EIAS & VR

[barnabythebear]

Hiya EI gang,

I may have the opportunity to do a VR project but I have no experience of this type of thing! It will involve modeling an environment and creating a 360 view with this ending up in a VR headset. Has anyone tried this sort of thing? 

Any help would be appreciated :)

Nige.

[Kunnae Kim]

Nice to meet you, barnabythebear
I finished VR video work several times through EIAS.
I've been helped by Diego.
I was trying to post a comment on Norihito San's comments below.
I could not write because of busy work. (Sorry Norihito San ~ :-)

As you can see, my English is bad.
But if you have any questions, I will write to you.

It is things that have suffered and learned. However, I am willing to EIAS Member !!

Please call me "Kim". Everyone here calls me that. lol

[Diego]

Hi Nige, 

As Tom said I already did  360º fotage with EIAS, it works perfectly, the only thing is that you have to make an array of 6 cameras attached to a cube and then sew them in After Effects that the latest version already has a filter to sew these separate renders.
If you need to do stereoscopic 360º then you have to put two arrays of 6 cameras each and separate them 6.5 cm to emulate the separation distance of human eyes.

I you do still VR you have to use Cube Map proyection. Stereo side by side.

If you do animation VR use spherical map proyection. Stereo over under.

I hope this help, please ask any thing you need.

Cheers

Diego

[Nori]

Hi barnabythebear.
I also have made 3D panoramic stereo VR data as well but it needed another software too.
Please see my sample on Youtube if you like.

you can see it realistically using Google Cardboard.

https://youtu.be/qUN1LuxNeQM
 

Nori.

[barnabythebear]

Hiya Kim, Diego and Nori,

Thanks for the input gentlemen. Nori, that video is just what I need to generate! I will play with the six camera rig placed in a simple cube and see what results I get :) I'm assuming that in EI it's  a  matter of rendering a 360 for each camera? We have After Effects at the college so that shouldn't be  a problem. We also have an Oculus Rift headset in our Games Design department, though I'm not sure what  format it requires.

I also need to add hotspots within the VR that can be accessed by the hand controller. These will bring up a simple still graphic with text. Does this require specialist software? Finally, I need to render three simple rooms and have a method of accessing/moving between each one.

Thanks again for the advice, 

Nige.

Edit: just found this in an older post:

1. Output from EI's rendering format to Environment

2. Batch Converting from EI Viewer to Vertical Cross

3. Use Adobe AE's SKYBOX Plugin. Vertical cross to 2: 1 Equirectangular

So I just render out six stills to those specs? Is there a render aspect ratio that I need to maintain - 2:1 (4k 2:1 = 4096 x 2048)?

Thanks

[Chenarch]

 

Hi All,

I'm not sure I'm doing it right, but I rendered a square resolution in EIAS (1024 I think) but rendered it as "environment."

I placed the camera in the center of space and (without ever moving camera) I rotated it 90º to capture the four sides, then

rotated it to capture top and bottom.  I will check my notes, but I think this is how I I ended up with a vertical cross of the whole space. 

I took the vertical cross into Photoshop and carefully cut it into six squares.

I then went to internet and found some javascript that displays six squares as VR (one-two-three-four-top-bottom) and got this

result:  http://www.mostbeautifulroom.com/thomas-jefferson-capitol/thomas-jefferson-capitol-virtual-reality.html

I'd like to find out more about the stereo part... not sure I'm doing it right...

Richard (chenarch) 

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Chenarch
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[barnabythebear]

Hiya Richard,

That's really nice. I think I'm going to take this project into Unity but I will experiment later in EI just to compare the results.

Thanks,

Nige.