV app is just the latest of the company's releases — Littlstar apps already exist for-iOS,-Android, and Samsung's Gear VR.



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