Category: Experiments

YouTube

After discovering that Google has removed the VR capabilities from the IOS iPhone versions of its Apps, I looked around for alternatives, and stumbled upon a solution on YouTube, ironically also a company owned by Google.
And it actually looks to be the better solution, because its great reach.

And this version is a series of linked photo-spheres, including one doctored with Affinity and containing a video.

YouTube Smartphone App

This Photo-Sphere can opened on a regular smartphone for a full-screen VR effect, and using an inexpensive VR-headset such as Google-Cardboard, for an even better immersive experience.

youtu.be/ZCl9QlGTalU

VR Headset

Google Cardboard VR headset

YouTube

After discovering that Google has removed the VR capabilities from the IOS iPhone versions of its Apps, I looked around for alternatives, and stumbled upon a solution on YouTube, ironically also a company owned by Google.
And it actually looks to be the better solution, because its great reach.

And this version is doctored with Affinity and contains a video.

Photo-Sphere: Paul Löbe Building

I have photoShopped various images into a photo-sphere including a secondary video – in the YouTube version – to see in how far the technique would be suitable in creating a realistic VR gallery.

YouTube Smartphone App

This Photo-Sphere can opened on a regular smartphone for a full-screen VR effect, and using an inexpensive VR-headset such as Google-Cardboard, for an even better immersive experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GAXTs0KDqw

VR Headset

Google Cardboard VR headset

YouTube

After discovering that Google has removed the VR capabilities from the IOS iPhone versions of its Apps, I looked around for alternatives, and stumbled upon a solution on YouTube, ironically also a company owned by Google.
And it actually looks to be the better solution, because its great reach.

Photo-Sphere: Paul Löbe Building

I have photoShopped various images into a photo-sphere to see in how far the technique would be suitable in creating a realistic VR gallery.

YouTube Smartphone App

This Photo-Sphere can opened on a regular smartphone for a full-screen VR effect, and using an inexpensive VR-headset such as Google-Cardboard, for an even better immersive experience.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6yWeh7DnoM

VR Headset

Google Cardboard VR headset

The project would use Homer’s Odyssey as a framework on which to hang an episodic journey through Berlin, much in the same way that James Joyce used the epic poem as the framework on which to hang his novel “Ulysses”, set in Dublin.There would be an emphases on the “Hero”, as yet still to be developed.

It would be presented primarily as an online exhibition, a complete website, individual images could be collected in a book.

The episodic adventure would be in the form of separate 360° photo-spheres, each at specific locations, as per Google Street View.

These photo-spheres would be photoshopped in such a way as to incorporate other images in the form of a virtual gallery or installation, which the viewer could then investigate by navigating around the photo-sphere.

The galleries and/or installations would be many images depicting and combined in such a way as to enhance the story.

The photo-spheres would be linked together to form a journey.

Museumsinsel

Paul Löbe Building

Photo-Spheres on Google Street View

I have many photo-spheres on Google Street view, in total they have been viewed over 4,500,000 times, one itself over 750,000 times, but as yet, despite all the hard work, I have not earned a single cent, nor ever received an enquiry, despite featuring prominently on the list of Google approved, trusted and certified photographers.

Google Street View Photo-Spheres

Experiment

This is the initial experiment to see if photoShopping elements into a pre-existing photo-sphere would even be feasible.

Photo-Sphere: Museumsinsel