In 2015, YouTube was the first online platform to enable the option of uploading and playing 360-degree videos on the Internet. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the consumption of these videos rebounded. To conclude this, we performed a quantitative analysis with the data from searches for ‘360 video’ on YouTube from the four countries most affected by COVID-19 during the first months of the pandemic: the USA, the UK, Spain and Italy. Even though the analysis of variance (ANOVA), according to Fisher’s F (0.48 < 2.62), shows there is a correlation between searches in the USA, the UK, Spain and Italy for the past 10 years, the tendency changes when the first months of the pandemic are analysed. We conclude that each country’s restrictions, by which citizens were forced to stay at home during different dates, depending on the country, may have influenced the consumption of 360-degree videos on YouTube.

2015 年，YouTube 是第一个支持在互联网上上传和播放 360 度视频的在线平台。2020 年，在 COVID-19 大流行期间，这些视频的消费量反弹。为了得出结论，我们对大流行最初几个月受 COVID-19 影响最严重的四个国家（美国、英国、西班牙和意大利）在 YouTube 上搜索“360 度视频”的数据进行了定量分析。即使方差分析 (ANOVA)，根据 Fisher's F(0.48 < 2.62)，表明过去 10 年美国、英国、西班牙和意大利的搜索量之间存在相关性，分析大流行的前几个月时，趋势会发生变化。我们得出的结论是，每个国家/地区的公民被迫在不同日期呆在家里的限制可能影响了 YouTube 上 360 度视频的消费。