You don't need an expensive rig to help your students get experience in virtual reality storytelling.
With Story Spheres is a way to add stories to panoramic photographs. It allows users to stitch together 360-degree images and audio. First, upload a 360-degree photo that you can take with your phone to storyspheres.com. Then add dialogue, sound effects, and even a music track. This can act as background sound captured at the scene or as 'hotspots' that only play when someone taps or hovers over them. Whoever opens the scene will get a panoramic photo with sound and stories baked in. Better still, on the phone, the picture wraps right around the viewer. So now, you can tell stories that truly revolve around your audience.
What do I need to create a Story Sphere?
You will need a 360 image, and at least one piece of audio.
How to make a Story Sphere:
1. Log in, and click ‘CREATE’.
2. Enter the title and description. Read the terms and conditions before uploading content. Click ‘NEXT’.
3. Upload a 360 degree image in a .jpeg or .jpg format. Click ‘NEXT’.
4. Upload at least one audio file and place it inside the 3D space, using the the positioning tool. Click ‘NEXT’.
5. If you would like to link to another Story Sphere select the title from the list, and place in the 3D space using the the positioning tool. Click ‘NEXT’.
6. You’re done. Now you can share it, embed it into your site, or submit it to be apart of the public gallery.
How do I create a 360 image?
1. To capture this type of image, you could use
2. The Photo Sphere app on iOS
3. The native camera on Android
4. Speciality cameras like the Ricoh Theta
5. You could even stitch together SLR photographs into a 360 image.
For Biology
In preparing an outside activity to acquire prior knowledge of the place and to know what to do during the fieldwork; If is impossible to carry out the fieldwork, it can be simulated it in the classroom and, here, the sounds can be associated to tasks or to document the place;
For Geology
To observe areas of difficult access but useful in the study of Geology: e.g. steep slopes, unstable ground; To analyse riverbed of different rivers and compare them; To observe different kind of rocky material; To document geological places with some “magic”.
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