Yesterday, we released the biggest cat video ever made: the #Catquarium. It’s a 2-hour virtual reality experience of San Francisco’s KitTea cat cafe. We launched on YouTube’s 360º video platform, which provides a virtual reality experience even without goggles — your phone acts as a window into the cafe, and by moving it left, right, up, and down, you can see all parts of the video.
Weighing in at 1 trillion pixels, it’s the longest 360º video uploaded to YouTube to date. It took almost two months to complete. Below, I detail the complex process of its creation.
Why a two-hour VR cat video?I remember stepping into an Oculus at Sundance 2015 and being in a room with a man. That’s how I remember it — not as a video, but as a room. When I moved my head, the man didn’t move — the Oculus created the illusion that he was in front of me. He smiled and I unconsciously mirrored his facial expression, just as I would in a real room. That’s when I became fascinated with what this technology could bring.
from No Film School http://ift.tt/24TuHZ5
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