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Raghu Nandy

I am a Java/JEE, Big data and Cloud Engineer found Virtual Reality introduction video in a Facebook page. Virtual Reality (VR) dragged my attention to explore the possibilities for a couple of weeks. My findings kept me driving to open up new ideas for a better world tomorrow. VR can change our daily world. How would you imagine the world without television or mobile or internet, now we are in the world where VR is not yet unleashed its power.

Virtual Reality Voyages: An Inception to a Virtual life
Doodle — VR — Voyages
Memories:

What if you can preserve your memories in a pen drive or in a cloud storage. Hologramification of real world actions can make people cry when the loved ones disappear.

Live Shows:

Live show with an overwhelming performance of artists. Do you imagine how could the satisfaction of the audience with a remote connectivity to such voyages?

Gaming:

Most of the current Virtual Reality software are motivated for gaming. Unity3D is a great platform for the development of platform-agnostic games. Most of the coding is done in C# and projects can be exportable as Android project too.

Enterprise:

Live customer relationship care with VR-CRM, running background analysis algorithms on customer satisfaction and facial gestures. Never ending imaginations to a new world about to witness.

What is Next:

4K Mobile Screen:

Your mobile is quite good enough to try VR with a good vr-cardboard. Google/Samsung is working on next generation screens.

This image is taken from Amazon (http://amzn.com/B01CND9692)

Everdisplay-4k-phone-screen-for-vr

More Apps, Widgets:

Awaiting for more apps to envision the newest possibilities. Still there are few handful apps in the app store. Emptiness can bring opportunity for new entrepreneurs to hook the users to many vr-voyages.

This image is Youtube 2D video on Cardboard view (Content Credit: http://fmediocrity.com/)
Downsides:
  1. Batter power, Processing power and Internet bandwidth is still bottlenecks for VR world.
  2. Eyes should get more protection with better display filters.
  3. As a subtle observation, the people who are next to the person who are in VR-Voyage cannot feel the adventures.

Technical observations

  1. Video Format: The general 3d video format is mp4

Following is the Congo video from VR Android Samples provided by the SDK

This is how it looks in VLC Player with Codec info.

Congo 3D Video Meta details from a vlc player.

After analysis, I understood that the above video is taken from 2 sets of multiple 360 cameras.

Source: http://petapixel.com/2015/05/28/the-google-jump-360-camera-rig-uses-16-gopros/
Sample Image from Google VR — Samples library (simplepanowidget)

Try more and please share your comments and experiences. I am glad to share this information to the vr enthusiastic world. Welcome to Voyage.