Relaxing VR

A VR180, 8K Video taken in my stationary car during a storm. Thunder, rain and snow!

Another relaxing rain/snow video filmed in my car as thunder rolled down the mountains behind my house. I’m not sure I knew before this that you could get thunder and snow! This video was filmed in 8K, VR 180 on a Canon EOS R5 and can be seen best in the YouTube VR application available for VR headsets. Unfortunately embedding the video here does not enable VR viewing (even with the browser…

Virtual Stereoscope is out today, celebrating with a new VR360 trailer to give a sense of the full experience!

Experience history today: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/25027259013531991/ Step back in time and immerse yourself in a unique blend of history and technology with a groundbreaking VR app that brings Victorian stereoscopic images to life on the modern Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets. The images were taken over 100 years ago using similar techniques to those used today resulting in full…

A new post with a VR 360 video from my experiments with recording ocean waves in Unity.

I have been undertaking some experiments using the game engine Unity to create environments to film in 360 VR. My VR application has now been submitted to Meta Store and is going through that process, so between polishing and making changes to that, I have been tinkering with Unity. I like that with a game engine I have the potential to create and film scenes that I wouldn’t get chance to…

8K Seattle cityscape taken at night.

I have taken a number of shots from over the balcony in my apartment block. After getting used to leaving my camera in this position, I wanted to capture this in 2D as well as VR. The VR reduces some of the quality as th 8K is split between they two eyes, and so this 2D video captures night out of my window at its best. South Lake Union

A VR 180 video from the highlands of Scotland. Filmed using ambisonic audio for greater immersion.

As part of my Scottish odyssey in 2022, I aimed to record 8K VR 180 videos in relaxing locations. Unfortunately this was immediately after buying a new camera, and I had some technological teething problems getting set up to record in 8K. The CFExpress card needed to record at this quality came within the last couple of days before I drove home, and there were only a couple of locations I managed…

A 4K 60FPS video taken from a drive into downtown Seattle from the SeaTac airport.

As an English person recently moved to America, I have been exploring as much as possible, and even normal drives still seem exotic to me! I made various attempts to film road trips with my Insta360 Evo VR camera in the past, and I always liked this as an idea for something immersive and relaxing – the view from the passenger seat on a long, steady drive – however, the Evo wasn’t high enough…

Part 2 of my scenic drive up Whidbey Island along the coast to Fort Casey.

The second part of my scenic drive up Whidbey island took me from Meerkerk Gardens to Fort Casey State Park. This was a shorter drive at only around 20 minutes, but was probably the most visually striking part of the entire journey. A storm was moving in, and as I drove right along the shoreline – blue skies to my right highlighted the white colouring of logs washed up on the beach while dark…