SINGAPORE -- If you're Filipino and working abroad, get ready to feel homesick. YouTube has released what it claims is the first 360-degree video shot in the Philippines, and threw in as much local iconography as it could for good measure.
The video, which features musicians playing an ode to their home country, has been viewed nearly 2,000 times at time of writing. As the performers sing in Tagalog, the viewer can move around the video and find TV screens displaying other Filipinos.
"We invited Pinoys from all over the world to tell us what they miss most about the Philippines, and turned their responses into a song," Google said in a statement.
The video spotlights performers Sponge Cola, ItchyWorms, Kjwan and singer Ebe Dancel, as well as YouTube star Mikey Bustos who lives in Canada.
"Thank you Google for choosing me to be included in this giant collab with the Filipinos around the world and amazing Filipino artists. I miss my family so much," Bustos said in a statement.
According to employment statistics from the Philippines government, 1.8 million Filipino workers were deployed overseas in 2014.
The world's most popular video site started supporting 360-degree video back in March. Users on Chrome browsers, or on Android phones with the YouTube app, will be able to interact with the video and spin the viewpoint around a scene as the video plays.
This isn't the first Asian 360-degree video. Korean boyband Infinite released one in July, racking up hits to become the fourth-most watched video in America and sixth in the world that month.