Explorers

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  • Your team name –  Explorers
  • Your group members

-Mushahid Alam

-Ekta

-Ivan

  • A description of what you want to do (1-3 paragraphs)
    • What is the purpose of the project
      • The purpose of our project is to provide a virtual tour of the campus to the students. Especially it will be helpful for international students since they cannot visit the campus before joining.
    • What will people experience
      • It will provide them an experience as if they are on the campus following a tour guide. Getting to know history of UW madison. Achievements of each of the departments
    • What take-aways do you want the user to have
      • Experience of being at UW-Madison campus
      • Getting to know different departments and their achievements
      • Significance of important buildings in campus(if we get related videos )
      • UW – Madison
      • Badger Football team history
  • Concept art (at least one image)
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  • What equipment you plan to use
    • What equipment do you need that you don’t have
      • 360 video camera
      • Oculus rift/Google cardboard ( Not sure between these 2)
  • A description of what you think you know how to do (as a group)
    • Programming experience by all 3 us us
    • Slight knowledge of Video editing
  • A description of things you are less sure you know how to do (as a group)
    • Showing a 360 video / 360 images in oculus rift/cardboard
    • Integrating a guide voice in the background of the 360 videos
    • Creating an avatar for the virtual guide( not sure if this is going to be in the scope of the project).
    • Showing a video inside a 360 photo.
  • What are your first steps
    • Talk to campus tour people on what places do they cover and path
    • Capture 360 photos/videos at different locations in campus once we receive the device
    • Once we receive Oculus Rift, we would like to see existing VR tours of other universities so that we can compare and clearly define the scope of this project. Lot of universities already have their VR tour on this site – http://www.youvisit.com/virtual-reality-360-experience