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Everything for Virtual Reality: The VR Kit - REVIEW
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May 29, 2025
Ever wondered how they make those cool virtual reality images where you can move your head around and see different angles? Or use Google Cardboard and immerse yourself in a 360-degree world? Turns out you can get started with the fun and accessible VR KIT from Dermandar. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out The VT Kit and after some confusion over how it all works together, found it great fun and easy to use. In this review he shares his experience and shows off a couple of VR images on camera too. Learn more at http://www.TheVRkit.com/
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this is everything you need to enter the
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world of virtual reality let's find out
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whoa that is so cool oh hey Dave Taylor
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here and I have entering the world of
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virtual reality with my phone and this
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entire setup let me get to the setup but
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first my phone can you see that there's
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motion-sensitive and it's two visuals
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that are slightly different angle so you
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put them in your little VR goggles and
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it gives you a surprisingly good 3d
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effect more importantly though and I'll
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give you a close-up in a minute or so
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but more importantly as you move around
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it's as if you're moving in this virtual
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world so pretty cool stuff now
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everything I'm doing here is all part of
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this this is what's known as the VR kit
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reasonably enough from a Lebanon based
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company called derm and R and comes with
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a lot of stuff so let's walk through it
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the most interesting of all of them is
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this this is what's known as a 360
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degree rotator and I'll show you in its
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most basic watch the top so it rotates
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right pretty exciting actually it's much
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cooler than that because it's Bluetooth
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controlled and it works bluetooth with
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the phone with their app and we'll come
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back to that also includes this handy
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little stand which you can fold up if
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you want to travel with it
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but it comes out much more importantly
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in my book is that it's a quarter inch
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screw so on the bottom you can attach it
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to tripods and that's exactly what I've
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done with various test VR photos that
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have taken so where do people use this
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sort of stuff turns out to be really
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great for real estate because then you
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can sit there and it's like you're
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sitting in the living room looking
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around this potential house much more
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interesting and much more engaging than
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just a photo so let's get back to the
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rotator the rotator has three different
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speeds and it is battery-powered it's
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rechargeable it has a micro
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USB connection for you to be able to
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charge it and what's interesting is it
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actually stops on angular steps I'll
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show you that in a second now that also
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comes with a second mount depending on
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what kind of phone you have but I found
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that this one works great with my iPhone
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and everything's vertically oriented you
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can do a horizontal but then you won't
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get a PM the VR you'll get a panorama
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we'll come back to that too so now the
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next thing that it comes with the VR kit
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comes with this and this is a hundred
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and eighty degree prole ends it's a
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fisheye lens
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so you basically it's kind of like a
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clothespin right because now with modern
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phones they're you know the lens is not
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in a consistent location so the way you
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do this is you can simply do something
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like go and open your camera and then as
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I'm looking through my camera I clip
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this on until I get just the right
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fisheye I usually then do this so you
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can probably see there it's a pretty
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fisheye view and that's all you need so
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now we're gonna put it on the stand and
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then I'm gonna tighten it up a little
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bit we're still not quite ready to go
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but let me tell you it's for it's a
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four-element coated glass and it
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obviously works with dual phone cameras
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and our dual camera phones dual phone
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cameras hmm that's a new product line
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there and we're starting to see three
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camera phones and four camera phones
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whatever this should work with all of
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them because you just put it into the
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right place and then you're done so then
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the third piece of this is actually
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let's see the VR glasses but you don't
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really need these until you have some
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photos to look at and I will tell you
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this is exactly the same as Google
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cardboard just a little bit nicer a
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little bit more something you could
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actually hand to a client and not feel
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embarrassed but here's the cool thing
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about these VR images is that you don't
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actually need to use the dual I look or
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dual eyes system to get a really cool
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effect because you can have it and you
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can just move around and you can look up
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and you come you know move to the side
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and stuff you
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see these on Facebook and Instagram and
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this is how they take them so now to
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actually get all this to work and this
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is the part that took me a while to
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figure out for various confusing and
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sundry reasons but you need to get their
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VR program and the program is
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ingeniously called the VR kit so let me
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get back to it it looks like I'm going
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to need to go here and here and so now
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on the program it actually is already
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talking to my phone and the phone is
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then talking to the base so how does
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that work well let's see let's put this
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back on the lens make sure it's in the
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right place and now all I have to do is
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it says on screen it says tap anywhere
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to start and this is where the magic
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occurs so I tap it and watch it doesn't
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just rotate but it stops and takes a
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picture and then goes to the next spot
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and stops and takes a picture it's gonna
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be a really weird VR image because I'm
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really close to it but be that as it may
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it does this it'll do a full 360 and
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then what it'll do is it will actually
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stitch all the images together and give
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you and it's doing that right now so I'm
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gonna take this off and I'm gonna take
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this out of here so let's see so it's
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done now so now this is a scrollable an
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image of actually me shooting in effect
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there's my camera and you see that and
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then as I move the phone this way I
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actually can change it so it's sort of
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this whole weird experience and let me
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give you a close-up so you can see this
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close-up actually is of the tea shop
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over at celestial Seasonings just
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outside of Boulder Colorado kind of
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interesting it wasn't open I couldn't go
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inside the gift shop which would have
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been more cool but you can see it's
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pretty interesting how it lets you just
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sort of scroll or
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now these are really cool I really like
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it and so with the tap of a button you
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can switch it to a mode where it's ready
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to go with these glasses which seem a
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little dorky to be honest but the effect
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is worth it it's really cool and then
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there's apps out there there are there's
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the place called or an app called within
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for example that has VR sort of systems
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where it's like movie trailers and stuff
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or behind the scenes and so as it's
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showing the movie you can move your head
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around and actually see different angles
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really quite amazing I'm not sure I'd
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want to watch a two-hour long movie that
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way but for a minute or two trailer
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really neat so doing something like that
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is a little more sophistication than all
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of this so this is a nice starter kit
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for you so let me tell you again the VR
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kit comes with the rechargeable
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bluetooth 360-degree rotator and the
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little pro lens fisheye lens and an
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alternate mount and the smart VR goggles
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which I guess you could be like I said
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use Google cardboard if you wanted to
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the apps well you know the app works
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really well the VR kid app but they also
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have something called panorama which
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actually gives you the ability to go
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into like public streams and see what
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other VR images people are posting and
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stuff and that's gonna cost you a buck
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or two you don't need it to get all this
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to work and it's super fun again there's
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a little trial and you know a little
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sort of thrashing around I've found try
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to get it all to work right and you're
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gonna have to figure out where is the
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best place to put the camera because if
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you're thinking from a photography
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perspective you might think oh if I put
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it in a corner of the room then it'll
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give me a nice sweep of the room but
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you're getting the full 360 so what
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you're gonna get is you're gonna get
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half of that image be just walls really
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close so these sort of things work much
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better in the middle of rooms and then
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the trick the funny trick is as you're
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doing this then what I found is I
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generally want to walk slowly or
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around the camera so that you never
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quite see me in the frame so then it's
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just this mystery right now I could just
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sit here and do this and now you got a
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nice big image and I've kind of
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distorted image of my face and
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everything probably not gonna sell
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clients a lot of products but in terms
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of just experimenting really fun take
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this to your favorite nightclub take
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this to the office take this to
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conferences too you know certainly
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national parks are great outdoor
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locations all of these then make great
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images and like I said at the beginning
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if you really you know find that the VR
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stuff is interesting but not your bag
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then the actual 360 rotator also does
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really nice just regular old panoramas
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so using the panorama mode here on my
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iPhone in the Apple camera app I got
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really good results with some different
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shots you know and I was like traveling
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all over the Rockies experimenting with
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it and stuff and so it's really fun of
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course it's really for VR that's why
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it's called the VR kit not the panorama
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kit but all of this stuff all really fun
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and I think that you know with a little
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trial and error you can actually make
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some really cool get some really cool
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results here whether it's for business
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or pleasure or a hobby so I would
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definitely check it out and before we
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get to the price let me ask if you can
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go ahead and click on that subscribe
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button really appreciate it and give me
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some feedback always appreciate feedback
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on my reviews and my videos okay so the
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VR kit everything you see here except
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for my phone and phone case and by the
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way best results take your phone out of
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its case definitely makes a difference
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all of this is $99.99 at the VR kit calm
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I say check it out it's a really fun way
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to get into virtual reality and speaking
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of that I think I'm gonna get back to
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virtual reality so I will catch you
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sorry I will catch
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in my next video
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