360-Degree Video Creation – Strategies to Consider
Brillhart (2015b) , a principal 360-degree filmmaker at Google, reasons that one of the most important questions that must be taken into account when creating 360-degree videos it is the viewers’ identity. From the first moment users try a VR headset, they are transported a new place where the main questions…
360-degree Video Creation – Hardware and Software
Hardware for 360-Degree Video Creation To derive overall tendencies, available cameras for 360-degree content production can be clustered into three sections: budget cameras, often used by beginners, middle range cameras for ambitious amateurs and high-priced ones that are used by professional agencies or filmmakers. Beginners’ cameras These cameras are characterized…
360-Degree Video Creation – An Overview
The process of 360-degree video creation differs slightly from the one for traditional video material. As a first step, a video idea and subsequently, a story is invented. Based on this, a plan is needed to define what and who to shoot how and where. The shooting process itself is…
VR in tourism from a business point of view – from gimmick to application
This article is from our guest blogger Julius Jelsma. He is a business developer at yellowbird, who recently graduated, doing research in how to apply virtual reality within the tourism industry. In the following, he will look at VR in tourism from a business point of view. Some of the previous…
Immersed in VR 2.0
This article is from our guest-blogger IOANA ALEXANDRA MEREUTA. She is a VR product development assistant for patients in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Generally, the most common thought about virtual reality, VR, technology starts with the act of putting the glasses on. However, the whole experience goes beyond expectations. It is simply guided…
Booking via VR?
Amadeus, one of the big Global-Distribution-Systems (GDS), tries to look deep into the future. It’s subsidary company Navitaire introduced the first “Virtual Reality Search and Booking Experience”. The user interacts with VR-glasses and special gloves and selects the desired destination on a virtual globe. Users can search for flights, car-rentals…
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Challenge
Call for Submission – Applying VR and AR to the real world. Win 5,000 Euros and be promoted by international Venture Capital experts and coaches in individual sessions Salzburg University of Applied Sciences invites you to submit your project proposals for VR and AR projects for the first Virtual Reality…
Try before you buy with Expedia
It is nothing new anymore that destinations and hotels as well as tour operators and travel agencies are using Virtual Reality to showcase their offers. Most content is 360° content that allows only limited interaction and therefore restricted immersion. An exceptions is Marriott’s Teleporter that enabled an easier immersion by the provision of…
Measuring the Media Effects of a Tourism-Related VR Experience Using Biophysical Data
Exploring the effects of Virtual Reality is an upcoming topic of research (Guttentag, 2010). Traditional research methods, such as user tests on which pre-post-test questionnaires are administered to viewers of VR, can be used to investigate the effects of VR media. That is, what people understand of the content displayed…
TDCV 2017 in Munich
On March 6th we attended the TDCV 2017 – the Trend Day Corporate Video 2017 in Munich, organized by the CTVA – Corporate TV & Video Association e.V. The overall topic was “VR/AR & 360° video – straw fire or success factor? Storytelling, worlds of experiences and value added”. The…