From the course: Virtual Tours: Video, Photo, and VR
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Publishing VR video with YouTube, part 1
From the course: Virtual Tours: Video, Photo, and VR
Publishing VR video with YouTube, part 1
- One of the most popular platforms for sharing 360 degree video, or really any video online, is going to be YouTube. And Google was an early adopter. Francis, earlier, showed you how Google Street View was used for virtual tours. And of course the YouTube player also supports VR content, but it needs to be optimized, right Francis? We can't just upload raw camera data most of the time. - No, you have to be able, you have to stitch them together so that way YouTube knows what to upload. If you just have two side-by-side, circular, fish-eye lenses together, YouTube's not going to know what to do with that. - [Instructor] Okay, nor can you upload if there was multiple cards, it has to be edited first on the computer. So, here I have a shot from an early generation consumer camera. This is the Theta. And we definitely have those two lenses here. And it's going to get confused by this type of footage, right? - [Francis] Yeah, it's just going to look at it as one video. So, what you're…
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