The two national titles are to launch their own virtual reality apps.
The VR apps will provide users with 360 videos and a scaled-down VR experience.
The first VR experience launched by The Economist used computer generated graphics to recreate a destroyed museum in Mosul, Iraq.
Users of the VR app will be asked whether they have a headset - the content they are shown depends on their answer.
Tom Standage, deputy editor at The Economist said: In launching it for public release we knew the experience needed simplifying, it needed a straightforward narrative path, rather than a full interactive experience.
The Guardian has launched a VR app separate from it's main app, as it was too technically complicated to merge the two.
Using a 6x9 experience, The Guardian's VR app can be used either with or without Google Cardboard.
Co-founder and CEO of Visualise, the company which helped to develop The Economist's VR app, Henry Stuart, said: Its so that people can view their content in a trusted and controlled environment. Its already a difficult process looking for good content on existing platforms like Facebook 360 and YouTube 360. Theres a lot of crap, and theres going to be even more because of user-generated content.
The Economist has yet to find a way to monetize VR.
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