It lasts just over a minute and offers a stripped down version of the familiar kart racing experience, yet the technical trickery behind it is far more interesting than its size suggests. This is not an official Nintendo release or a complete browser port of Mario Kart. It is a YouTube video twisted into behaving like a game, and that may be even cooler. The experiment uses YouTube’s 360 degree spherical video feature, which lets viewers move their perspective around footage instead of...
