This week I experimented with Scene VR as a potential tool. I was also trying to get a sense of the diversity that the Greenway presented, even within a half hour drive from Geneseo, so I found myself following the thin gray line of the trail on my Maps app attempting to find some good places that I could easily access the trail. This situation proved much more difficult than I imagined; at some points where it claimed the trail was, I was met instead with a creek or at times a small dirt one-way street. As the weather warms up though, I am hoping to be able to bike a little along the trail so, rather than hopping along it, I can see the trail in a much more continuous way.

I chose to try out the Scene VR tool because I thought it could potentially be an interesting way to display the diversity that the trail offers. Lizzie and I were thinking about doing some sort of map of the Greenway with videos that we take to showcase the different parts along the trail, so I am thinking that something like this could be an alternative if we decide. Using Scene VR was very simple, besides the fact that it took me a while to figure out what kind of image files to use (your photos have to be uploaded onto Flickr beforehand), but once I figured that out it was very simple. The photos I used are all panorama photos that I took with my iPhone. The one thing I do not like about the way it turned out though was how the pictures do not have a lot of height to them, resulting in the black space above and below. I am wondering if a GoPro might work better, or if anyone has any other ideas about this. I also do not love how the text is just at the bottom because I feel like it could be very easy to not pay attention to. I know the New York Times has 360 videos that they do where text shows up directly on the image, which I think would definitely be more ideal. So if anyone has any idea about applications that can do that, that would be great too!

I had some trouble embedding this also, so below is a link that should work.

http://scene.knightlab.com/scene.html?source=1uPyHmcAXXtL-2EJYrgmErwnq_zxfpOKb-u0VUmj84Vc