I'm going to be showing you how to make a 360 degree video just using your
standard smartphone now there are cameras out there you can use for 360
degree videos which will give you much better quality than what I'm about to
show you however they tend to be a little bit expensive and this is just
a way to get an intro to 360 degree videos or your Google cardboard VR
headset you can also use it in a browser and you can also use your phone screen
moving around to see the scene so just to give you a quick demo this is pretty
much what we're going to be doing we're going to be showing how to record both
the front and back camera at the same time and then using a plug-in to splice
it together unfortunately as you can see in this video you don't have a right and
a left camera or an up and a below camera so you're literally just
stitching the front and the back camera together but you can still move around
in the scene with a headset and the effect is kind of cool it's a kind of
foe VR, 360 degree video but it still works and you can use the smart phone
you have right here right now to do that so first of all we're going to go
through the phone setup and then I'm going to show you how to do this effect
okay so to accomplish this you do need an Android phone I'm uncertain if
there's a way to do this on an iPhone if you own an iPhone please share and let
us know and what we're going to be doing is we're actually going to be dual
recording we're going to be recording from the front camera and the back
camera at the same time so we can inject metadata into it and splice the front
camera and the back camera together to make a 360-degree video so to do this
we're going to go into camera and obviously it's dark we can't see
anything as we're looking at what's on the table we're going to go to mode and
we're going to go to one called dual camera
now once the dual camera you can see that it has this in a window and the
other camera behind it just to lift this up a little bit so everybody can see
that it's using both okay so we've got that selected we're going to select mode
/ dual camera bring up the options and we're going to go to split view once
split view is selected up you can see me with the camera there awesome but now
what we have is a side-by-side view of the front and back camera and we're
actually going to record this and then we are going to put it into the injector
program which I will show you and then turn it into a 360-degree video that you
can use with VR headsets okay so we've gone ahead and recorded a
small side by side video as I showed you on the phone this is what it's actually
going to look like when you pull it in obviously you do have to plug in your
phone and drag the file to your desktop actually let me make a correction you're
going to drag it wherever this plug-in is and I'm going to provide the plug-in
below there's no installation you literally unzip it from the zip file now
I should give you a fair warning that depending on your
antivirus software or malware software it may pick it up as a virus or malware
the reason for this is it is actually injecting code into a file anytime that
occurs in computers it's a it throws up red flags so if you're able to ignore it
by all means so we're going to go ahead and open the plug-in
and we're going to open the video file now I've already done this because I
actually uploaded it to YouTube so let me let me go ahead and delete the one we
made so we can start from scratch here
and once you've opened it you want to hit spherical save as and as you can see
at the end it does say injected so we're going to save it
okay so that's it that's completed so what we can do now is we can actually
just upload this to YouTube YouTube will pick up the 360-degree metadata and now
you have a 360-degree video that everybody can see in the Google
cardboard oculus whatever headset you have so is this better than the actual
360-degree cameras no absolutely not because those lenses
see everything around it on that side where has this only literally is
pointing directly in front of you and directly behind you
also keep in mind if you go to view your injected video most players are just
going to play it as normal it doesn't understand the metadata and how to do
the 360 degree pan-ing there are some 360-degree video viewers out there that
you can use if you want to test it before uploading it but in all honesty I
would just upload it wait the five minutes for it to detect
the metadata and then go ahead and use it thank you for watching and I look
forward to seeing your 360 degree videos