VIRTUAL REALITY AND HISTORIC PLACES

CELEBRATING THE 5OTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

SPONSORS

Matthew Gibson, Director of Digital Initiatives, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Peter Hedlund, Lead Technologist, Encyclopedia Virginia

WHO WE ARE

SESSION OVERVIEW

  • How and why Encyclopedia Virginia captures 360° photography
  • How to discover/consume this imagery
    • browser
    • mobile
    • VR
  • Techniques for capturing 360º photography
  • Audio annotation of panoramas + VR
  • Hands on with tools/content creation
     

PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY

 

 

  • Google Street View Mobile App

 

 

  • Evolution of Applications

 

STREET VIEW

A HUMANISTIC CONTEXT

A HUMANISTIC CONTEXT

STREET VIEW APP

UGC VS. "SEE INSIDE"

NEW APPLICATIONS

HISTORICAL PRESERVATION & ADVOCACY

NEW APPLICATIONS

HISTORICAL PRESERVATION & ADVOCACY

EXERCISE

Getting Familiar with the Google Street View app

EXERCISE

Find a panorama with the UVa Rotunda in it.

 

*BONUS*

Locate a panorama showing the arena where UVa men and women's teams play basketball (Hint: it's the same name as the Led Zeppelin bass player)

VIEW PANORAMAS IN VR MODE

CREATING PANORAMAS

  • Mobile Phone Camera
    • + Always with you
    • + Depending on the phone's camera, can be quite good image quality
    • - hard to create a seamless image
  • Dedicated 360° Camera (Ricoh Theta) 
    • + quick and easy
    • + relatively affordable($350)
    • - image quality not as good as a DSLR
  • DSLR w/ fisheye lens
    • + Great image quality
    • - Expensive equipment ($1,500 - $2,000)
    • - You have to stitch the images yourself

CREATING PANORAMAS

With an Android/iPhone + Google's Street View app

 

CREATING PANORAMAS

With an Android/iPhone + Google's Street View app

 

CREATING PANORAMAS

With a DSLR camera

 

ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

Story Spheres - embed, share link, view in VR

EXERCISE

1. Connect your phone to the Ricoh Theta Camera & take picture

POWER

WiFi

EXERCISE

1. Connect your phone to the Ricoh Theta Camera & take picture

EXERCISE

1. Connect your phone to the Ricoh Theta Camera & take picture

EXERCISE

1. Share your photo to download to laptop

EXERCISE

  1. Go out into the world and take a few shots with the Ricoh camera
  2. Think about some points of interest to explain with audio
  3. Find Peter, Matthew or Kelley to record your audio
  4. Share your panoramic photograph with the group via email
  5. Download the audio clip(s) to your hard drives

 

ALTERNATE: Get a sample panorama and audio clip to practice with.

 

 

https://virginia.box.com/v/pano

EXERCISE

  1. Go to https://www.storyspheres.com
  2. Sign In with your Google account
  3. Choose "Create" from the top left menu
  4. Name your StorySphere
  5. Upload your panoramic image
  6. Upload at least one MP3 audio file
  7. Click "Next" to arrange where the audio file will be positioned on the panorama
  8. Position the audio using AngleX and AngleY sliders
  9. Adjust the audio volume using slider
  10. Give the audio clip(s) a name
  11. Make sure "click_to_play" is checked

ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

Story Spheres - embed, share link, view in VR

ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

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ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION

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PUBLISHING PANORAMAS

Make connections between adjacent panoramas

  • After the panos have been published you can connect adjacent locations

PUBLISHING PANORAMAS

Make connections between adjacent panorama

NON GOOGLE HOSTING
 

Other ways to host panos online

Human Ties Workshop

By Encyclopedia Virginia

Human Ties Workshop

Mapping the humanities.

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