tchart@earthling.net, hart.todd@apple.com
thartVR.MOV (508K)
560x168
St. Edward's Univ., Austin, TX
QuickTake 200
handheld
QTVR Authoring Studio

My name is Todd Hart and I work for Apple in Austin, Texas. If you have to live in Texas, try to make it Austin. I am far from a VR professional (as you can probably tell). I'm getting a MA in Conflict Resolution at St. Edward's University in Austin and the view of downtown Austin is great from the school's front lawn (but barely visible here). This was actually my backup movie made with a handheld QT200 at the same time I was turning a mounted QT150. The shots from my mounted QT150 were really bad (I still can't deal with bright light with this camera). The QT150 did get more of the castle-like Main building up the hill, but that's where the Sun was (Ugh). Considering this shot was hand held, it's not too bad.

Useless trivia about the campus:
For football fans, the Dallas Cowboy's used to practice on the other side of the Main building. For Star Trek fans, Voyager's Tim Russ (Tuvok) understudied for Leonard Nimoy in Caligula in 1974 at the theater here (the roof just barely visible to the left of the Main building). And for movie buffs, the 1980's remake of DOA was filmed on campus and the "Tar pits" were located to the left of the track.