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I have been following a 7 part tutorial series  by " Destined To Learn",  which is well written. Easy to create a working replica by duplicating the project in unity. Find the series here  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHcYq7eaxJTlXy8ldTp90Lw Which I highly recommend. I am happy with the final result as a great first project for me. With only a basic understanding of unity, following this series I have successfully created what is described in the tutorial. I recommend that if you try it. First download the invertedsphere model from the link provided. I did not and it took twice as long. Download assets here: https://gum.co/GRcUp First by using model created in unity, only showed grey on cameraview, error below When using mesh sphere created in unity.  Where normals will be on the outside  wrong for this project. Only then realizing it was the normals and seeking the answer to the problem. By finding a youtube video explaining, why it was the normals facing o...

 360 tutorial - studying for future projects by 360 tutorial - by  Destined To Learn It looks good and I am through the first couple of parts.  the channel is here  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHcYq7eaxJTlXy8ldTp90Lw Part 1 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRb7apZrCw

 Adding a video to the unity player. following two areas for learning this method, first being a video by Valem. Really good to get my feet wet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlQnPcOoYc Second, following an older Unity training https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/play-360-video-with-a-skybox-in-unity Which if you follow in a learning path of your unity profile, you can get credit for. there is also an 8 part set of videos for more in depth. this is part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf2Jb6tk1GY by  XR Producer Sarah Stumbo back in 2018 It is still relevant despite the age of the series. The 7th video in the series does hotspots, so I will be focused on that. And will configure that in my future content. https://youtu.be/NF1kydXPbLw

 360 video 3D Model uploaded to youtube with un-synced audio Need to learn to edit better, and how to add hotspots  and links to other clips inside the video so I can create interactive storylines in VR. I know this can be done by Articulate360, but I am looking for that low cost solution. Small steps, but this was a great step forward for this Learner.

 DAY58 My first 360 youtube clip, converted the top-bottom video exported from blender as images. combined the images with windows "video editor" very basic, but did the job. t hen edited the mp4 metadata using the inspector tool, github link above. Result uploaded. https://youtu.be/X5oOLsdRuno downloaded this, https://github.com/google/spatial-med... ================================================= converted the top-bottom video exported from blender as images ================================================= combined the images with windows "video editor" very basic, but did the job then https://github.com/google/spatial-media/releases I used the windows version 360.Video.Metadata.Tool.win.zip Then edited the mp4 metadata using the inspector tool, github link above. Result uploaded.