{"id":808,"date":"2019-01-16T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/barbierilow\/?p=808"},"modified":"2019-10-07T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:33:13","slug":"professor-barbieri-low-lectures-in-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Professor Barbieri Lectures in Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"810\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?attachment_id=810\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/lecturestill-e1547681602246.png?fit=1069%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1069,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lecturestill\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/lecturestill-e1547681602246.png?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/lecturestill-e1547681602246.png?fit=648%2C363&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/barbierilow\/wp-content\/uploads\/lecturestill.png?fit=648%2C363\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-810\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I have begun to teach online courses in the summer, I have been experimenting with filming my classes using a 360 VR camera. Click on the link below to see the final summary lecture of my world history class. You can pan and zoom to see the class, but if you have VR goggles or Google cardboard, you can sit in the front row and get the real feeling of being there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B-thfsWujjM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/B-thfsWujjM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have begun to teach online courses in the summer, I have been experimenting with filming my classes using a 360 VR camera. Click on the link below to see the final summary lecture of my world history class. You can pan and zoom to see the class, but if you have VR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/lecturestill-e1547681602246.png?fit=1069%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdD41Y-d2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":841,"url":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=841","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":0},"title":"Virtual Wu Liang Shrine Remastered (2.0)","author":"barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu","date":"April 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Chinese Version Coming Soon, Too!) 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Most of these are about China or Egypt, and they are in a variety of languages. \u00a0It has\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-e1445891157859.jpeg?fit=547%2C410&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-e1445891157859.jpeg?fit=547%2C410&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-e1445891157859.jpeg?fit=547%2C410&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":764,"url":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=764","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":4},"title":"Professor Barbieri Creates Interactive Map of 15th Century Indian Ocean World","author":"barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"For my online History 80 (Chinese Civilization) Course, I have created an interactive version of the famous map found in the\u00a0Wubeizhi\u00a0(preface, 1621),\u00a0but\u00a0which was based on the knowledge brought back by Zheng He on his 7 voyages throughout the Indian Ocean for the Ming Emperors (1405-1433). \u00a0It records the place names\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapthumb.jpeg?fit=800%2C331&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapthumb.jpeg?fit=800%2C331&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapthumb.jpeg?fit=800%2C331&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapthumb.jpeg?fit=800%2C331&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1696,"url":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=1696","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":5},"title":"New Lectures Posted!","author":"barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu","date":"May 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"I have posted two new lectures to my YouTube channel. 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