Sacred Spaces in 360°

Summary:

This project presents immersive 360° tours of four Chicagoland sacred spaces: First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Parish, and Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at Lake Forest College. The tours were created using Kolor's Panotour software, and are viewable on desktop and mobile browsers, as well as in virtual reality with Google Cardboard or other viewers. 

Faculty Chicago Fellow:

Benjamin E. Zeller, Associate Professor of Religion, Lake Forest College

Chicago Fellows Year:

2016

Chicago Fellows Research Assistants, Lake Forest College: 

Kristin Rawlings '19 and Julianne Mauriello '19, First Presbyterian tour

Nick Nusbaumer, '17, Pilgrim Baptist Church tour

Elizabeth White '20 and Isaac Winter, '20, Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel tour

Rocio Lopez '18, David Hernandez '19, Ashley Lamarre '18, Abby Stone Lauer '18, St. Stanislaus Kostka tour

Lazarus Brown '22, Rachel Peterson '22, Hira Sadiq '22, Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral tour 

Further Information: 

360° images in the First Presbyterian, Pilgrim Baptist, and Lily Reid Holt tours were shot using a Ricoh Theta S 360° camera, with DSLR images overlaid for the historical imagery as well as detailed images such as stained glass. 360° images for the St. Stanislaus Kostka tour were shot with a GoPro Omni camera system, with DSLR images as above. 360° images for Holy Trinity Cathedral were shot using a Canon Rebel DSLR, GoPro Omni, and Ricoh Theta V.

Software image stitching was accomplished with Kolor Autopano Giga. Image correction was done in Adobe Photoshop CC. The tours themselves were created using Kolor Panotour Pro.