VR photos

For many reason, I have not used Google much of late, no reason other than they threatened me with extinction if I did not change a name I have been using since the very beginning of Google. It scared me a little, so I went back to Mac and the Apple Sphere.

Its a little different, but when you use a Mac and live in Google, but thats mostly behind me, as mail, calendar and a few other apps are now mostly Apple.

But try as I might, Google does not go away, so the blog I transferred here, is again being used.
This time to report on another google product that of Google Cardboard Camera, for taking VR photos.

This just has to be a turning point for so many people, but for surveying, it has to open a new dimension in recording a room, ok the distortion does not help, but that will go, but its so good to spin a room and get the content and relationship thats just not available in a set of 2D photos, or a video, which I still take out of habit.

And its available on the iPhone, the survey tool of choice, this link will take you to an excellent article on 9 to 5 Mac with their own links to the App store.

A lot of Article I post on all my usual haunts, Linkedin,Facebook Konstrukshon page, twitter, Google +,  yes I still like this forum.

Architecture & VR

You can't have missed it, VR is going to be big, and I am not just talking gaming, but the whole gambit of VR is going to touch all aspects of viewing not only video, and games, but Architecture, manufacturing and dare I say Medicine.

But lets take the two I am interested in Architecture and Manufacturing. A few years ago I went to Manchester to see the CAVE environment at Manchester University, and was literally blown apart by being so immersed inside a building, and being able to touch and move objects, it was clunky and slow, plus the hardware was not cheap. But that is changing and I for one will be watching it with interest. I have purchased a card Google holder, and hope to report on the unwrapping and use in future blogs.

I have shown and talked about the World Builder video for so long, it's what I envision the next generation of Cad to be, and Oculus Rift and the others are pushing that reality forward. I would explore you to track Scoble who is this week moving from Backspace to a VR Media company called Upload VR, and its here I have loaded up my request for their news letter.

So how can we move from the present CAD programs to a world of VR, do we need to some might ask. I think so, but there will be a slow migration from our current Cad to what I perceive in the film World Builder.

A little nearer to personal VR

Take a look at this video Scoble put up on his Facebook blog, I like this a lot, google glass developed a little more.

https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/10153966287844655