In our favourite use of Facebook 360 video yet, here’s a Hamilton song! “Wait For It” was performed as part of a promo for this year’s Tony awards. 360 videos are created with a camera system that simultaneously records all 360 degrees of a scene. Viewers can pan and rotate a 360 video’s perspective to watch it from different angles. Unfortunately, it won’t work on Safari or Internet Explorer, so break out Chrome to watch the above video.
These videos have a “360 video” label in the lower left-hand corner and are viewable on computer, iOS devices and Android devices.
What is Hamilton anyway?
If you haven’t heard about it, you’ve probably been living under a rock… Hamilton is the hottest Broadway musical right now, with sell-out performances. Created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, it’s a modern hip-hop musical about America’s Founding Fathers. You can find its soundtrack on Spotify, which is probably the closest that most of us will actually get to seeing it, sadly. It picked up 11 awards at this year’s Tony, and was nominated for 16. For Lin-Manuel, the viral success of the show has opened a lot of doors, from rapping with Obama at the White House to writing music for Disney’s upcoming animated film Moana.