New York City 8K - VR 360 Drive
Filmed on the Insta360 Pro camera! Retail price $3,500.
Driving Downtown 360 — Times Square — New York City New York USA — Episode 7.
Starting Point: 7th Avenue goo.gl/maps/VaEwGkLkoWr.
Times Square is one of the worlds most visited tourist attractions, with 50 million visitors annually. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as «The Crossroads of the World», «The Center of the Universe», «the heart of The Great White Way», and the «heart of the world». One of the worlds busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the worlds entertainment industry. It is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square
What is Virutal Reality?
Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated scenario that simulates a realistic experience. The immersive environment can be similar to the real world in order to create a lifelike experience grounded in reality or sci-fi. Augmented reality systems may also be considered a form of VR that layers virtual information over a live camera feed into a headset, or through a smartphone or tablet device.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality
What is 360 Degree Video?
360-degree videos, also known as immersive videos or spherical videos, are video recordings where a view in every direction is recorded at the same time, shot using an omnidirectional camera or a collection of cameras. During playback the viewer has control of the viewing direction like a panorama.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_video
Best Way To Watch It?
The Samsung Gear VR is a mobile virtual reality headset developed by Samsung Electronics, in collaboration with Oculus, and manufactured by Samsung. The headset was released on November 2015.
When in use, a compatible Samsung Galaxy device (Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6/S6 Edge/S6 Edge, Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, Galaxy S8/S8, or Galaxy Note 8 is required) acts as the headsets display and processor, while the Gear VR unit itself acts as the controller, which contains the field of view, as well as a custom inertial measurement unit, or IMU, for rotational tracking, which connects to the smartphone via micro-USB. The Gear VR headset also includes a touchpad and back button on the side, as well as a proximity sensor to detect when the headset is on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Gear_VR
Daydream is a virtual reality (VR) platform developed by Google that is built into the Android mobile operating system. Compatible phones that follow the platforms software and hardware specifications (and are thus designated «Daydream-ready») are used in the Google Daydream View VR headset. The Daydream platform was announced at the Google I/O developer conference in May 2016, with the first VR headset released in November 2016. Daydream is the companys second VR platform following Google Cardboard, which was a low-cost system intended to encourage interest in VR and was built into compatible mobile apps rather than the operating system itself.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Daydream
A virtual reality headset is a head-mounted device that provides virtual reality for the wearer. VR headsets are widely used with computer games but they are also used in other applications, including simulators and trainers. They comprise a stereoscopic head-mounted display (providing separate images for each eye), stereo sound, and head motion tracking sensors (which may include gyroscopes, accelerometers, structured light systems, etc.). Some VR headsets also have eye tracking sensors and gaming controllers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_headset