360° films about Opole — ready today
6 films with a guide and captions — on YouTube and in DeoVR
Finished 8K 360° films about your city, with the guide in captions and watchable with the sound off — ready to show from today on your website and in VR headsets.
Author: Andrii ShramkoWhat is ready for Opole
6 films about Opole, 42 min of flight in total: Pasieka Island with the Piast Tower, the Młynówka and the Penny Bridge, Ostrówek and the Millennium Amphitheatre, the cathedral and the Old Town with its Market Square and town hall, University Hill with Copernicus Square, and Olga “Kora” Sipowicz Square by Opole Główne station.
The guide tells the stories of particular places: how Polish protests saved the Piast Tower, why Zaodrze was flooded during the flood of the millennium, what the room beneath the Nike monument hides. The facts come mainly from Wikipedia, and the guide's full text is under every film.
For Opole there are also finished 3D scans and a flight over them in a browser-based simulator — details below, in the section on heritage. The films are in 8K (7680×3840), 60 fps and work from today: on YouTube, in DeoVR, on phones and in VR headsets.
| The Town That Kept Its Polish Voice | Ostrówek · Pasieka Island · Opole Philharmonic | 10 min |
| The Island Where Opole Began | Pasieka Island · Ostrówek · Młynówka channel | 6 min |
| The River That Spared the Old Town | Opole Cathedral · St Sebastian's Church · St Alexius' Chapel | 6 min |
| The Capital of Polish Song | Olga "Kora" Sipowicz Square · Main Post Office · Opole Główne station | 5 min |
| The Castle That Left a Tower | Opole Cathedral · Piast Bridge · Piast Tower | 10 min |
| The Hill That Kept Changing Hands | Copernicus Square · Solaris Center · University Hill | 5 min |
- 1,000+views of the films about OpoleYouTube + DeoVR, public counters, as of 29 October 2026. Only the films of this series about Opole.
How we count
We add up the public view counters of YouTube and DeoVR — views are events, so they can be summed. We never add up subscribers or the number of films, because the same film is on both platforms. Hours watched are shown only when a platform has reported them, never worked out from film lengths. Facebook is not included. Numbers are rounded down and refreshed once a month.
- YouTube: 200+ (views of the films about Opole, 29 October 2026)
- DeoVR: 700+ (views of the films about Opole, 29 October 2026)
YouTube + DeoVR, public counters, as of 29 October 2026
Embedding the films from YouTube on your websites needs no paperwork. Screenings, 8K files and trade fairs — we will agree the terms when we meet.
Accessibility: every word on screen
Every word of the guide is on screen. The captions are burned into the picture (open captions, WCAG 2.1, success criterion 1.2.2), so they work on YouTube, in DeoVR and in headsets. For now the captions are in English, like the narration (a synthetic voice); there is no audio description.
The same text stands in three places around the viewer, and one copy is always next to the place the guide is talking about — in a headset, the caption is where you look. The guide's full text is also under every film.
Captions in 360° films are still rare — in this series every film has them. Poland's Digital Accessibility Act refers to WCAG 2.1, and criterion 1.2.2 covers captions for recorded video. If you need a version with Polish captions, please send us a message — we collect these requests, and they decide which films get Polish captions first.
Heritage and 3D scans
A 3D scan of a historic building is documentation for the heritage conservator and a model in which visitors can see up close what cannot be seen from the ground.
In Opole the examples are right here: scans of the cathedral with the Old Town streets and of the University of Opole open in a browser, with nothing to install. You can also fly a drone over the Opole scans in the ShramkoGSFPV simulator — this is how a scan of a historic building becomes a game or a virtual tour.
The next step could be the Piast Tower or Holy Trinity Church: a scan outside and inside, and a QR code at the entrance that opens the model on a phone — with a view of the roof and the tower from above, or in cross-section, right up to vaults that visitors cannot get to.
The cathedral and Old Town streets of Opole
A 3D model in the browser, nothing to install
University of Opole
You can fly a drone through this scan in a simulator
Muster Truck Show Opole
An outdoor event captured in 3D
Flying over the Opole scans in the ShramkoGSFPV simulator
A drone in the browser, real 3D scans, open source
A QR code next to a historic building will open its 3D model on a phone; on Android, in AR mode too.
What else we can do
A VR stand at an event
A flight over Pasieka and the Młynówka in a headset — at a fête, a fair or a picnic, without leaving the tent.
A screening without headsets
A big screen, a kiosk or a 360° room that you walk into and fly over the city without a headset. We will prepare the file in the room's format.
A 3D scan and a QR code at a landmark
For example the Piast Tower: a model on the phone, seen from above, from every side and in cross-section.
3D games and tours in the browser
Nothing to install, built on real scans — like the flight over Opole in the ShramkoGSFPV drone simulator.
Scans for filmmakers and game makers
The Młynówka, the Market Square or University Hill as locations for virtual production, games and student projects — under an open licence, with the author credited.
Permits and paperwork
I handle the aviation paperwork with PAŻP and ULC (Poland's air navigation agency and Civil Aviation Authority) myself. From the city I need permission for the take-off sites and, for historic buildings and interiors, the consent of whoever manages them.
Over gatherings of people I fly only with a ULC permit. We blur faces and number plates in the scans.
Qualified UAS operator (A1/A3).
For years I lived in Opole; today I live in Bydgoszcz. For 10 years I have been helping to build Opole's FPV community — races, events, workshops. With MOSiR Opole I co-organised the Drone Pilots' Picnic (Piknik Droniarza) at the Toropol ice rink, and since 2023 I have been teaching at the University of Opole: 360° film, 3D scans, AI agents.
How to start
- Watch one of the films about Opole, or the cathedral scan.
- A 30-minute online call — at a time that suits you.
- A pilot in one place — a film, a scan or a VR screening.
An e-mail address is all we need — we will send the materials and reply
Thank you — your message has arrived
Andrii Shramko will reply to the e-mail address you gave.
Questions
Can the city embed these films on its website?
Yes. Embedding the films from YouTube on city and institution websites needs no paperwork. Screenings at events, 8K files and trade fairs — we will agree the terms when we meet.
Do the films have captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers?
Yes. Every film has open captions burned into the picture (WCAG 2.1, criterion 1.2.2). For now they are in English, like the narration; you can ask for a version with Polish captions through the form on this page.
Can a historic building be scanned in 3D and shown in AR via a QR code?
Yes. The scans of the cathedral and the University of Opole already work in a browser. A QR code next to a historic building will open its 3D model on a phone, on Android in AR mode too. We suggest starting with a pilot for one building.
Who arranges the permissions to fly over Opole?
I handle the aviation paperwork (PAŻP/ULC) myself. The city needs to give permission for the take-off sites and, for historic buildings and interiors, the manager's consent.
How can Opole promote tourism with a 360° film?
The film can be embedded on a website and on social media, shown in VR headsets at an event, or played on a big screen at a tourist information point. In Opole there are also the 3D scans and the simulator flight over them — a ready-made show for a fête, a fair or an open day.
Andrii Shramko
Engineer and filmmaker, living in Bydgoszcz. I have been filming 360° in motion since 2015.
What you can check
- My 3D scan illustrates the NVIDIA Omniverse documentation, credited to Andrii Shramko
- World Labs: my scene “Poland”, 106 million splats — the largest in their Spark 2.0 article
- “Touching the Sky” — a VR film by Red Bull × Meta, 2025 (making-of on Red Bull TV)
- Immersive Warsaw 2026: speaker, “The Camera Doesn't Exist Yet”, 5 November 2026, Kinoteka
- Lublin's Old Town as a 3D scene: 259 million splats, 13 levels of detail — the largest scene on my profile
- ShramkoGSFPV: a drone simulator in the browser, flying over real 3D scans — open source
I almost always work with a team — that is why I write “we”. We will agree how to work together when we meet.