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Additional Cardboard VR Experiences
YouTube 360 Video Channel
The Google Cardboard VR system, coupled with the Google YouTube 360 Video VR Mode library, offers a large collection of VR experiences across a wide range of activities. A sampler of some of the most compelling of these adventures is gathered below.
● Launching YouTube 360 VR Videos: Because the 360 Video VR Mode links below require viewing on a Smartphone stand-alone YouTube app through a Google Cardboard headset, viewing this document on a Smartphone is required; then, touching the 360 video links below will launch the 360 video directly into the Smartphone stand-alone YouTube app, at which point, once in the YouTube app, displaying in the 360° video controls area will be the Cardboard "VR Mode" control button (lower right corner "face-mask like" icon)
● Optimizing YouTube 360 VR Resolution: As mentioned earlier, resolution varies between near-HD to pre-digital broadcast TV depending on the SmartPhone screen resolution & that available/selected in the YouTube video, while focus may take a few moments to kick-in. Additionally there may be visible a "screen-door effect...a visual artifact of displays, where the fine lines separating pixels...become visible in the displayed image... an issue with virtual reality headsets...because these stretch a single display across a much wider field of view" -- Wiki. Additionally, & also as mentioned earlier, in YouTube…
"image resolution is 'Auto (Selected)' & should look good & sharp - if not (the image is 'soft/fuzzy/blurry' like old broadcast television/VHS or early computer screen VGA), if the original source video was filmed at a higher resolution, the resolution setting can be bumped up, typically to a low HD setting of 720s, & still provide smooth continuous playback - however if set too high for a given system, for example > 1080s, the system may be overtaxed, resulting in freeze/stop-start jerky motion playback, & hence need the resolution set lower. To adjust the resolution, in the YouTube video screen upper right corner video controls area, select the rightmost vertical "three white dots" drop-down system menu (︙), & on the horizontal banner of controls that appear, select the leftmost "gear-shaped" icon (⚙) labeled "Quality", & on the pop-up list of available resolutions that appears, select the desired value"
The following VR experiences are arranged by category (within which any Swiss VR adventures are listed 1st). Remember to plug in your headphones & look all around (while slow spinning on a swivel chair if possible) as the experience unfolds:
Showcase VR Experiences: Immersive Video with Spatial Audio
● Seeking Pluto’s Frigid Heart…"NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft [at] Pluto...Set foot on an alien world, three billion miles from the warmth of the sun...Fly over Pluto’s rugged surface, stand among the icy al-Idrisi Mountains and touch down in frost-rimmed Elliot Crater…360 VR Video | The New York Times"
● 360 Google Spotlight Story: HELP
● Gorillas in the Congo: A Jump VR Video
Prehistoric
● 360° meet the largest dinosaur ever discovered - Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur…"David Attenborough meets the biggest animal ever to walk on Earth, in 360 - a Titanosaur - BBC One"
● Rhomaleosaurus…"London Natural History Museum Rhomaleosaurus…Google Arts & Culture"
● Giraffatitan…"Berlin Museum für Naturkunde Giraffatitan…Google Arts & Culture"
Art
● Dreams of Dalí - The Surrealist’s Art in 360 video…"BBC News"
Nature
● Epic Northern Lights Footage in 360 Format. Must Watch
● Expedition to the Heart of an Active Volcano | 360° Video
● [Hydrothermal vents] R1917 Site BBC: First dive
● Watch Old Faithfull's epic eruption in 360 degrees at Yellowstone National Park
● Insane 360 video of close-range tornado near Wray, CO yesterday!
Travel
● Iceland - A Miracle of Nature | a 360 degree VR travel film
Political
● RecoVR: Mosul, a collective reconstruction..."In February 2015, Islamic State militants posted a video online showing the destruction of antiquities in and around the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq. For our first virtual reality project and 360° video, we have built a virtual museum to house those destroyed objects. This reconstruction of the Mosul Museum in Iraq was commissioned by The Economist Media Lab in association with Project Mosul [‘Project Mosul was founded...by...two archaeology PhD students who wondered whether it might be possible to crowdsource images and use them to reconstruct the destroyed items using a technique called photogrammetry. This involves feeding multiple images of an object, taken from different angles, into a piece of software that combines them to form a three-dimensional model. Thousands of photographs have since been uploaded to the Project Mosul site by local people, tourists, and even American soldiers…[the project included] physical reconstructions of some items, produced using 3D printing’ -- blog full story]"
● Theirworld | Safe Schools: Nepal
● Bletchley Park 360 tour: How Britain cracked Nazi Enigma
Journalism
● The Nepal Earthquake Aftermath in 360° Virtual Reality - Nepal Quake Project - RYOT VR
● Growing Up Girl: A Day in the Life of a Young Girl on the Border of Tanzania and Kenya in VR
● The Crossing: A 360º Look Into the Journey of Refugees to Greece
● Calais Migrant Camp in 360: Seeking Home
● Jared Leto Tour Guides Alaska's Melting Glaciers in 360°: Ready For 100
● Maroon 5 + Guster: A Journey to Guatemala in 360°
● Meet Albina in 360° Virtual Reality
Culture
● Pilgrimage: A 21st Century Journey Through Mecca and Medina...The New York Times
● [Jordan, Petra] The Rose City (360° VR video trailer)
● [India, Amritsar, Sikhs] 360-Degree Video: Evening Prayers, Hymns at the Golden Temple
Outdoor Recreation
● 360 VIDEOS // Wingsuit BASE [Jumping] in the Swiss Alps…in Lauterbrunnen
● 360° Motion TV - Paragliding - Muerren - Switzerland
● 360° cable car | Europe's highest aerial cableway | Matterhorn, Switzerland
● 360° ride | Gelmerbahn | Europe's steepest funicular…in the Swiss Alps
● 360° walk | «Trift» suspension bridge | Swiss Alps
● 360° video [ski] Leysin - Switzerland [takes ~ 20 seconds to get moving]
● Wallis Switzerland [mountain drive] 360 VR Video [4K] - Inden - Varen, Valais
● Grand Canyon 4K 360º Video by 360 Labs
● Valen's Reef (360 video)…"one of the greatest spectacles of biodiversity in the world…The Bird’s Head Seascape in eastern Indonesia…an area the size of Great Britain…holds more species of fish than Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and more species of coral than the entire Caribbean Ocean…Dive in virtual reality…with Ronald Mambrasar, an indigenous fisherman-turned-coral-scientist, and his son, Valen, through crystal-clear waters teeming with fish"
Sport
● 360° ice hockey | SC Bern | Swiss National League A
● [Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games] Samsung - Ski Jump in 360°
Racing (Car/Motorcycle)
● Incredible 360 Degree Video! GT-R Drives First ever 360 VR lap of #LeMans #GTR #NISMO
● Enter the Motordrome (360 Video) [early 20th Century Harley Davidson racing]
In Town
● Bern’s slumdog rickshaw driver in 360
Fly (Jet/Helicopter/Seaplane/Drone)
● 360° cockpit view | Fighter Jet | Patrouille Suisse | Virtual Reality
● 360° mountain view | Air Glaciers | Jungfrau Region
● VR 360° Drone flight over waterfall / 360° Drohnenflug über Rheinfall
● Dornier Sea Plane 360° Experience
Sail/Kayak
Surf
● GoPro VR: Tahiti Surf with Anthony Walsh and Matahi Drollet
Drive
● 3D 360° Google Cardboard - Nighttime Drive Down The Las Vegas Strip 360 Video Part 1 [& Part 2]
Car
● Take a ride in the Audi R8 in 360 degrees
● 360° video drive in the E-Class around Lisbon - Mercedes-Benz original
Motorcycle
● 360 Degrees TT On Bike with Ian Hutchinson - Press Launch)..."as he takes his Tyco BMW machine for a blast from Creg Ny Baa to Windy Corner [Isle of Man]"
Bike
● 360° Biking in Switzerland - Fribourg
● 360° Biking in Switzerland - Berne
● [Video 360°] Revivez le départ du Tour à 360° - Tour de France 2016
Amusement Park
● Explore Oblivion in 360 degrees..."experience the might of the world's first vertical drop rollercoaster"
● [Extreme] 360° RollerCoaster at Seoul Grand Park
Space
● Juno: Mission to Jupiter 360 Video (Narrated)..."NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory"
● Rocket Launch 360: DeltaIV NROL-45
Animation
● The Jungle Book AMAZING New 360° Video (2016)
Science/Tech Visualization
● 360° Fractal Matrix - Mandelbulb 3D fractal VR 4K
● The Virtual Plant Cell 360° tour - Plant Energy Biology VR
● Test Drive the Future: Dr. Kaku's Microcosmic Journey (360 Video)…"Shrink to the size of an atom with Dr. Kaku and travel through the hydrogen fuel cell system of the Toyota Mirai"
Game/Sci Fi
● The Climb 360°...Alps Ascent
● Airbus VR Experience - Mars 360 Release
● Eve Online VR Video - The Ships and Factions of New Eden
● Total War: Warhammer - Join the Battle 360° Trailer [PEGI ENG]
Concert/Festival
● Paul McCartney - 'One On One' with Buenos Aires in 360°
● Follow The Unicorn: A 360 Bonnaroo [Music and Arts Festival] Adventure
Additional Resources
Smartphone VR Sources/Providers
YouTube maintains a channel named "360° Videos". Major news services & magazines including New York Times (NYT), Life, BBC & The Economist, along with global organizations including the United Nations (UN), as well as novel VR sources like Jaunt, offer free custom VR Apps, or dedicated mobile VR websites, that substitute for the YouTube player functionality, maintaining & directly linking to a dedicated Library of host-specific VR content.
YouTube
Custom Mobile Apps
● BBC Taster: mobile website
● BBC Sport 360 ((100 hrs. Rio Olympics coverage article): iPhone / Android
● The Economist Virtual Reality: iPhone / Android
● Huffington Post Ryot-VR: iPhone / Android
● Google Arts & Culture: iPhone / Android
VR Training
● Learn by doing with the Udacity VR Developer Nanodegree…From Google (Google Developers Blog) + Udacity (Stanford University Online)
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