Last week I helped with the preparation and production of the VR and 360 video experiences at the SU Syria event. The night before, Jason and I loaded up the Samsung Gear VR's with the proper videos. There were 3 that Professor Harper asked to have on each device, short film experiences about the civil war in Syria. We used three different video portals to download these films. One of the challenges we ran into, surprisingly, was the lack of a search function on any of them. Once we had...

Link to YouTube video: https://youtu.be/6kKAmyzpCnA   Well, it took me along time to get used to Unity. I never realized how difficult it would be to create a video game or 3D environment in a world that you make yourself. I tried a bunch of things that didn't seem to work, or maybe I just didn’t understand them. One of the main things was just getting used to Unity's UI. I found it difficult to go exactly where I wanted to in the scene, and thought the navigation and controls were...

Our group initially wanted to do the dance team at the beginning, we had some difficulties when doing our initial 360 video at Manley, as we were inexperience with the gopro cameras which caused us trouble during post production. During second round, when we filmed the dance team at the dome, we were able to properly use all 6 cameras to record all the scenes that we need for the project. However, the interior of the dome prove to be a challenge for our stitching team, due to the fact...

Our group did the 360 video on Crouse Bell tower. Initially the concept of our producer include Crouse Bell tower and beautiful sunset, unfortunately the weather was not perfect when we were shooting, so we ended up minus the sunset part. I checked out the equipment for the first shoot but I did not participate in the first shooting due to personal issues. But I managed to stitched the other scenes from the first shooting. The first scene that we showed in class was great. But there were problems on...

My team video is about Crouse Bell Tower at sunset. For the first attempt, we shot the outdoor views of the sunset. Last week we successfully contacted the tower guide to shooting the terrific interior view. The fascinating part of our video is to give the audiences a usual experience of appreciating the bell sounds inside the tower. As I have shot the sunset before, this time, Stephen and I helped to stitch and edit videos. First, we were surprised to find that there were a bunch of watermarks in...