{"id":660,"date":"2016-11-16T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T00:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/?p=660"},"modified":"2016-11-16T19:46:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T00:46:39","slug":"explorer-1116-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/2016\/11\/16\/explorer-1116-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Explorer 11\/16 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What each individual in the group worked on over the last week:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We all spent time together in capturing 360 videos, uploading them to facebook, 360fly director, oculus video.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We also tested to see if we should create 60 video player in Unity and play the captured 360 videos there but it makes it \u00a0more complicated than \u00a0we thought.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A description of the accomplishments made<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finished our exploratory analysis on how to use 360Fly, Oculus Rift with different settings <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Able to get some kind of communication with the Campus\/Visitor desk. Awaiting reply. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Figured out that there is no really easy way to fix the orientation of the video captured using 360fly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A description of the problems encountered (this section may be short for this week as we are still very early)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our orientation of the 360 cameras were off, the 360fly camera tends to distort the video when being watched using the Oculus. We feel that the Theta camera will avoid this problem as it permits a full 360 capture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tried uploading the video to youtube, but we need to purchase virtual desktop app to watch youtube videos in oculus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tried uploading 360 video in facebook and linking facebook account to oculus rift since facebook does some processing for the videos like adding metadata and sphere \u00a0, but the uploaded video doesn\u2019t show up in the video app of oculus<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tried the 360 fly camera with tripod \u00a0as well to see if that was the issue for orientation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plans for the upcoming week<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get the theta 360 camera and start capturing the videos<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finalize a conversation with the Campus &amp; Visitor office ASAP. Delays in communications have contributed to a delay in video capture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plan the potential places where footage will happen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Need a multidirectional microphone given that the 360fly microphone was weak in picking up audio<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ask for a 360 drone? (To provide an aerial 360 view of campus?)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least one piece of media related to your work (image, video, audio, etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tripod 360 video &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B_j0XywByLeKOUhNLXFkbTdPaGM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B_j0XywByLeKOUhNLXFkbTdPaGM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What each individual in the group worked on over the last week: We all spent time together in capturing 360 videos, uploading them to facebook, 360fly director, oculus video. 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