Horse grooming mindfulness meditation.... Laura James 2021-03-06 | Just some horsey time for those who don't get to go to a barn and miss it. This is Zorra, one of the totally sweet lesson horses at Tashunka riding facility in Redmond, Washington. Next up, riding in 360....
Lighting test, #Insta360 #Pro2 in #mantisVR housing. Light and Motion #SOLA3000 X 2 Laura James 2021-01-27 | 4k export of lighting test at Alki Junkyard with Insta360 #pro2 inside Mantis VR underwater housing. I filmed with ISO200 and it was again, too dark deeper than 40' even with Light and Motion Dive #SOLA3K (not the lights fault, I'm just overly optimistic) above 40', evening light conditions was actually quite nice. In the future I'll use ISO400 when I know I'm going deeper than 40', with or without lights.
Another day another Supernatural... Modified play for touchy shoulders and knees. Laura James 2021-01-19 | I probably should have taken a rest day, this was kind of underwhelming. I used my own playlist but shared this with the game audio so you can see difference compared to yesterdays play without coaching.
Get Supernatural, modified game play with personal music playlist. Laura James 2021-01-18 | Modified game play for players with shoulder and knee issues. No big overhead swings, controlled end points to all swings, no fast lunge movements that put a lot of rational torque on the knees without IRL visual queues. Hops added in for big triangles to bump HR. Hip bob side to Side for increased HR.
OneHope Beatsaber Extreme MRC Oculus Quest/OBS Laura James 2021-01-17 | improved the keying... new personal high score.
Great Battery Roundup 2021 - Dive 4 - Get the Lead out! Laura James 2021-01-07 | dive 4 = removal of batteries from cove 2!!!
Great Battery Round up 2021 dive 3 Laura James 2021-01-02 | We were able to remove not 6 but 8 batteries from the debris of the Honeybear wreckage in cove 2. All 8 are now up in the freshwater lens intertidal zone in preparation to be moved up into the shallow shallows on one of our king tides and then removed from the water and taken to Seattle Iron and Metals corporation (SIMCO) recycling facility. Looking at the tides we should be able to manage that over the next few days. If you dive cove 2 in the meantime, yes there is a herd of batteries on the far side of the cove at the base of the riprap. Huge thanks to Lamont Granquist for his camera skills and Michael McGoldrick for his excellent lighting! (and the intrepid sea lion who joined us)
Great Battery Roundup 2021! Dive 2 Laura James 2021-01-01 | First Battery removed from the debris field of the "Honeybear" wreckage in Cove 2 in West Seattle
Great Battery Round up 2021 - First steps, prep for removal Laura James 2020-12-29 | cove 2, the wreck of the honeybear has degraded enough to expose its battery banks. On this dive we worked to remove the leftover decking so as to expose all the batteries (that we have found so far) and prepare them for removal.
#gestsupernatural game play - WOD dec 4, 2020 Laura James 2020-12-05 | working on keeping arms straight and powering/jumping out of squats...
Virtual Salish See - Alki Pipeline #3D #360 Laura James 2020-12-02 | Insta360 Pro2 goes underwater in the Mantis-VR housing mantis-vr.comIf you've ever visited this site and gotten lost trying to find the pipeline, this video will show you the 'way'. ;). Follow your compass course into the great unknown until you pass a garden gnome in the sandy expanse, keep going on that course until you encounter the second rock pile. On the way back, reverse your compass course and keep your eyes peeled for the garden gnome to guide you home... if you miss the rock pile on the way home, swim perpendicular to the current/eelgrass, don't panic and if you come up down the beach a bit just walk back to the entry point.
Supernatural VR Fitness app, Coach Mark, Medium Intensity. #awesomeness Laura James 2020-11-29 | This workout was for me personally exactly what Supernatural workouts should be, great music, great coaching, perfectly balanced energy that matched the workout. The mapping was also fantastic and fun with some new moves (far reaches) for an excellent cross body stretch. Oh and the best part about the combo of music and mapping is that at least 50-60% of the time I could bop to the music while still maintaining proper coach instructed form.... if I could give this workout 11 stars I would.
#getsupernatural quick hits Laura James 2020-11-28 | so things were a bit glitchy in my MRC sessions before this, now I know why ;). I'd like to say I added it for effect lolz. Old old GoPro finally giving me grief. time for a real streaming cam.
first test Mantis-VR housing and Insta360 Pro2 Laura James 2020-11-12 | I may have been a bit optimistic about the iso (200-400) but I'm really liking how this is turning out! full manual controls via the Mantis-VR app, 1/60, etc..
Just a dive Laura James 2020-11-10 | some buoyancy tests with the new Mantis-VR housing and insta360 Pro 2
beatsaber gameplay OBS MRC from Oculus Quest, second day of testing ...improvements Laura James 2020-10-29 | I need to talk to that moron who wore an invisibility head band... lolsame person also needs to wear more brightly colored pants. *sigh*
Supernatural on Oculus Quest gameplay Maniac Laura James 2020-10-26 | this is an amazing fitness app on Oculus Quest/Quest2, I highly recommend it to anyone that has found their fitness waning in these strange Covid times.
Lincoln Park kelp forest, north end of park Laura James 2020-08-31 | first real test of the KanDao QooCam 8k User Group in stock dive housing. Basically everything on auto, nothing done in post except some cutting and transitions. I was trying to simulate what the average consumer will do, not manipulate the image and camera settings both in camera and in post in a way that will be beyond the reach of many general users so you have an idea of what your results might -actually- look like. Its quite remarkable what you can do in post, but its also sorta false advertising especially with the consumer cameras as people buy stuff based on what they've seen 'on the internet' and then wonder why/how their footage looks crappier. This is a 4K downsampled export of an 8k project, again, more in line with what a general user without a big editing machine will be comfortable creating.So... all that put out there up front, enjoy... I think this is a nice showing in somewhat challenging conditions (massive exposure differences between lenses, color changes due to angle of sun and light streaming through kelp, hazy visibility....
Qoocam8k in DIVE housing, stitched with Qoocam Studio on PC Laura James 2020-08-09 | enjoy a bit of the emerald sea, watching a jellyfish be consumed by anemones... It looks so peaceful but there is in fact a life and death battle going on.
Sewing face masks with DiverLaura Laura James 2020-04-18 | Multistreaming with restream.io/?ref=v62KM
Cooking with DiverLaura: Kombucha Laura James 2020-03-18 | Not quite as entertaining visually as the previous couple of videos but i had to get the Kombutcha bottled and didn’t feel like making it into a whole production (meaning change out of lounge wear and brush my hair and put on my battle dress) so just went ahead with this for those who are Kombucha curious and worry that its way too much work. I’ve been using this method for almost 5 years now with zero ill effects, and incredibly robust and healthy SCOBY. I now run two X 2 gallon concurrently so we never run out of home brewed Kombutcha! So people worried about my hands or my jars or metal or whatever, make your Kombucha how you want, and I’ll keep doing what works for me :) Its super simple...The ratio is: 1 gallon of water10 tea bags1 cup sugar 1 SCOBY (symbiotic culture of Bacteria and Yeast). If you are local, as you can see, i end up with a massive excess of SCOBY and am happy to hand off (or in current situation, toss it to you from 6 feet away) 😉
Cooking with DiverLaura: Milk Kefir 101 Laura James 2020-03-17 | Learn more about how to make amazing Kefir at home thepioneerwoman.com/food-and-friends/how-to-make-milk-kefir
it is an iterative process, again and again and again Laura James 2020-02-22 | photogrammetry courtesy of Marine Imaging Technologies
Today’s progress Laura James 2020-02-21 | Photogrammetry image courtesy of Marine Imaging Technologies A few steps forward a few back. Colliders working but locomotion busted... ah well, if it was easy everyone would be doing it?
blender mockup of diver swimming over wreck, lighting test. Laura James 2020-02-20 | photogrammetry scan courtesy of Marine Imagining Technology
really rudimentary RED hydrogen one test... Laura James 2020-01-19 | projected into a stereo180 time line.
kelp forest with narration and avatar mock up Laura James 2020-01-06 | Please forgive the avatar's motion sequence, this is really just a rough proof of concept that I could make all the parts work for a pleasantly watchable mockup with a bit of moderately coherent narration. It will be way happier when I figure out the Unity 360 VR exporter because then all the fun lighting and stuff will be there, but for now... today's progress.narration from writings in Sea Otters vs climate change by Michael Werner ww2.kqed.org/quest/2014/01/14/sea-otters-urchins-kelp-climate-changeThis quote from Amanda Palmer sums it up pretty perfectly: you can do nothing.or you can do something.if you do something, you will be told you are doing it imperfectly.you will be scolded for getting the tone wrong, the sentiment wrong, the wording wrong, or the timing wrong.do it anyway. do it anyway.keep doing the things.the only alternative is to do nothing, and nowadays that’s exactly what nobody needs.keep doing.get it wrong. get it wrong. get it wrong.and keep going. the enemy of progress is perfection. keep going. keep doing.
more avatar tests Laura James 2020-01-05 | the VRexporter plug in in unity buggered up the timing and speed between the sphere and avatar. In unity in headset it looks pretty cool :D
