It’s my first day in Myanmar and there was this young woman cooking corn on a open fire at the intersection of two rather busy streets. The smell of the grilling corn was hard to resist but after the early dinner/late lunch I couldn’t eat another thing.
Douglas C-53 Skytrooper - Crash Site
During our recent Ponant cruise of the Kimberley Region of Australia. We wet landed at Anjo Peninsula in Vansittart Bay, and visited the remains of the wreck of a C-53 Skytrooper plane, that came down during World War II.
Places Lost: #1 Anglican Church, Samarai Island
In 2006, Sir Michael Somare, the then Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, in an address to the National Executive Council Meeting, said, "I declare Samarai Island a National historical Heritage island. In declaring it an historical heritage island we aim to restore basic services and refurbish its monuments and buildings as a tourist attraction. Ten years of inaction later this is the result.
African Daisies at Carrickalinga
Exploring VR with Daniel
I spent a very entertaining and illuminating couple of hours with Daniel Camilleri this morning during a break in his VR Testing at Adelaide University.
Here I'm testing the Oculus Rift and looking at a 360˚ panorama I shot from the walls of Dubrovnik, one of several of my panoramas Daniel is using as an introduction before the test begins.
Daniels doing research into reaction times to locate specific objects in 360˚ panoramas using Oculus Rift VR Headsets and driving game controllers. I helped him with loaner equipment and a lesson on shooting and without ever having shot or stitched a 360˚ panorama he went out to the Botanical Gardens in Adelaide and shot 200 panoramas that he incorporated into his testing platform. A fantastic effort and the results are very good.
He has also created a quick way to test for IPD, interpupillary distance, the distance between the center of the pupils of the two eyes with a funky pair of glasses that I'm modelling.
If you get the opportunity to try out the Oculus Rift I'd recommend it, some of the demonstration pieces that come with the gear are spectacular.