{"id":730,"date":"2016-11-27T19:38:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T00:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/?p=730"},"modified":"2016-11-29T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T17:09:30","slug":"the-explorers-project-update-2711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/2016\/11\/27\/the-explorers-project-update-2711\/","title":{"rendered":"The Explorers Project Update &#8211; 27\/11"},"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\">Ekta and Mushahid: <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captured videos using Ricoh Theta camera. Each video has two spheres. The left sphere shows the rear part and the right sphere shows the front part.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edited the captured videos in order to merge the two spheres so that they can be watched smoothly in VR headset(Oculus Rift)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also manipulated the videos by injecting meta data to improve the quality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uploaded the 360 videos on youtube so as to understand how it will look to the end user. \u00a0For this we had to first make our video compatible so that it can be seen in youtube.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ivan: <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Followed up with campus relation team, and they have asked for timeline of our project.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">He has replied back asking for a tour before the end of this semester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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\">We were able to finish our POC of capturing perfect 360 videos and watching them in \u00a0VR without any problems. Now we can start capturing videos of the campus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Successfully uploaded 360 video on youtube, facebook etc<\/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\"><b>Video Quality<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: The quality of the video is good but we still think that it can be improved by exploring other options in the settings. Unfortunately we didn\u2019t have the password of theta wifi and couldn\u2019t explore the options this week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Tripod<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We need a better tripod for the camera to start capturing videos of the campus. Ricoh theta doesn\u2019t \u00a0fit properly on current tripod<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Audio<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: The audio is perfect till the person is in a closed area and standing right in front of the camera. We may need to use a voice recorder while capturing the actual video in the campus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Finding out the perfect height of the camera while shooting was challenging. This is important since we don\u2019t the end user to feel uncomfortable or sick while watching the video in VR headset. For that we captured multiple videos by placing the camera at different heights. <\/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\">Capture videos with tour guide from campus tour department standing in front of the camera. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If audio is not upto the mark, use a voice recorder and embed it in the video<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stitch all the videos captured and have a linear video of tour guide explaining different parts of the campus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Test out the video with tour guide in Oculus.<\/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>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Original Video &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BIo5XxOBJYQ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/BIo5XxOBJYQ<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Video(with editing and metadata) &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRVKkslFaQo&amp;t=1s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRVKkslFaQo&amp;t=1s<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What each individual in the group worked on over the last week Ekta and Mushahid: Captured videos using Ricoh Theta camera. 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