Create Tours in VR

Overview

Create virtual tours for the Oculus Quest. Start with photos captured from your cell phone, a 360° camera, or captured from Google Maps Street Views. Create your tour with linked scenes, 360° backgrounds, still images and text. Leave with the skills to help students create virtual tours using the Oculus Quest.

Plan Your Story

1. Who is your audience and what are you trying to say? What do you want them to get out of viewing your story?

2. Scenes - how many, what scenes are needed? Does the story work best using a linear or a branching format? How will the links work - menu or “hot spot”

3. Assemble the resources in a shared Google Drive folder

   • 360 background photo - find online, capture with a camera or phone, download from Google Street View

     • Upload 360 photos to Google Photos to preview in 360 VR

   • Regular photos to be placed in the scene - may be a close up of objects in the scene you want to highlight. Think about where in the scene the photos should be placed.

   • Select an image to serve as the thumbnail for the tour

   • Write the text for the scene and photos in the scene. Great to use Google Docs, 2 - 3 sentences maximum

   • See Steve's Process for Creating Virtual Tours

Driftspace - a Tour is Called a "Drift"

Driftspace is a platform for creating immersive VR stories by combining 360 video, text, images, links, and other media. Driftspace allows you to create interactive video stories in VR and to share

• Driftspace Website - create scenes, upload media, write content, link between scenes, upload solid colored backgrounds for text or links between scenes

• Driftspace App - organize uploaded content to tell your story