Redeemer Lutheran was a church that existed a dozen blocks or so off from Redeemer Episcopal and when the maintenance of the church building for the Episcopal church finally became untenable, due to the church shrinking, in the 2010s, the remaining Episcopal church members mved to the Lutheran building, sharing the space and scheduling time slots with them.
The closure of the church led to a 'final service', a 'final La Roca summer camp' and an 'organ decommissioning ceremony' where the church organ was used in worship for a final time in 2016.
About a year ago, Boy Scout Troop 4 also finally closed down. Both the church building and the troop had been running for about a century when they closed.
A sale of carefully compiled video material on a four-disc DVD set or on a single HD BluRay was able to raise some $400 above the materials costs, in early 2017 and those funds have since been the basis for ongoing development of the Redeeemer VR tour which aims to recreate the entire church building in the Unity game engine, using 450+ high-res photographs as reference to reconstruct the entire thing as it once was.
That's consumed about one hour every week for me since 2017. I'm being paid effectively $1 per hour in my mind anyway, to do this, and it's uncertain whether even then the thing will be finished before that funding runs out in mid-2020. I may have to do the second half without any pay and just... accept that it'll wind up coming out to roughly 50 cents an hour. Which isn't that far off from what I usually earn. (Not even joking, sadly)
Click here to see a side by side 3d HTML5 early teaser preview for this VR-tour project.
The closure of the church led to a 'final service', a 'final La Roca summer camp' and an 'organ decommissioning ceremony' where the church organ was used in worship for a final time in 2016.
About a year ago, Boy Scout Troop 4 also finally closed down. Both the church building and the troop had been running for about a century when they closed.
A sale of carefully compiled video material on a four-disc DVD set or on a single HD BluRay was able to raise some $400 above the materials costs, in early 2017 and those funds have since been the basis for ongoing development of the Redeeemer VR tour which aims to recreate the entire church building in the Unity game engine, using 450+ high-res photographs as reference to reconstruct the entire thing as it once was.
That's consumed about one hour every week for me since 2017. I'm being paid effectively $1 per hour in my mind anyway, to do this, and it's uncertain whether even then the thing will be finished before that funding runs out in mid-2020. I may have to do the second half without any pay and just... accept that it'll wind up coming out to roughly 50 cents an hour. Which isn't that far off from what I usually earn. (Not even joking, sadly)
Click here to see a side by side 3d HTML5 early teaser preview for this VR-tour project.