You 360 Degrees Turn and Try to Look Away

September 8, 2016 8:24 AM

360 degree video in the middle of kittens playing. That is all.
posted by Talez (19 comments total)

i wuv you all with your teeny faces
posted by Kitteh at 8:40 AM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Now YouTube just needs to use its cat-tracking technology to allow me to automatically follow each individual kitten. I can only keep up so much by slowing down the video to 0.25x speed.
posted by No One Ever Does at 8:40 AM on September 8, 2016

I think I've finally found a reason to buy a VR headset.
posted by bondcliff at 8:58 AM on September 8, 2016 [7 favorites]

i wuv you all with your teeny faces

It's not so much the teeny faces as the SUDDEN GIANT CAT FACES when they look right at the camera, IYAM.
posted by Frowner at 9:21 AM on September 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

Did you pick a favorite? I picked four favorites.
posted by maryr at 9:23 AM on September 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

My favourite is the grey tabby.
posted by Talez at 9:26 AM on September 8, 2016

This needs the HappyFunSeptember tag.
posted by Pendragon at 9:31 AM on September 8, 2016

My friend suggested that all we need now is a web-controlled laser pointer.
posted by bashos_frog at 9:37 AM on September 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

My friend suggested that all we need now is a web-controlled laser pointer.

Well, there goes my productivity for the day.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:44 AM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

nb there are also TINY PUPPERS in the background
posted by poffin boffin at 10:12 AM on September 8, 2016

My friend suggested that all we need now is a web-controlled laser pointer.

Do I have the website for you!
posted by amnesia and magnets at 10:31 AM on September 8, 2016 [5 favorites]

Keep the sound off to avoid hearing the heart-rending cries of tiny doggies.
posted by allthinky at 10:48 AM on September 8, 2016

That looks great in Chrome but if you don't have 360 view, then watching it may give you a headache.
posted by bukvich at 12:06 PM on September 8, 2016

day=made
posted by lescour at 3:04 PM on September 8, 2016

They keep looking in the camera as if they are trying to locate the source of a million squees..
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 3:16 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

So fluffy. So fluffy!!!
posted by kitten magic at 4:21 PM on September 8, 2016

I can confirm that this is a most delightful amusement when viewed via a Google Cardboard compatible phone-VR-holder.

It's not fully "like being there" as there is no depth information - but when combined with a swivel chair and the freedom to spin round to track any particular kitten, it's certainly an adorable novelty.

I am stopping for an eye-break before I dive back in to track the ginger one.
posted by BuxtonTheRed at 4:43 PM on September 8, 2016

OK, I've tracked all of them now. Even with a Cardboard viewer it's really hard to keep any given cat in view the whole time when they leap over the top of you.

The sense of scale when they're sniffing right at the camera is amazing - these big huge tiny little fluffy kittenses towering over me.

Spinning round on a chair too much inside a 360 video can definitely lead to motion sickness though.
posted by BuxtonTheRed at 4:54 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Keep the sound off to avoid hearing the heart-rending cries of tiny doggies.

keep the sound off period; that music put me off the video. The 'whimsy' was just too much.
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis at 5:33 PM on September 9, 2016