[Texascavers] A holiday video

2016-12-24 Thread David via Texascavers
Since today is the first day of Hanukkah, and in an effort to be politically-kosher, I thought I would share a fun video that is nature related. https://youtu.be/4wyAjCqelUY The ending of the video is the best part. David Locklear dlocklea...@gmail.com

[Texascavers] spectacular video of Hang Son Doong in Vietnam

2016-12-24 Thread Mixon Bill via Texascavers
Impressive atmospheric video by Ryan Debroodt of the main entrance and the two collapse dolines 2.5 and 3.5 km into the cave. About 6 minutes, much evidently shot from a drone. http://cavesaustralia.com/2015/zooming-through-hang-son-doong/ Merry Christmas -- Mixon

Re: [Texascavers] interesting news story

2016-12-24 Thread Alex Sproul via Texascavers
Have you never seen 360-photography before, David? It's not really VR, but it is 3D, if you have the right glasses. (The YouTube version doesn't offer the 3D.) I had to shut down everything else on my PC in order to run this, which said it was 4K, but the resolution was disappointing. I've

[Texascavers] interesting news story

2016-12-24 Thread David via Texascavers
I think you need VR goggles to enjoy this http://www.euronews.com/2016/12/20/the-choranche-cave-in-the-vercors-massif-reveals-some-of-its-secrets Click on the goggle symbol at the bottom right corner of the video If you move your mouse around the video changes viewpoint just like your head

[Texascavers] Happy Holidays with cave and karst news from NCKRI

2016-12-24 Thread George Veni via Texascavers
Dear Friends, Here are a few more announcements, just in time for the holidays: * Karst Session at the 2017 Geological Society of America Joint Northeast-North Central Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA * Solution Mining Research Institute Technical Conference, Albuquerque,