Oh my god.
Oh my god! This is my new place!
it's got no furniture in it.
I'm not even supposed to move in yet, I'm moving in tomorrow, so I've got an empty apartment
here. I think I should show you around!
Front door
Kitchen
Dining room
Lounge room
Study
Laundry
Bathroom
Ridiculously long wardrobe
Bedroom
Pokemon go spawns
Seven
And this,
This is the place that I'm
gonna turn into my studio for YouTube, it has not only one,
not only two,
but three
walls that I can use as YouTube backgrounds.
Okay, now that it's out of the way, the real reason I'm here a day early, is because
I'm going to shoot a virtual tour of this empty space. Furniture's coming in
tomorrow morning and I want a clean record of this place while the walls are
still bare and I can see every last inch of this place. And why is that? Well,
firstly, I want to simulate what furniture is going to look like and how
much space it's going to take up before everything comes in.
Why else? Because I want to document this place so I can know exactly what it look
like the day I moved in, if there's any marks or anything, I'll know that they
were there before I moved in. Right here, there's a mark on the wall. Generally the
walls are quite good, but this is one of the only marks I found. I want to make
sure my landlords know this was here before I moved in and it wasn't because
of the massive YouTube backdrop I'm gonna put here. Finally, so I can do a
before-and-after of this place, empty and then with furniture, so years from now,
I'll be able to do another virtual tour and see exactly how things change and
see the history of this space that I know I'm going to have some epic
adventures and shoot some amazing videos in.
Now I'm gonna change weapons and this time I'm going to shoot the same virtual
tour but for documentation purposes. Which is where the higher resolution of
the Mi Sphere is going to come in handy. I don't need perfect dynamic range but
just for getting every detail in the wall and the floor, I'm going to try it
out and I'm going to show you how you can shoot a virtual tour in two minutes
or less. Yeah, that's right. You can do it, you need to shoot hand-held and what I'm
going to do is I'm going to hold the camera above my head duck and walk
around slowly and putting the camera in time-lapse mode so it's going to take a
photo every 0.5 seconds or every 2 seconds. I will point out that you won't
want to shoot like this for clients, this is purely for documentation so it
doesn't matter if I'm in the reflection of a mirror or if I'm in the shot at the
Nadir, because I'm shooting this only for my own records.
That's two minutes, I'm done and the sun is setting so I'm going to take an awesome
shot for Instagram.
Wait
it wasn't a dream was it?
Nooooo!
No, I'm just kidding. I'm here in my new place
and a week has passed since that last scene and basically all of my stuff has
been moved and I've bought most of my new furniture. Before I shoot my after
version of the virtual tour, I have some really exciting news. My very first
YouTube set is ready to go. I'm going to have about five or six throughout this
place, but the first one is good to go. So let me give you an exclusive first look.
Oh my God, how cool is this thing?
So cool!
Okay enough monkeying around, I've uploaded
my photos to CUPIX and my virtual tour has generated, and I want to show you a
bunch of cool stuff that I think will give you ideas next time you go out
shooting. Firstly, something really cool I discovered is the measurement tool, so if
you click the ruler, you can measure how far it is between two points of your
image. So I want to go from one corner to the other of my studio here. There we go,
I've placed a line, and it's saying 2.63m. You might be thinking how does it
know that? That's probably not accurate. and that's what I thought too, but then I
went and physically measured this and guess how long it is? It's 2.65m
So this tool is extremely accurate. And say it wasn't for some
reason, say it said 2.5, you can double-click it and overrule it, you
can say, "Hey, this is 2.65m" and it then learns that, and that
is now the scale that it applies to every measurement going forward, so it's
going to be even more accurate when I measure this wall, and this wall, and
every wall in this entire place. Okay, I'm gonna pause this screen recording,
I'm going to go physically measure this wall just to see how accurate it is, be
right back. Okay, I'm back in my computer, tape measure in hand, and guess what the
measurement was? It was 2.45m. That is incredible and I can
see how it's really handy if you're trying to predict the overall size of
the place, if you didn't have access to your site, then this would be a super
handy feature. Next, I'm going to document the damage to this wall and remember the
little mark from earlier, here it is and I want to put a note there so I know
exactly where it is in the house, I don't have to go looking for it. So I'm going
to go to insert pushpin and we're going to choose pick a common point from two
panos. So the mark is there, and roughly about here on this panel, and now we want
to give it a label, I'm going to say mark on wall and small scratch, so that way,
next time we revisit our virtual tour, we'll see that's exactly where the mark
is. You could also use this feature to include info about things in your tour.
So say this phone thing, if I wanted to put instructions about how to use it, say if
this was an Airbnb, you could put instructions for different areas of the
house within the actual 3D space. Now that is quite cool now I'm going to show
you how you can simulate an object within your virtual tour, and this was
particularly helpful for me when I was moving house because this is my bedroom,
it's not massive and we have a big bed we were moving in, and we were really
worried would this bed fit into this space, and will we have enough space to
comfortably walk around it. So here's what I did to solve that problem. I went
to insert a box, and what I did was create a box that represents the bed. Of
course measurements are going to be super important here so, I had the
measurements of the bed and it was as simple as typing them into width, height
and depth. Okay that looks right, now I'm going to hit lock movement and we have
an object in our space. Yes, it doesn't look like a bed, it looks like a box, but
it gave me a really good idea of how well this bed would fit into this space.
Now you can walk around the virtual tour. Is there enough space? Yes, there is
on both sides, so this was a lifesaver and meant on moving day, I didn't have to
stress about the bed not fitting into the bedroom. Now I'm going to show you
something mind-blowing which is one of the coolest uses of virtual tools I've
probably ever seen. So I'm going to go over to the publisher, and on the right
there's a compare list options, so I've gone ahead and reshot this entire
virtual tour with all my furniture in place. So I have two virtual tours that I
want to compare side-by-side. I'm going to hit the plus symbol, and now I'm going
to choose Ben's apartment after so it knows when the virtual tour player comes
up, it's going to have an option to compare two tours. So on the left I have
my before, and on the right I have my after. Keep in mind that I wouldn't have
got my placement exactly right. As you can see on the left, I put the tripod one
tile closer to the bathroom, but it doesn't matter so much as long as it's
relatively close to where it was, CUPIX we'll figure out the closest pano and
bring the viewpoint to the closest pano to the one on the left. Now wait for it
I'm going to step into my new apartment and see the true before and after look
at this. Oh my God, this is so cool, it's like
stepping back in time. This is my new apartment. I can't believe this, I'm so
happy with the furniture I got. But look at the difference between a completely
empty apartment and how I finished it, it just looks incredible. I've got to say
this is so fun to look at, I can't wait to shoot another virtual tour in say
three or four years and see how this space changes yet again. I could see how
this would be really handy for documenting the changes of business
places like restaurants, offices, anywhere where the display changes say, every few
years. It would be especially helpful with construction sites where there's
lots and lots of changes happening quickly, for builders to be able to track
the progress relatively quickly and see it side by side like this. As you can
see, the bed fit in nicely and this is my bedroom. It's not massive, but it has a
view of Sydney City right through there, it's a very nice sight to wake up to.
She wants to buy this painting for this wall. Firstly, it's way too bright, but also,
it's over a meter by a meter, we don't have enough space. If only there were a way
to simulate what this painting is gonna look like on the wall before we buy it.
It's too big, it's too big. Yes! We don't have to get it!
I'm so happy!
What about that wall?
By the way, more exciting news, look what I got
in the mail. It's the KANDAO QOOCAM. Yes, it's the camera with the new funniest name of
all the 360 cameras, I have it in my hands right now. Look, it's still really
early and I'm reluctant to release too much info about it, only because they're
going to be updating it so much in the next month or two, so I'm going to wait a
bit before I make a review, I'll tell you guys as much as I know, but really it's
going to be a complete camera in the next 1 to 2 months, so I'll release more
content then. How cool is this backdrop looking by the way? So cool, I'm gonna
take a QOO selfie. Okay 3, 2, 1 "Qoo". So that's it, that's my exciting news, we
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