01/06/2016
So I was cycling along minding my own business when BAM! The panoramas stopped. And didn’t come back. I’ve no idea why. I checked the route before hand and it seemed fine so who knows. I’m pretty sure it will be fine tomorrow…
01/06/2016
So I was cycling along minding my own business when BAM! The panoramas stopped. And didn’t come back. I’ve no idea why. I checked the route before hand and it seemed fine so who knows. I’m pretty sure it will be fine tomorrow…
31/05/2016
Second half of Dartmoore National Park. Past through some great villages. Had a HUGE panorama drop out of about 6-7 minutes.
30/05/2016
Some lovely cycling through the Dartmoor National Park today. Most of it was taken early morning so the sun was shining through the trees. Also idly wondered at what point it would become possible to give people some new ability in VR (like telescopic vision) that become so innate and essential that they become disappointed joining real reality because it’s missing again.
29/05/2016
No cycling today. It got stuck at about 90% loading in the textures. Not had time to debug it.
28/05/2016
I left Cornwall today! I crossed over River Tamar into Devon. My first county complete. Also removing the white boxes… bad idea. Worthwhile test though because it proved my suspicion that nausea would be worse without them.
27-05-2016
Had to reset the direction data I get from Google maps today. Basically it will only take up to 8 way points (plus the start and end) which I’d maxed out just getting to this point so I have to regenerate a new path starting from my previous end point. I’m going to try removing the white boxes tomorrow and see how that goes. I don’t think I’ll like it. I’ve also started putting in the date at the beginning of each blog post again because WordPress doesn’t show me the dates when I’m editing.
Also I forgot to put an entry in for yesterday. I passed a group of people doing a marathon. It was great fun!
Passed through St Neot today. Very nice little village. Also my cadence fix seems to have worked. Also put in a system to automagically update an image of the map and directions that I’m following which you can see on the right of the blog. I’ll also use that image to integrate into my videos from now on.
Tried to add this yesterday but WordPress was having a moment. Anyway much better today after the previous attempt. Back on straight-ish country roads. Will attempt a fix for the bluetooth cadence strangeness in the next session. Also added a ‘you are here’ map on the blog.
So. A couple of ‘interesting’ milestones. I passed 100 kilometes! Yay me. Also I went through Bodmin. Yay I guess. Also I got sick. Not so good. Yes for the first time I felt proper sick in VR. Not sure if it had anything to do with Bodmin. Actually I suspect it’s because I was going through all the small streets and the panoramas are all over the place so the camera was being yanked everywhere. I have a feeble stomach at the best of times.
Just made it to the edge of Bodmin. Also started editing some of the videos today. It’s going to take a long time so the more I can automate it the better. I’m putting a map in the top left corner of each video with a pointer to show where I am so i’ll need to automate that process with a Javascript page.