Virtual Tours & Virtual Reality
VIRTUAL REALITY AND HISTORIC PLACES
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
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How to discover/consume this imagery
- browser
- mobile
- VR
- Techniques for capturing 360º photography
- Audio annotation of panoramas + VR
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Hands on with tools/content creation
PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY
- Google Street View (web) - Anne Spencer House & Garden example
- Google Street View Mobile App
- Embedded with context (Encyclopedia Virginia)
- Google imagery vs. User Generated Content (UGC) - downtown Charlottesville example
PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY
PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY
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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 a DSLR camera
EXERCISE
1. Connect you phone to the Ricoh Theta Camera & take picture
EXERCISE
1. Share your photo to download to laptop
EXERCISE THREE
- Go to https://www.storyspheres.com
- Sign In with your Google account
- Choose "Create" from the top left menu
- Name your StorySphere
- Upload one panoramic image
- Upload at least one MP3 audio file
- Click "Next" to arrange where the audio file will be positioned on the panorama
- Position the audio using AngleX and AngleY sliders
- Adjust the audio volume using slider
- Give the audio clip(s) a name
- Make sure "click_to_play" is checked
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
ADDING AUDIO ANNOTATION
Story Spheres - embed, share link, view in VR
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AVOID GOOGLE
Other ways to host panos online
- 360 Cities
- Pano2VR (example)
- Flickr (example)
- Facebook (example)
Copy of Human Ties Workshop
By Encyclopedia Virginia
Copy of Human Ties Workshop
Peter's edits that he doesn't want to lose. Let's keep editing the other one.
