Virtual field trip

You may wish to experiment with the use of panoramic photographs in your virtual field trip. Set up your digital camera on a rotating tripod at a central location in your field trip area. Take photographs of the entire 360° surroundings without moving the tripod. Ideally, you should aim to take between twelve and thirty six images. Download all the digital images to your computer, making sure than each one is properly logged.

Software packages like Simply VR can then be used to splice your digital images together to create a single panoramic view of the surroundings. This panoramic view can then be converted into a spin panorama - an interactive QuickTime file.

The Sandbach panoramic and Sandbach spin panorama resources have been included in this module to demonstrate. They show the area in Sandbach around the Market Square including the Saxon Crosses.

Information about Simply VR can be gained from www.tech4learning.com/​simplyvr/​.

An online tutorial on creating spin panoramas using Simply VR is available at http:/​/​myt4l.com/​index.php?v=r4s&page_ac=view&type=tutorials.

A free version of QuickTime is available to download from www.apple.com/​quicktime/​download/​.

Use Simply VR and the 18 photographs contained in the zipped Sandbach images folder to create a new spin panorama of the area around Sandbach Market Hall. Unzip the folder then follow the instructions listed in the online tutorial to import the images into Simply VR. The separate photographs then need to be spliced together using Simply VR to create a single panoramic image. This panoramic image can then be easily converted by Simply VR into a QuickTime VR spin panorama file.

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Trial or viewer versions of the software you need may be available from the Software downloads page.

Before downloading, please read the Website terms and conditions. A new browser window will open with each resource. If you wish to save the file on a PC, right-click and choose the 'Save Target As...' option. On a Macintosh, hold control and click (or click and hold) to display your browser's 'Save As...' options.

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