360 Photography
360 Photography allows students to explore places which are too difficult to reach in the real world. The location may be too far away, too expensive to reach or too dangerous to visit. It's ideal for photo galleries, site visits, virtual tours and sound scaping.
See the examples below for more information. Each photo was taken using the Ricoh Theta V 360 camera and hosted on free platforms such as Roundme and Cupix.
Photo Gallery
This example shows various locations from the Leeds Beckett campus. It forms part of a pre-arrival module to help students prepare for university life. The gallery is hosted on Roundme.
Read more on the Ricoh Theta V website.
Virtual Tour
A virtual tour allows students to explore a space with more freedom. Several 360 photos are stitched together, enabling the student to navigate to areas of interest.
The tour below uses eight 360 photos stitched together using Cupix.
Read more on the Cupix website.
Site Visit
Using 360 photography to create a site visit can provide more insight to learning theory and case studies. The example here was taken from a project on sustainable refurbishment.
The photos are hosted on Roundme which allows text labels, HD photos and YouTube videos to be embedded within them.
Read more on the Roundme website.
Sound Scaping
Sound scaping provides another level of immersion by embedding audio into a 360 experience. Different audio tracks are triggered as the user pans around the screen.
Click the ‘speaker icon’ on the example below to try it.
Read more on the Roundme website.
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