Showing posts with label photospheres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photospheres. Show all posts

22 March 2021

360 Photos in Mozilla Hubs

 


Been experimenting a bit with 360 photos in Mozilla Hubs. They are just part of an empty room, so you can add 3D objects "inside" the photo, although without any scripting you can't create hot-spots as such. You could though add links from one to another - but on its own that's not a smooth transition.

What does work well though is the ability for the room owner to load scenes around the participants, so you can do an immersive slideshow, everyone starting in one place, and then load a 360 around them, and then another one and so on. If you added a map or 3D table model like the one below you could end up doing quite a nice human-guided field trip/battlefield tour/holiday slideshow.



The photosphere shots here are ones I took on my iPhone at the base of Uluru, and apart from a few glitches at the joins they come out pretty well in Hubs.

Of course the nice thing about using Hubs for something like this is that its very social and involving - everyone sees the same image at the same time, can see and talk to others, and naturally tends to move around the space towards the bits of the photo they are interested in so larger groups naturally fragment to smaller groups if desired - which with spatial audio enables lots of parallel conversations to go on.



And here's more of a heritage/built environment shot from Hougoumont Farm on battlefield of Waterloo.


Just get in touch if you've got a good idea of how you might be able to use this approach to 360Vr in your teaching/training/education/out-reach.



25 July 2016

iCentrum VR app now on Apple App Store

We have now launched our iCentrum photosphere VR app onto the Apple App Store. Just search for "icentrumvr" to download it to your iPhone. The app has both a VR and non-VR modes. In VR mode you can use it with a Google Cardboard headset for the full immersive experience. In non-VR mode you get a single screen display, and can just move the phone around you in order see the whole of the spherical image.

As with the Android version there 6 images, linked by the red hotspots, and an information zone with more details of the iCentrum building and supporting projects.


13 May 2016

iCentrum VR Photosphere App Launched





We've just completed a photospheres virtual reality app for Innovation Birmingham Campus for their new iCentrum building. The app lets you step through half a dozen locations in the building, each with audio narration, and view an information zone with further details about the project.

The app will be used by the iCentrum business development team to win new tenants, and they will also be mailing out branded Google Cardboards to key contacts. The app currently works on Android and an iOS version is coming. It also works with or without Google Cardboard.

Visit the Play Store and search for icentrumvr to download the free app. Read more about photosphere apps, and get in touch if you'd like us to build one for you.

**Update: Now available on Apple App Store as well! Just search "icentrumvr".