Those ultra-widescreen 360-degree videos being enjoyed with virtual-reality headsets are coming to Facebook’s news feeds.

You don’t have to don VR gear to view the 360 videos. Instead, you move the mouse on your computer or shift the phone, and “you can choose what angle you want to see it from,” Facebook notes.

Facebook, which made a $2 billion bet on virtual reality by purchasing the Oculus VR company in 2014, is launching Wednesday with VR content from the upcoming Star Wars film, the Discovery Channel, GoPro, basketball star LeBron James, Saturday Night Live and Vice.

The new videos are launching on desktop and Android phones; Apple devices will come later in the year, Facebook says.

Facebook isn’t alone in wanting to showcase 360-degree videos on the Web. YouTube has a popular VR channel, #360Video, which this week launched a new video promoting the return of NBC’s Heroes TV series. Most videos are from filmmakers showcasing their spherical experiments, in everything from tours of the Grand Canyon to kite flying in New York.

To create 360 videos, filmmakers rig a whole bunch of cameras together to record all 360 degrees of a scene, and then stitch them together in video-editing software. GoPro recently announced a new 16-camera 360 rig called Odyssey that sells for $15,000.

On a much smaller scale, several one-camera, affordable setups for 360 degree are starting to flood the market, like Ricoh’s new Theta, which sells for around $350. Google has a low-cost Cardboard VR reader for under $15; Samsung has the $199 Gear VR viewer.

Source: USA TODAY and The Verge