This README.txt file was generated on 20190913

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title of Dataset: Shakespeare VR - Final Video

This deposit contains the final, edited 360º video scenes from the Shakespeare-VR project.

The Shakespeare-VR project uses virtual reality technologies to bring students face-to-face with professional actors performing Shakespearean soliloquies in a replica of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Playhouse. Directed by Shakespeare scholar and Digital Humanities specialist, Prof. Stephen Wittek, the project combines the talents of partners from the virtual reality production company Stitchbridge, the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation, the CMU Center for Digital Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Research, and Publishing (DSHARP), and the American Shakespeare Center. In addition to providing an exciting, immersive introduction to the spaces Shakespeare had in mind when he composed his plays, the project makes an important contribution to the growing body of research on virtual reality in humanities education. Shooting at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia took place in November, 2018. The virtual reality experiences include scenes from Hamlet (1.2, 2.2, 3.1 & 5.1), and a virtual tour of the ASC Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA.

2. Author Information

  First Author Contact Information
      Name: Stephen Wittek
      Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
      Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
      Email: swittek@andrew.cmu.edu


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. Blackfriars_tour.mp4:                ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]

A narrated immersive tour of the Blackfriars Theater.

2. Act1_Scene2_far-view.mp4:            ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
3. Act1_Scene2_middle-view.mp4:         ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
4. Act1_Scene2_close-view.mp4:          ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
5. Act2_Scene2_far-view.mp4:            ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
6. Act2_Scene2_middle-view.mp4:         ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
7. Act2_Scene2_close-view.mp4:          ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
8. Act3_Scene1_far-view.mp4:            ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
9. Act3_Scene1_middle-view.mp4:         ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
10. Act3_Scene1_close-view.mp4:         ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
11. Act5_Scene1_close-view.mp4:         ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]

Each video contains a soliloquy from William Shakespeare's _Hamlet_ filmed from a different viewpoint.

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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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These videos were captured and edited by Stitchbridge (Pittsburgh, PA <https://www.stitchbridge.com/>) using a YI HALO Google Jump camera rig.

The 17 individual video feeds were stitched together using Google's Jump Assembler Cloud platform. (n.b. this service suspended operations in June 2019.)

3. Date of data collection 20181111