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Glastonbury is arguably the biggest music weekend of the year and so tickets are in high demand, often leaving plenty disappointed by the time the festival rolls around.
But, EE – which happens to be one of the festival’s partners – had a 360 camera on site to shoot video that can be viewed in virtual reality (and panned around on desktop).
The result is even if you weren’t there, you can now get a taste of being beneath the giant spider at Arcadia, watching your favourite band on the Other Stage or dancing until the sun comes up in the madness that is Shangri-La.
The telecoms firm, which is also behind the temporary 4G WiFi network that is used to keep everyone online at Glasto, also had some impressive stats from the site.
A total of 25 terabytes of data were used over the five days – up 130% on last year. For some perspective that is the equivalent of downloading Coldplay’s Hymn For The Weekend around six million times. Around 5 terabytes of that data were used for uploading to social media, a figure EE says equates to around 22 million selfies.
It wasn’t just the bands getting people talking either, though Coldplay’s Pyramid Stage set on Sunday night was one of the busiest times for the network, but so was Friday morning as the result of the EU referendum was announced.
The official Glastonbury app from EE was also accessed more than four million times during the festival, with over 40,000 location pins dropped and three million acts favourited.
