Ok, maybe not. But we recently received some very cool, new technology. Introducing the 360 One VR. A nice product maid by Kaidan. The short version is that it’s a 360 Degree lense. One digital camera picture looks in all directions. It comes bundled with Photowarp, the software that converts a squarish digital camera picture into a 360 Degree interactive Quicktime ‘movie’.
I think most people have been to a Hotel website and they have 360 Degree ‘virtual tours’ for many rooms. Well this is the same thing, and now WOU has it. First things first, we’ll do the residence halls. The Room Re-Signup process is coming up quick, and we’re hoping to have these cute little viewable movies in place so that residents and future residents can choose rooms with a higher degree of knowledge. We’re taking the web to places we haven’t gone before.
We did a lot of testing today, and to be completely honest, it hasn’t been all daisies and sunshine. We had to work with the equipment (some of which isn’t quite straight…) but we’re getting really reasonable results at the moment. In a couple of weeks we’ll be pros and the world can see us in 360 Degree color and lights!