Around and Around

I kayaked from Columbia Island to Fletcher's cove today, and took David's 360 degree camera along to play with. Actually, the whole genesis of the 360 degree camera is kayaking-related:

• A student at SK102 had just been to the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas and was very jazzed about VR and 360 imaging. He let me play with his Google Cardboard VR thing.
• After that, I got to thinking how that technology could be used in a long-standing idea I had for navigation training.
• I mentioned this to David and asked what he knew about these sorts of cameras. He said, "not much."
• The next day, I watched some YouTube videos and learned a little about how it works. Over the same period David devoured an enormous amount of information online about 360 degree cameras and VR, and had ordered a low end camera to experiment with.
• One day later, thanks to Amazon Prime fast shipping, we had a 360 degree camera in the house.

Here are some images from this morning's paddle:

Georgetown - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA

Potomac River just above Georgetown. Can you spot the deer on the riverbank? - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA

Here are links to view those images via the theta360 site (can go full screen, which doesn't seem to work from the blog):

https://theta360.com/s/hfjrnOouE8O33eweRITvSnf6G

https://theta360.com/s/kyudhf9sx9lZ9Hy4E71JFXbCy