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360 photo and video support
We've got a Ricoh Theta 360 degree camera which we're using to create immersive learning experiences.
I'm trying to find out if Storyline 360 has support for 360 photos but having 360 in the product name makes searching hard!
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Chris, try searching the forum for "virtual tour 360" and you will find some threads on that subject. Do you also need hotspots within the 360 photo to interact with Storyline, or will it be pretty much stand-alone?
Hi Chris! I haven't seen any examples of 360 photos and 360 videos here in the forums, but it would certainly be worth testing. I would recommend uploading the photos/videos to a web server, then embedding them in Storyline using a Web Object.
Be sure to come back and let us know how it turns out!
Any updates to this? I'm thinking of having a 360 photo of an industrial space and put hot spots over manuals, procedures, and warning labels to launch light boxes. i.e. have them locate the correct item in the room (think escape room games).
Can this be done with 360 photos?
Maybe the examples in this thread here provide some ideas.
Absolutely possible to do that in 360 photos/videos, whether its possible to integrate them within Storyline is the real question......
The main competitor to Articulate Storyline has released software version which introduces the option to import 360° media assets where you can add hotspots, quizzes on top of 360 elements. I'm hoping Articulate to update Storyline to VR experience friendly version soon :)
Hi Joanna,
I saw that announcement too. 🙂
Our team is keeping on eye on this new feature idea, and we'll keep you posted here.
Yes, my colleague and I trialed CenarioVR (Trivantis) and I saw a webinar for Adobe Captivate. Both had features and platforms to import 360 photos or video, then overlay hotspots that "live" in that 360 perspective. Each had triggers to perform actions like going to a new scene or panning to an object somewhere else in the 360 environment. Since we partnered with Articulate, using the 360 platform, and also would like to create these 360° experiences, we're hopeful that Arlyn will be telling us of "the new 360° feature in Articulate 360."
I'm following this thread. I have been an Articulate user for years. The Cenario VR product is very nice looking and the Captivate 2019 release has me itching to try it. Come on Articulate 360, 360, or maybe its called Articulate 360 squared???
CAn't wait for Storyline to come up with this functionality without having to pay more.
Thanks for chiming in to share. We are tracking this request and this conversation is attached so that we can update you with any news we have to share in the future.
Would it assist development if we gave examples of how we'd expect to use 360 photos and videos?
My plan is to use 360 photos for orientation and compliance purposes. I work for a geographically-dispersed health service so these are likely uses:
- Showing agency nurses the layout of a ward prior to their first shift.
- Showing staff the building evacuation routes for remote sites before attending (this would not replace real evacuation training, but would be a placeholder in the period between entering the building and receiving that training)
I've done some work editing 360 video in Premiere Pro. That software shows the full 360 canvas as an equirectangular image. This allows me to use the normal Premiere Pro tools to layer text and graphics over the top.
Using the information provided at https://www.360rize.com/2015/02/4k-vr-360-video-what-is-it-and-how-can-i-produce-it/, a video which is viewed at 1024 pixels wide (common for many SCORM packages) would require an equirectangular image of 4096 by 2048 pixels.
If Storyline could provide a special slide which requires an equirectangular image to be used as the background, then the standard Articulate tools could be used to add labels, hotspots, triggers and timeline-based events.
When the slide is rendered (i.e. viewed in preview, or exported for web or LMS) then it is shown in a player which allows the learner to pan around the image.
The following extra triggers would be useful:
- The ability to centre on a particular point of an image. For example, the learner clicks a button labelled "fire extinguisher" and the view pans to centre on the fire extinguisher
- The ability to choose whether the player has buttons to control panning, whether the learner drags the image to control panning, or both or neither.
In theory, this technique could be used for video too.
Yes, that is helpful Chris and I'll be sure to add this to the details of the request.
I have a Ricoh Theta 360 camera and am exploring the use of 360 images and video. I got Captivate 2019 to develop and test out possible new elearning approaches. It is very easy to import the 360 images or video into Captivate and add markers to it.
There are certainly many exciting possibilities for using this software, not only for training / education, but also for virtual tours of museums, historical buildings, tourist attractions and homes for sale. So this combination expands the number of potential clients that I can serve.
However, one note of caution. I notice that working with 360 images/video requires a lot of computing power. So unless StoryLine becomes available in a 64 bit version, I don't see the 360 degree option being workable / feasible on the present SL 32 bit platform. (One thing I really love about Captivate (64 bit) is that there is no lag when using the timeline; with SL I have to wait 3 to 7 seconds every time I want to synchronize voice over with animation).
Russ
That's a great point. If I accidentally put too many high-resolution images onto a slide, Storyline will usually crash. I've got 32Gb of RAM in my workstation, but Storyline's stubbornly refusing to access more than the 3Gb limit of a 32bit application.
360 images and photos could exacerbate this issue.
