OK, here's a good one.
I am going to be starting a nice new job. The opportunity for travel is incredible. If I find out that my frequent flyer miles will get me down to WDW on long weekends, wahoooo!
So the question is, would a binaural recording of my trips through the park be interesting to you? Ah, what is another podcast about Disney going to add to the already great selection? Why bother?
Here is the twist. I am blind. This could be very interesting. How about having the opportunity to experience the attractions from my point of view? Not like you need much, just a pair of good headphones. You won't get that surround sound I will get in real life, but the idea is simple. I travel around, sometimes get lost. I run into some strange situations. Maybe I get accidentally sent to the wheelchair line because someone just didn't get it. Maybe they insist on escorting me through line queues. I don't know what they'll do, but you get to come along for the trip.
How about the fun of airport navigation, trying to find the Magical Express? How about the reactions as we approach a crowd of people in deep conversation, and they scatter before I have the opportunity to just walk around them? For a lack of better words, this could be an eye opener for a lot of you. This may even be humorous. Don't take it seriously, I won't. I just get asked questions like the examples below way too often to skip out on the opportunity to present a real answer.
* How do you navigate a theme park, or for that matter, anything unfamiliar without someone showing you how to navigate first?
* How will you know where you're at in the parks? Do you use sound queues? Do you have a superior sense of smell and superhuman hearing. (of course not, I just concentrate on them a bit more)
* How do you navigate crowds without breaking a cane or tripping everyone?
* Why are line queues nasty for you to navigate?
All would be answered in real life recordings and situations. This would be a sound seeing tour where I need you, the audience, to later describe for me what I was missing visually. In fact, that would be the best part. Imagine, if you know your stuff, could you take my audio and literally describe the scenes from a ride or queue from just the audio you heard or my description of where I think I might be? Here is hoping I get the chance to do this, and we'll all find out in the near future.
Ryan
I am going to be starting a nice new job. The opportunity for travel is incredible. If I find out that my frequent flyer miles will get me down to WDW on long weekends, wahoooo!
So the question is, would a binaural recording of my trips through the park be interesting to you? Ah, what is another podcast about Disney going to add to the already great selection? Why bother?
Here is the twist. I am blind. This could be very interesting. How about having the opportunity to experience the attractions from my point of view? Not like you need much, just a pair of good headphones. You won't get that surround sound I will get in real life, but the idea is simple. I travel around, sometimes get lost. I run into some strange situations. Maybe I get accidentally sent to the wheelchair line because someone just didn't get it. Maybe they insist on escorting me through line queues. I don't know what they'll do, but you get to come along for the trip.
How about the fun of airport navigation, trying to find the Magical Express? How about the reactions as we approach a crowd of people in deep conversation, and they scatter before I have the opportunity to just walk around them? For a lack of better words, this could be an eye opener for a lot of you. This may even be humorous. Don't take it seriously, I won't. I just get asked questions like the examples below way too often to skip out on the opportunity to present a real answer.
* How do you navigate a theme park, or for that matter, anything unfamiliar without someone showing you how to navigate first?
* How will you know where you're at in the parks? Do you use sound queues? Do you have a superior sense of smell and superhuman hearing. (of course not, I just concentrate on them a bit more)
* How do you navigate crowds without breaking a cane or tripping everyone?
* Why are line queues nasty for you to navigate?
All would be answered in real life recordings and situations. This would be a sound seeing tour where I need you, the audience, to later describe for me what I was missing visually. In fact, that would be the best part. Imagine, if you know your stuff, could you take my audio and literally describe the scenes from a ride or queue from just the audio you heard or my description of where I think I might be? Here is hoping I get the chance to do this, and we'll all find out in the near future.
Ryan
