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In the Americas
2012 · TV series · documentary · 25 min episodes · 7 seasons
Created by David Yetman
A travelogue that explores the landscapes, people and histories of North and South America.
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Onsite I used the Matterport capture app and Matterport Pro 2 and BLK 360. For the web version linked here, I built on top of the Matterport SDK with Three.js https://matterport.github.io/showcase-sdk/sdkbundle_home.html
So in the virtual tour, you're seeing 360 imagery from the cameras and a lower resolution version of the 3d capture data, optimized for web. The lower res mesh from the scanner is transparent in first-person view mode so users get cursor effects on top of the 360 image.
For film, PBS sent out a documentary crew, and they wanted me to render some footage of the full tunnel system, so I exported the e57 pointcloud data from Matterport and rendered the clips they needed in Unreal. It should be coming out soon with "In the Americas."