As most of you know by now, I have a website where I show my memory palaces. Today I had a day off, so I decided to try something new, add a video instead of a map. The quality of the video is crap, and I’ll have to find a way to improve that, but I’d love to have your feedback on the format for upcoming memory palaces on the page.
You can see an example here:
Please let me know what you think and how I should improve te page I aim to make the virtual tours as understandible and good as possible, so other people can use them easily.
Hi Maya,
I am very impressed by the quality of your latest memory palace (training grounds) with video. Thank you SO SO much for your willingness to share with us.
I find it very difficult to follow other people’s memory palace without a video as I can’t see the relative positions of the loci, i.e. how the loci are connected with each other. Your video has made it very easy to follow.
I can’t imagine how much effort and time it will take to produce a video of such quality, can’t really fault it. If I have to make a suggestion, maybe a little verbal/written description of the “direction of travel” may be helpful, when the path from one loci to another is not obvious. I.e. The only part I cannot follow is how we get from 140 to 141.
Some examples of “direction of travel” could be, for example:
*Travelling through the tunnel located on the left of where we came in
*Travelling back from where we came in
*Heading in the 2 o’clock direction
*Turning right then left
Unless something is wrong with my computer, I don’t hear any sound on the videos. Some narration would help in addition to the numbers of your loci/stations.
Did you ever come across my discussion with Timothy Moser about using video games as Memory Palaces? If not, PM me and I’ll send you the link. I think you’ll find it interesting.
hypercam2 is a good free program to record your pc screen with narration – all at the same time. I really like it and use it to make youtube type videos.
I was really interested in seeing the video, but the page is not loading here (Wales). Is the site down at the moment ?
Anyway, I will watch it sometime, somehow. Hopefully you’ll create many more.
Hi Anthony. Would you post that link here please ? it will help people find the site faster. You could also make a page for it, to help newcomers, or just for interested old-timers.
PS. I’ve watched/read a lot of your work. Good stuff, keep it coming.
Due to a busy life I didn’t get to update my website for a while, so the past few days I have worked on it.
It mainly had a few problems that people pointed out.
The images stopped working. This had to do with the PhotoBucket services changing. It no longer allowed third party hosting, which meant that I could still place my images on PhotoBucket but couldnt use it to show on other websites, which was unfortunate. I now hosted them on a temporary spot while looking for a better alternative for PhotoBucket, just so the images would show again.
I started recording videos for all the palaces, to show the journeys better. I can’t do all of them just yet (some of the palaces are in locations of the game that have to be unlocked.) But I hope to have all of them uploaded by the time Christmas is around.
It used to have unexpected downtimes. This is a thing of WordPress itself and not my website unfortunately, if you catch my site to be down, try again a bit later and it might work again.
I aim to make the virtual tours as understandible and good as possible, so other people can use them easily.
I tried recording, but it wouldn’t work.