The Story of Verus Tech; or How I rode VR to CEO

[fastbilly1]

I am looking to build a home, as an example, and whoever I use, I will reconstruct their blueprints in vr to walk around my house before a single brick is layed to make sure I like the design.

I love it.

I just wanted to do tourism stuff. Like taking a camera into a place people rarely get to go. There was an article years ago, that you probably posted, about giving seniors the headset and letting them ride the boat in Assassins Creed. If you have an established company that is doing good work, it would be easy to convince companies like Norfolk Southern to let you mount a camera on top of one of their trains as it goes through the Northwest forest. Or to get access to places you do not normally get go go, like deep into Carlsbad Cavern or Mammoth Cave. Personally, if I could look at video of waypoints in Chernobyl that would be pretty awesome.

[Krejlooc]

Check out the apollo 11 recreation mission or the titanic project. Both are aiming at hyper realistic recreations of both events.

[noiseredux]

I'm hoping to go for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, and unexpected and harrowing series of events forces me to go to the planet for real, or do I?

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I am looking to build a home, as an example, and whoever I use, I will reconstruct their blueprints in vr to walk around my house before a single brick is layed to make sure I like the design.

I love it.

I just wanted to do tourism stuff. Like taking a camera into a place people rarely get to go. There was an article years ago, that you probably posted, about giving seniors the headset and letting them ride the boat in Assassins Creed. If you have an established company that is doing good work, it would be easy to convince companies like Norfolk Southern to let you mount a camera on top of one of their trains as it goes through the Northwest forest. Or to get access to places you do not normally get go go, like deep into Carlsbad Cavern or Mammoth Cave. Personally, if I could look at video of waypoints in Chernobyl that would be pretty awesome.

Adding to this, places that we cannot go would be interesting. Just think how awesome it would be to have VR maps of places like these:

Centralia, Pennsylvania
Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil
The Door to Hell, Derweze, Turkmenistan
Kantubek, Uzbekistan
New Idria, California
Chernobyl reactor, Pripyat, Ukraine
Zone A, Seveso, Italy
Agdam, Azerbaijan
Hashima Island, Japan
Miyake-jima Island, Japan
San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico
Wittenoom, Australia
Picher, Oklahoma
Brio Refinery Site, Harris County, Texas
Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Fukushima, Japan
Dallol, Ethiopia
Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus
Beichuan, China
Gilman, Colorado
Arkwright Town, England
Deception Island, Antarctica
Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec
Tyneham, England

[Krejlooc]

Chernobyl reactor, Pripyat, Ukraine

There is actually a group planning on doing this with drones and omnidirectional cameras. It sounds incredible.

[fastbilly1]

Chernobyl reactor, Pripyat, Ukraine

There is actually a group planning on doing this with drones and omnidirectional cameras. It sounds incredible.

I would imagine that Drone + VR = motion sickness for most people. Since lots of people get sick from the majority of small drone work anyway.

[Krejlooc]

Chernobyl reactor, Pripyat, Ukraine

There is actually a group planning on doing this with drones and omnidirectional cameras. It sounds incredible.

I would imagine that Drone + VR = motion sickness for most people. Since lots of people get sick from the majority of small drone work anyway.

The main cause of motion sickness is lateral rotation (turning, in other words, which causes vestibulocochlear disconnect unless you physically turn at the same time), which wouldn't really exist with an omnidirectional camera. So long as the drone remains relatively stationary in hover when filming, it wouldn't be much of a problem. Flight across an expected forward vector isn't really that sickening.

Now, if the person controlling the drone was flying it like a blue angel then there would be problems lol

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It also depends on how the VR is handled. If you're using the video to construct a 3D representation of the environment, I think it will be less of an issue than simply having the VR user along for the ride in an omnidirectional video.

[Krejlooc]

It also depends on how the VR is handled. If you're using the video to construct a 3D representation of the environment, I think it will be less of an issue than simply having the VR user along for the ride in an omnidirectional video.

Unfortunately the former isn't really possible using drones. The main hurdle to 3D scan as you describe it is the intense and rigorous setup required to correctly triangulate the cameras. It would be pretty maddening to try and set it up with drones.

I was reading the other day that this company in italy has successfully triangulated depth sensing cameras to capture half of a soccer pitch all at once. That is phenomenal!

[Ack]

It also depends on how the VR is handled. If you're using the video to construct a 3D representation of the environment, I think it will be less of an issue than simply having the VR user along for the ride in an omnidirectional video.

Unfortunately the former isn't really possible using drones. The main hurdle to 3D scan as you describe it is the intense and rigorous setup required to correctly triangulate the cameras. It would be pretty maddening to try and set it up with drones.

I was reading the other day that this company in italy has successfully triangulated depth sensing cameras to capture half of a soccer pitch all at once. That is phenomenal!

Isn't the University of Granada already doing this with 3D imaging systems and drones to produce 3D models of historical buildings?

http://canal.ugr.es/information-and-com ... item/57387