I first met Laurence Segal while at my retail job at Destiny USA, a nearby mall. He was dressed head to toe in breast cancer related clothing and was eager to talk about his efforts in raising money for breast cancer research when I brought up the topic. It was clear to me from the moment we met that he was passionate about finding a cure, and has made raising awareness and funds a priority in his life. After speaking further with him, I found out that he makes daily...
As a Public Relations major, all of our projects this semester were very new to me. In addition to the subject of virtual reality being a new, the software we used was very foreign to me as well. This independent leaning project was really helpful for me as I prepared my final project. The last time I edited a video in software besides iMovie was freshman year for COM117 in FinalCut Pro, so taking on projects in AutoPano and Adobe Premiere Pro was complicated and confusing for me most of the...
Research Presentation
by cspanos
- March 29
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Click here for the slides detailing my final project pitch. I really like the immersive feeling of 360 videos. I think that following along Segal's bottle collection in 360 would be really interesting.
Unity Scene
- March 20
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So far in the course of this semester, learning the Unity program has been the most challenging task I have taken on. It took me about 4 attempts to actually create a scene and fully understand how to resize models, move them to roughly the area I wanted them to be in, and move around the scene. It's safe to say that I expected this to be more like the Sims, but it's not, at all. My final scene is a walk through of a forest leading up to three...
Assignment 5
- March 15
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What I love about watching the NYT360 videos on Google Cardboard is the feeling of being transported directly into a scene. For my video, I made that scene two friends making a late night snack and just catching up with one another in general. The video is comprised of three scenes around the kitchen. The first has viewers seemingly sitting at the kitchen table with the us, the second was intended to get a better shot of the food being prepared, and the third is more of a bird's eye...
Midterms week is crunch time for most of us here at SU. When balancing jobs, extracurriculars, and courses, it's hard to find time to catch up with friends you don't see daily. For this 360 video, I recruited the help from one of my best friends from my trip abroad to do what we do best: blow off steam from school by talking about our lives and eating late-night snacks. This week's snack was scrambled eggs, and the topic of conversation was the best beach reads before going on spring break....
Art Exhibit 360
- February 28
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Our initial idea for our 360 video was to provide a 360 view of an art exhibit. Luckily, our video stitching worked successfully the first time we attempted it. This is most likely because there was not a lot of movement throughout the video. With this video, our goal was to create a soothing "museum-like" experience for people that might live to far away from an art museum. We added in jazzy music to go with the overall experience of the video. If Nadine, Kyle, and I were to create...
As a member of Syracuse's student programming board, I work closely with a team of students to plan and bring about various events to our campus. One of our most well-known events in the spring is Mayfest in Walnut Park. I'm sure that many 360 videos already exist with music festivals and large scale concerts as the subject, but this one would differentiate from them because it would show the overall transformation of Walnut Park over the course of the spring semester. Since Mayfest isn't until the end of April,...
My First Impression of VR
- January 25
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The first time I truly experienced virtual reality was in class this past Wednesday. Before signing up for our class, I had watched a few 360 videos on YouTube, but they always seemed so unrealistic, and I had never put on a pair of goggles and been transported into a scene. I tried a few different devices including the HTC Vive and Google Cardboard, among others. My favorite story to be immersed in was about Henry the Hedgehog. While I don’t think I felt 100% physically present in the scene...