Can't get enough dunks, three pointers, and last-second jumpers? Experience the NBA in a whole new way with the new NBA VR app, available on Daydream.

Catch up with highlights in your own virtual sports lounge or watch the NBA’s first original VR series, “House of Legends,” where NBA legends discuss everything from pop culture to the greatest moments of their career. The series tips off today with seven-time NBA Champion Robert Horry. New episodes featuring stars like Chauncey Billups and Baron Davis will debut regularly.

Daydream gives sports fans a new way to connect to the leagues, teams and players they care about most. The NBA VR app joins a lineup that already includes:

• NFL VR: Get access to the NFL Immersed series featuring 360° behind-the-scenes looks into the lives of players, coaches, cheerleaders, and even fans themselves as they prepare for game day.

• MLB.com Home Run Derby VR: Hit monster home runs with the Daydream controller in eight iconic MLB ballparks and bring home the ultimate Derby crown.

• NextVR: From NBA games and the Kentucky Derby, to the NFL and the US Open, experience your favorite sporting events live or revisit them through highlights.

You're just a download away from being closer than ever to the sporting events and athletes you love!

Recreating spatialized sound the way humans actually hear it can greatly improve the sense the immersion in any game or app experience. But for developers, battling with various unconnected spatial audio tools can be both confusing and time-consuming. We’ve worked closely with Firelight Technologies and Audiokinetic, creators of the popular audio engines FMOD and Wwise, on a suite of streamlined spatial audio plugins that make it possible to add high-quality, spatialized audio into your apps across desktop, mobile, and VR platforms—including Android, iOS, Windows, OSX and Linux.

The new Google VR FMOD and Wwise plugin suite provides all the features developers need to create highly immersive spatial audio experiences:

• Highly accurate rendering of large numbers of spatialized sound sources.

• Distance, elevation and occlusion effects, all at minimal overhead.

• Room acoustics that react in real-time to the listener’s location, smoothly transitioning between different environments.

• Playback of immersive ambisonic sound fields, using the same technology that powers spatial audio on YouTube.

These plugins work seamlessly with the FMOD and Wwise integrations into Unity and Unreal Engine. The Unity integration provides an intuitive way to control room acoustics that react instantly to changes in your app or game environments. Changes to room sizes, material types and object positions are all reflected in real time through the Google VR spatialization engine to produce lifelike sound.

Up until today, our spatialization algorithms were primarily optimized for smartphones to have minimal impact on the primary CPU, where mobile apps do most of their work. Now running on desktop PCs, the new FMOD and Wwise spatial audio plugins offer faster performance, spatializing greater numbers of high-quality sound sources, while continuing to minimize impact to your CPU budget.

Recreating spatialized sound the way humans actually hear it can greatly improve the sense the immersion in any game or app experience. But for developers, battling with various unconnected spatial audio tools can be both confusing and time-consuming. We’ve worked closely with Firelight Technologies and Audiokinetic, creators of the popular audio engines FMOD and Wwise, on a suite of streamlined spatial audio plugins that make it possible to add high-quality, spatialized audio into your apps across desktop, mobile, and VR platforms—including Android, iOS, Windows, OSX and Linux.

The new Google VR FMOD and Wwise plugin suite provides all the features developers need to create highly immersive spatial audio experiences:

• Highly accurate rendering of large numbers of spatialized sound sources.

• Distance, elevation and occlusion effects, all at minimal overhead.

• Room acoustics that react in real-time to the listener’s location, smoothly transitioning between different environments.

• Playback of immersive ambisonic sound fields, using the same technology that powers spatial audio on YouTube.

These plugins work seamlessly with the FMOD and Wwise integrations into Unity and Unreal Engine. The Unity integration provides an intuitive way to control room acoustics that react instantly to changes in your app or game environments. Changes to room sizes, material types and object positions are all reflected in real time through the Google VR spatialization engine to produce lifelike sound.

Up until today, our spatialization algorithms were primarily optimized for smartphones to have minimal impact on the primary CPU, where mobile apps do most of their work. Now running on desktop PCs, the new FMOD and Wwise spatial audio plugins offer faster performance, spatializing greater numbers of high-quality sound sources, while continuing to minimize impact to your CPU budget.

Recreating spatialized sound the way humans actually hear it can greatly improve the sense the immersion in any game or app experience. But for developers, battling with various unconnected spatial audio tools can be both confusing and time-consuming. We’ve worked closely with Firelight Technologies and Audiokinetic, creators of the popular audio engines FMOD and Wwise, on a suite of streamlined spatial audio plugins that make it possible to add high-quality, spatialized audio into your apps across desktop, mobile, and VR platforms—including Android, iOS, Windows, OSX and Linux.

The new Google VR FMOD and Wwise plugin suite provides all the features developers need to create highly immersive spatial audio experiences:

• Highly accurate rendering of large numbers of spatialized sound sources.

• Distance, elevation and occlusion effects, all at minimal overhead.

• Room acoustics that react in real-time to the listener’s location, smoothly transitioning between different environments.

• Playback of immersive ambisonic sound fields, using the same technology that powers spatial audio on YouTube.

These plugins work seamlessly with the FMOD and Wwise integrations into Unity and Unreal Engine. The Unity integration provides an intuitive way to control room acoustics that react instantly to changes in your app or game environments. Changes to room sizes, material types and object positions are all reflected in real time through the Google VR spatialization engine to produce lifelike sound.

Up until today, our spatialization algorithms were primarily optimized for smartphones to have minimal impact on the primary CPU, where mobile apps do most of their work. Now running on desktop PCs, the new FMOD and Wwise spatial audio plugins offer faster performance, spatializing greater numbers of high-quality sound sources, while continuing to minimize impact to your CPU budget.

Editor’s Note: Support for Origin Trials of WebVR launched in Chrome M56. WebVR allows web developers to build VR experiences with a single web app that can reach people through all compatible browsers and VR headsets like Daydream View.

We’re exploring some of the early WebVR content that’s available now, starting today with the critically-acclaimed documentary Bear 71 VR, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. We caught up with Loc Dao, Chief Digital Officer of NFB, to explore why his team chose WebVR.

“The train took me by surprise. I had cubs to defend, and it took me by surprise.

I did what comes naturally.

I roared. And then I charged.”

Bear 71 originally launched as a Flash site in 2012. Since Flash is no longer supported in some browsers, we were eager to explore WebVR, both as a way to preserve the project’s legacy and a chance to stretch the experience of the story. If the film could be narrated from the perspective of the bear, what else was possible?

The documentary was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Google, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Doclab and Sound and Vision. The result is a new experience: the magic of the original Bear 71, only more up close and personal. Using Chrome with a Daydream View headset, it was featured at IDFA and shown by Google at New Frontiers VR Bar at the Sundance Film Festival.

We were attracted to WebVR for a number of reasons. First, WebVR demonstrates that innovation on the web, in browsers like Chrome, is still possible. The National Film Board, which produced Bear 71, is a public institution — so we saw this as a chance to support the democratic web; using open web standards allows everyone to enjoy the experience and allows for maximal free expression. It made sense for the project, too. Bear 71 is a landmark interactive documentary, set in a 3D world, so it lends itself well to virtual reality.

To remake Bear 71 for WebVR, we rebuilt the site in HTML5 with three.js for multiple platforms — desktop, mobile and VR. For more details on the technical implementation, check out our in-depth case study.

This experience is live on the web, and we hope you can check it out!

Editor’s Note: Support for Origin Trials of WebVR launched in Chrome M56. WebVR allows web developers to build VR experiences with a single web app that can reach people through all compatible browsers and VR headsets like Daydream View.

We’re exploring some of the early WebVR content that’s available now, starting today with the critically-acclaimed documentary Bear 71 VR, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. We caught up with Loc Dao, Chief Digital Officer of NFB, to explore why his team chose WebVR.

“The train took me by surprise. I had cubs to defend, and it took me by surprise.

I did what comes naturally.

I roared. And then I charged.”

Bear 71 originally launched as a Flash site in 2012. Since Flash is no longer supported in some browsers, we were eager to explore WebVR, both as a way to preserve the project’s legacy and a chance to stretch the experience of the story. If the film could be narrated from the perspective of the bear, what else was possible?

The documentary was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Google, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Doclab and Sound and Vision. The result is a new experience: the magic of the original Bear 71, only more up close and personal. Using Chrome with a Daydream View headset, it was featured at IDFA and shown by Google at New Frontiers VR Bar at the Sundance Film Festival.

We were attracted to WebVR for a number of reasons. First, WebVR demonstrates that innovation on the web, in browsers like Chrome, is still possible. The National Film Board, which produced Bear 71, is a public institution — so we saw this as a chance to support the democratic web; using open web standards allows everyone to enjoy the experience and allows for maximal free expression. It made sense for the project, too. Bear 71 is a landmark interactive documentary, set in a 3D world, so it lends itself well to virtual reality.

To remake Bear 71 for WebVR, we rebuilt the site in HTML5 with three.js for multiple platforms — desktop, mobile and VR. For more details on the technical implementation, check out our in-depth case study.

This experience is live on the web, and we hope you can check it out!