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Virtual Reality Visit of Hydroelectric Generating Facility

Description

Welcome to Hydro-Québec! With Marie-Ève as your guide, look around and discover the Baie-James region as if you were right there! Visit Hydro-Québec’s Robert-Bourassa generating facility in immersive virtual reality thanks to this 360° video. For optimal viewing, watch the video on your smart phone or tablet with the YouTube app or use a cardboard viewer or a virtual reality headset.

What Works Well

This video takes the viewer on an exploration of the landscape of the hydroelectric station, including dam and spillway through to the control facilities, all with supporting informational graphics and narration.

Discipline

  • Agriculture & Natural Resources
  • Engineering

Keywords

canada, careers, dam, electricity, generation, hydroelectric, power plant, québec

Source

Hydro-Québec

Level of Guidance

What does this mean?

The Level of Guidance indicates how much the creator has imbued the video with a sense of at what the viewer should be looking.

For instance, a Level 1 video would mean that the camera has been left in place while life happens around it, allowing you, as the viewer, to simply observe. A Level 2 video might incorporate subtle visual, textual or audible hints or simple transitions. A Level 3 video would rely on a handful of hints and transition. A Level 4 video would employ multiple hints and dialogue. And a Level 5 video would rely on all of the above as well as a narrative arc that pushes the viewer forward.

Another way of looking at this would be how much production went into the video if you are considering making one of your own like it.

Location

Watch in Class

Hydroelectric Generating QR Code