Senior Design Team sdmay21-02 • Immersive Experiences for Zoos and Aquariums (Virtual Reality Full Stack)

Overview

True360 aims to provide an immersive experience for customers going to zoos and aquariums. They do this by creating special moments called "WOW! Moments". These WOW! Moments are recordings from within a zoo or aquarium exhibit that signify something interesting happening. True360 provides the WOW! Moments to Zoo customers in the form of 360 degree video. The Zoo can then take the moment, and either share it through VR headsets at the zoo, in order to provide an immersive VR experience, or they can publish the video on various social media platforms to encourage customers to come to the zoo.

Unfortunately, there is a problem in that there is no way to publish these videos easily across multiple platforms within a user-friendly desktop application, while also allowing True360 to be a part of the publishing process. Current solutions fail to address all use cases needed by True360. True360 needs a way to be able to track which of the WOW! Moments have been published, and be able to obtain insights into video metrics such as views, likes, number of comments, and more. Without this, True360 isn't able to engage their business customers, and prove that these WOW! Moments are actually a valuable product, and eventually, it could cause True360 to lose customers.

Creating a way for users to upload WOW! Moments that is easy to use, extendable in functionality, and that allows True360 to tailor to their own specifications is crucial to the business needs of True360. This project's goal is to create just that.