In a first of its kind experience, a group of filmmakers from the Whistling Woods Jio VR Lab will be shooting time-lapse videos of the on going construction of Colaba – Bandra – Seepz 33.5km Metro-3 Line in Mumbai.
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A group of seven filmmakers will shoot Virtual Reality videos of the making of the fully underground metro line over the next two years.
Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) believes that this is expected to have a tremendous viewership value and they will be also putting out videos to update citizens about the work progress.
Team is currently doing a recce of the various sites to shoot time-lapse videos of the stations and the tunnels.
Chaitanya Chinchlikar, VP at Whistling Woods International a Film Institute in Mumbai said, “the project has been undertaken as an academic endeavour, and the footage will be made available for public consumption later”.
Whistling Woods has proposed to film 360-degree VR videos of Metro-3 sites to apprise students with the scale of the project and how systematically the work is being done.
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Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. The Whistling Woods JIO VR lab aims to play a pivotal role within the global virtual reality community. It is dedicated for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry with the idea to create the first generation of cinematic VR filmmakers in the Indian film, media and entertainment industry. Applications of virtual reality can include entertainment and educational purposes. Currently standard virtual reality systems use either virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments to generate realistic images, sounds and other sensations. More Info
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