Spherical Daily Vlogs

As part of the research collective eleVR, M Eifler helped pioneer spherical/360 camera design, cinematography and editing techniques.

From June 16th, 2015 to June 16th 2016 they published a spherical video every weekday. This project was a first of its kind at a time when spherical cameras could only record a few minutes of footage and editing technology for the format was still nascent. The original blog post about the project is available on arcive.org. The a selection of the videos are available in the following playlist.

Suki Sleeping

Suki Sleeping is a first of its kind 2.5D immersive animation. For a how to visit eleVR

The Way Home

This piece is a form of volumetric collage. It was captured using a handheld 3D scanner then rendered as a camera path using Maya.

A COLLABORATIVE WORK

“A Collaborative Work” and was made by Arletta Anderson, on dance, Mike Rugnetta, on audio and me, M Eifler, on video. The artists worked with curator Ken Becker to create a site specific work at the Wattis Institute for Art in San Francisco where it was originally shown as a VR experience along side live performance, projection and generated sound.

Play/Room

Play/Room is a library, a database, an art installation, a YouTube channel, a memory palace and an artist’s studio. Play/Room is a room-scale mixed reality installation in which every physical object is linked/related to a spherical video. The links are printed and attached to each object and can be inspected using a handheld screen. Each tag also has the title of the videos printed below the code. When an object’s code is inspected by a player the associated spherical videos show up on screen. The view point can be changed both by moving the screen and swiping with one finger. The objects, and thus their attached videos, can be moved and reorganized within the room.

Excert below, for full piece visits eleVR

HyperlinkSpace

HyperlinkSpace is part VR web comic, part interactive choose your own adventure, part VR art. Explore neighboring worlds with liberated hyperlinks, no longer links between words on a page, but space travel, opening doors between places.

W, A, S and D rotate the view for those without a headset (with a bit of Q and E if you get really off kilter) and arrow keys move through space. Use spacebar to click on the EXIT signs to move between pages.

This video is a tour of the site.