{"id":970,"date":"2016-12-18T23:36:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-12-18T23:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T05:36:32","slug":"explorers-final-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/2016\/12\/18\/explorers-final-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Explorers Final Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Motivation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is the goal of your project?<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The goal of the project was to provide the VR user with increased presence and immersive experience when touring a location at UW-Madison. Many international and out-of-state students may find it difficult to visit UW-Madison in person due to many factors. With this in mind, we decided to create a personalized tour of campus so anyone who is interested in experiencing the environment can do so in an accessible manner. There is no need for expensive HMDs, Google Cardboard and a mobile phone would suffice. Any alumni and prospective student will be fascinated at the feeling of being on campus during a normal winter semester in Madison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Contributions<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a Group<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shot 360 videos and 360 photos at 30 different locations on the campus. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exploratory analysis and testing of 360 Fly<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decided the scope of the project and proposed ideas to fulfill the goal of the project<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow up with Campus Relations Team<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\">Edited videos in order to merge the two spheres in the raw 360 videos captured using Ricoh theta using Theta UVC Blender<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Improved the quality of videos by adding metadata and using Adobe Premiere Pro.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wrote scripts providing information\u00a0about each place on the campus and recorded the audio using audio recorder borrowed from library.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Integrated text and audio in all the 360 videos using Adobe Premiere Pro<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stitched various videos together like in CS department, Memorial Union etc<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tested the edited videos in Oculus Rift.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Created presentation for project demo.<\/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\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Made edited videos compatible to Youtube 360<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Added videos to YouTube and made accessible to the public.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Constructed and modified the Google Tour Builder, making it easy for users to see a Google Map of all the 360 video locations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Outcomes<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Describe the operation of your final project. What does it do and how does it work?<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our final project includes ~30 videos and ~20 photos of various hotspots around the UW campus. After editing the videos with campus narrations and text (wherever required), the videos provide the user with a detailed insight of campus and the freedom to observe the captured environment. The user can select a location on the map from interactive UI or click on next button to experience that particular location<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How well did your project meet your original project description and goals?<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our project exactly met the original project description and met mostly all the goals. Only thing it didn\u2019t meet as we had thought initially was that a tour guide would be speaking in front of the camera, due to shut down from campus relations team. But we had a fallback plan set already. We recorded and integrated audio in 360 videos.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a team, describe what are your feelings about your project? Are you happy, content, frustrated, etc.?<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are pretty much happy with our project. We not only met the requirements of the project but also exceeded the expectations. Like<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google cardboard as another distribution system apart from Oculus Rift. This became possible by making videos compatible and uploading them to Youtube.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: The cardboard option appears on the videos when watched in phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An interactive UI like google map on which user can select a particular location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Integrating text in 360 videos which was a challenge as well. Proper editing and care needed since it stretched and compressed based on the location on the sphere.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Problems encountered<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What were the largest hurdles you encountered in your project and how did you overcome these obstacles?<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adding text: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It required a lot of testing and editing since 360 video is on a sphere and the text stretched or compressed based on the location on the sphere( in Chazen Museum or Engineering Drive videos)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Improving the quality of the videos: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quality of the videos captured through Ricoh Theta camera isn\u2019t that great. We improved it a bit by adding metadata and editing them in Adobe Premiere Pro but still it is not upto the mark.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shut down from campus relations team<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We didn\u2019t get a tour guide and had to go back to our fall back plan. We recorded the audio and integrated it in 360 videos using Adobe Premiere Pro.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Snow Time<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: It required a lot of determination and effort to capture videos at approximately 30 locations during snow. It took us around 7 hours from 9am- 4pm continuously to cover all the locations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acquiring the right Camera: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We couldn\u2019t capture 360 video for initial couple of weeks due to unavailability of the right camera. Videos captured in 360fly were actually 240 degree videos, hence they were not compatible with Oculus.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Next Step4<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Add tour guide by taking permission from Campus relations and the upper hierarchy <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Add other distribution systems like Facebook 360 and Samsung Gear<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Integrate Google Street view and let user navigate through campus and let users select videos available at certain location<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Add departmental videos with department head talking to incoming students<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Present the project as a prototype to Campus Relations Team<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Video of the Project in Action<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Present a video that demonstrates your project in action<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Links:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google Tour with map : <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tourbuilder.withgoogle.com\/tour\/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgIDAusfR-QkM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/tourbuilder.withgoogle.com\/tour\/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgIDAusfR-QkM<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube Account with raw &amp; narrated videos: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC55Ti_T9hC_YV5tudfKJa-Q\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC55Ti_T9hC_YV5tudfKJa-Q<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">360 photos which were shot are present in the tour, but they don\u2019t come as 360 photos. Here is the link of raw 360 photos shot &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/0B_j0XywByLeKYUR3OFZPbmo0c2c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/0B_j0XywByLeKYUR3OFZPbmo0c2c<\/span> <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: Use ricoh theta app \u00a0to view the 360 photos- <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theta360.com\/en\/support\/download\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/theta360.com\/en\/support\/download\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motivation &nbsp; What is the goal of your project? &nbsp; The goal of the project was to provide the VR user with increased presence and immersive experience when touring a location at UW-Madison. Many international and out-of-state students may find it difficult to visit UW-Madison in person due to many factors. 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