VR - soulcruzer

Hello, good folks. Today I decided to share some behind-the-scenes footage of me building a soundstage in VR/metaverse in preparation for a future podcast series I have planned for early 2023. If you follow me on the bird or the mastodon, you’ll know that I’ve gone all-in on VR and the Metaverse. Those two mediums together are on the cusp of breaking out to displace mobile tech as the premium means of interaction, collaboration, and community.

As I mentioned in a previous post, the trouble with the metaverse at the moment is it isn’t a singular instance. It’s like a multi-metaverse with different players creating their own version of the metaverse. Some the metaverses I hang out in are: AltspaceVR (owned by Microsoft), Engage VR, and Meta Horizon World. I’ve dabbled on VRchat, Rec Room, and Decentraland.

AltspaceVR is my by far my favorite. It’s a very versatile platform. It’s primarily geared up for events, and community gatherings, but you can run seminars and presentations as well as host talk shows and podcasts. It has limited gaming function, but is great for socializing. You can create your own universe full of many different worlds.

I’m starting to spend more time in Horizon Worlds for its media capable in terms of recording videos or streaming live events. It’s easier to record videos of your productions. In addition to the casting and recording function of the Oculus Quest 2 headset, there is an inbuilt camera inside of Horizon world that position how you like and record short videos in both portrait and landscape mode. For this reason, I’ve decided to build a soundstage in Horizon to record a future podcast series I’m planning to launch next year.

Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage.

My excitement for VR and the metaverse is beginning to border on obsession. It’s a good thing the Quest 2 has a battery life of only about 2 hours, otherwise I’d be in danger of overdosing on the virtual world.

If you’re VR and metaverse enthusiast, which platforms to you use and why? Also, I’d love to connect with you VR.

Ok, so this is my first attempt at an unboxing video. I know it’s a strange ritual to watch someone unbox something they bought. Usually that kind of thing is only done on Christmas and birthdays. At least then it makes sense because presumably it’s your family and friends watching you unbox (unwrap) gifts they’ve given you. But to watch a total stranger unbox stuff, well, that’s a whole other thing. I have to admit, I didn’t used to get it. However, I watched a few unboxings over the past week and oddly enough I kind of enjoyed them.

One of the things I forgot to mention in the video was the specs of the video camera, which I guess would be something people would want to know. Here they are for you:

Image Sensor: 8.0 million pixels (CMOS)
Functional mode: video recording and photographing
Lens: F2.0 f=1.1mm
Video resolution: 1920x1440P (30fps) 1440×1080 (30fps)
Photo resolution: 3264×2448, 2592×1944, 2304×1728
File format: video (H.264 MOV) picture: JPG
Storage medium: TF card (max 32GB supported)
USB interface: High-speed USB 2.0 interface
Power source: External lithium battery 1000mAh

Something else I think is worth mentioning, the Andoer 360 Panorama isn’t quite 360, at least not how you might be imagining 360 to be i.e. you can look up, down, and all around the video. This is more 360 degrees on a fixed plane. As you’ll see, the video camera only has one lens as oppose to the dual lens like you might find on the Ricoh Theta S Camera.

Alright, let’s get on with the show. Don’t laugh too hard (or laugh and we’ll call it a comedy sketch) at my feeble attempt at unboxing.

Here’s the video I made with the Andoer 360 Panorama Video Camera. Warning: there is no sound. The process of uploading 360 videos to Youtube is different than normal. I think I forgot to check the audio button in the conversion software I used to make it possible for Youtube to read the metadata.

Ok, chow for now peeps.

Pssst…what did you think of my unboxing?