Never mind that it involves fully restored armored vehicles and 40 battlefield re-enactors, it's the sweeping vistas — and we mean sweeping — that will blow you away.

If you haven't seen 360-degree video yet, you're in for a treat. Just do yourself a favor and watch this on your phone. And have fun looking around while you're watching.

For the hard-core tank buffs out there, here's the order of battle: Soviet T-34-76 tank, Soviet BT-7 tank, German PzKpfW III tank, Stug III tank destroyer, 45mm artillery, and ZIS-3 artillery.

The video was shot near the Stalin Line Museum in Belarus and involved three groups of professional re-enactors, say officials with Wargaming.net, which is largely based in Russia.

It's all about what Wargaming's special projects chief Matt Daly calls "rich heritage storytelling."

"We have a massive audience who are quite engaged by the subject matter of military history, and we like to think that the fidelity and depth of our games just serve to fuel this engagement," Daly tells OFFduty.

Using new 360-degree video gear to capture it all, Wagaming.net gathered four tanks, 40 infantry reenactors, artillery and a flight of warplanes in Belarus to recreate a World War II battle that you can actually get in the middle of.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Wargaming.net

"VR sits firmly at a sweet spot between interactivity, education and telepresence," he says. "This makes it a perfect medium for conveying historical content, directly in situ, to our large audience of digital natives and historical enthusiasts."

Indeed, VR — short for virtual reality — is just hitting an exciting new crest, both with cutting-edge cameras and graphics engines that can capture and create it all, as well as motion-sensitive viewers that range from simple smartphones to more immersive goggle-like devices such as the soon-to-be released Oculus Rift.

"A number of us have been involved in virtual worlds and VR for many years, and once the VR 360 video production technology caught up with at least some basic version of what we'd been envisioning for a long time, we called up some of our closest friends in the military history world and got cracking," Daly says.

The early results are impressive.

This latest video comes on the heels of some proof-of-concept tours aboard vehicles at The Tank Museum in Dorset, England.

Using new 360-degree video gear to capture it all, Wagaming.net gathered four tanks, 40 infantry reenactors, artillery and a flight of warplanes in Belarus to recreate a World War II battle that you can actually get in the middle of.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Wargaming.net

Stay tuned for even more in-the-thick-of-it action, says Daly.

"We're running through a number of concepts right now, talking to a couple of high-profile thought leaders in the space about partnerships that would take what we've already done with VR 360 video and refine it, augment it, make it even more engaging. We're quite happy with what we've accomplished, and even more excited with how much more space there is to play."

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