VR Dreamscape - 360 Video Project

From the social meetup with students from Leeds College of Music, I have taken on a task for one of my live briefs. The student, Grace is working on an art installation about dreams. She is wanting a VR section to the event.

VR is something that I've not tried before but am excited to have a go at and learn how to do it. It will not be an interactive VR experience, but rather a 360 video to create atmospheric and dreamy imagery. Here are some inspirations I suggested to Grace, which I will be going forward with.







Experimenting with the technicalities of making a 360 video, I did this test. This was done as one flat 16:9 composition with basic solids and imagery from google images, just to play with how to do the effect. 



https://youtu.be/fAld1rKAbT0


Since this is just a flat video, I have had to try to manually make the edges of the screen match up with the other edge. YouTube's 360 video stretches the top and bottom of the image to a point. The main issues with this method is how I can create a seamless transition off one side over onto the other. I will continue to experiment with methods of creating this type of video to see what works best.