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Content creation: virtual reality pictures or video

Ever explored these options? care to discuss technicalities?

         

explorador

3:49 pm on Apr 28, 2025 (gmt 0)

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Hi webmasters

My experience creating original content covers text (writing), pictures, video + audio and animation (also 3D). For years I've been curious about VR, and despite the hype, it seems to me a wasted opportunity with mostly games, shorts and demos, but no real content.

A couple of years ago I bought a VR headset, only to surprise myself with the lack of real stereoscopic content on the web, or did I miss something? Youtube has a lot of shorts, but it's low quality 3D animations, and some brands have ugly and short demos online, it's been a disappointment.

Around year 2005 I created a way (using Flash) to serve panoramic video on screen, this was NOT stereoscopic and require a lot of work, you could move around 360 degrees to see the surrounding image, be it picture or video, but due to the hard work I abandoned the project.

2025+ seems to me a time to revisit stereoscopic VR video to me
Over my life I practiced a lot of mountaineering and travel photography, this has been part of my content on the web. I don't believe VR video (stereoscopic or not) has a chance for mass media consumption, but has potential for specific uses. I would love to provide people with disabilities (or just the elderly) the chance to be at the top of a mountain and see the 360 degrees of view by just turning their heads around, this could be pictures or video loops, and to me... it seems achievable to provide virtual tours including wind (fan) and even moisture from diff directions depending on the moment and place.

I have discovered accessories to record panoramic video using iPhones, other smartphone brands, and also plug and play VR cameras (like Huawei), and also things like instaGo 360 cameras. Today, capturing 360 images or video seems more feasable.

But... I don't know nobody doing it, I mean, I tried searching details but all I can find are product sale ads, and just a few ski videos, nobody explaining something meaningful. I don't want free stuff like watching a full tutorial, no, I like to do my homework, but what I have found on reviews also covers comments on how these things don't work as expected, and above all: I see no content.

What I don't want: buying stuff, testing it and then becoming another person selling it for cheap because it's terrible. In general, I'm curious if someone ever tried this kind of content. It's very likely that at the end of the year I'll buy it anyway to test it myself, but research ahead is always a good idea.

not2easy

4:13 pm on Apr 28, 2025 (gmt 0)

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A friend put up something similar, to view a panoramic scene surrounding a point but it relied on QuickTime player to view it. It was removed when that became a relic - and not replaced, for the same difficult issues of trying to make such views publicly available.

I do not know what setups are used by Realtors, but they commonly offer interior and exterior videos showing the type of panoramic scenes that users can manipulate to see close-up views of details. I see that there are a number if listings for Virtual Tour creation (in DDG) some are proprietary (like zillow) others claim you can use a mobile phone to create them. Sorry, no personal experience with the effort.

explorador

4:25 pm on Apr 30, 2025 (gmt 0)

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Thanks not2easy, yes I remember QuickTime player features, things have changed a lot.

I will include realtors and zillow on my search terms to keep digging, I'm tempted to buy some stuff, but first I want to research as much as possible to avoid accumulating things that I won't use.

tangor

4:21 am on May 1, 2025 (gmt 0)

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While there is some interest in "interactive pictures/images" I'm personally not sure that most folks (users) actually expend any time with that (even on Zillow, etc) as the initial "still" image usually satisfies before all the mousing or finger gestures begin. Seems like a lot of time and expense to create something that might not have any real value.

FILM/Video on the other hand is still stellar, though once again, you have to rely on the user to click the play button. If it is auto play a large number of users instantly hit the back button.

If we are talking true VR which requires a headset then the audience might be even smaller.

Kendo

11:10 pm on May 1, 2025 (gmt 0)

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I was researching this to provide a panoramic view of my partner's gallery. I tried recording video by revolving the recorder but while video can be played on all devices, I could not get a satisfactory result.

There are some software apps for creating panorama views for desktop but they rely on the desktop viewer and unsuitable for online display. Then I tried some CMS plugins, and some showed promise. These plugins use JavaScript to scroll a single image that encompasses the 360 degree view. The key was to create a suitably scaled image. WordPress has some panorama plugins.

I ran out of time and instead opted for a tiled display of the artworks on the home page. If anyone comes across a standalone JavaScript viewer (not a CMS plugin) I would love to here.

explorador

7:45 pm on May 3, 2025 (gmt 0)

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@not2easy, @tangor, @kendo

Thanks. As for now, I'm not entirely worried about web technologies, I think I could build something with a computer and a visor, be it directly connected, or via headset and remote desktop / visor. My main concern is capturing the video and producing the final content.

I think I can solve this via desktop coding.

I'll keep searching and will update the thread when I find something.

tangor

7:18 am on May 4, 2025 (gmt 0)

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Go for it! Oddly enough, there is a rather famous digital camera manufacturer which has a downloadable companion application (desktop, not phone) with a rather good 360° panorama creation tool (might be specific for their cameras, can't remember since I can't afford one but helped a recent owner LEARN how to LEARN their new toy). Might check those sources and see if there is anything that can be useful.

explorador

2:34 am on May 7, 2025 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, will be taking care of some things first. I do want to explore this world, will keep reading, and at this moment I have to back to coding due to some unexpected events.
 

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