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The tour could be either a collection of 360 videos hosted on YouTube or 360 photos
uploaded to a web-based service such as Roundme. If you plan to upload the videos to
YouTube, be aware that you must add metadata to your videos in order for them to be
viewed online. This can be done easily with an app and instructions on how to do so
can be found here. YouTube is probably the quickest and easiest way to share and view
360 videos in Cardboard or non-Cardboard mode. Roundme is preferable if your
learners want to make more of a ‘guided-tour’ experience, where photospheres can be
embedded with text, audio, and hotspots linking to other photospheres. There is a free
account available, but you are limited to uploading 15 photospheres weekly. It would be
unlikely that this would cause a problem for a class project/task, since learners could
make individual accounts. More tech-savvy teachers could create a class blog/website
to host learner-created 360 content, but that is a post for another time.
360 Experience
4. Moving to Mobile Mixed Reality (Magic Leap One)
By Eric Hawkinson
Magic Leap, the augmented reality startup has made a name for itself by raising more
money than any tech startup in history. For years they have said little to nothing to the
public about what they are developing other than a few cryptic YouTube videos. Those
videos have been the subject of intense debate in AR/VR developer communities as
they look doctored and few believe the technology Magic Leap possesses can actually
deliver content like what is shown. Finally in January we have our first public
announcement of product. It is a head mounted display (HMD) that projects light
directly into your eyes while also allowing you full view of what is in front of you. They
call it ‘lightfield’ technology, and it is a secret sauce of refractive and projection imaging
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