360° films about Bydgoszcz — ready today
11 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 Bydgoszcz
11 films about Bydgoszcz, 61 min of flight in total: Mill Island and Bydgoszcz Venice (by day and at night), the Bydgoszcz Canal with Lock IV and the Old Canal with the Planty park, Okole and the Brda, Castle Hill and Długa Street, Freedom Square, Gdańska Street, Piastowski Square and Dworcowa Street.
The guide tells the stories of particular places: who paid for the Archer statue, why Okole was once called Schleusenau, where an architect hid his own face on a façade in Gdańska Street. The facts come mainly from Wikipedia, and the guide's full text is under every film.
The films are in 8K (7680×3840), 60 fps. They work on YouTube, in DeoVR, on phones and in VR headsets — from today, with no extra work on your side.
| The Island That Kept Working | Wenecja Bydgoska · Mill Island · Rother Mills | 8 min |
| The Suburb Named for a Lock | Lock IV Wrocławska · Bydgoszcz Canal · Okole | 8 min |
| The Long Wait for the Tram | Okole · Łokietka Street · Brda river | 8 min |
| Castle Hill, Remade and Renamed | Castle Hill · St Andrew Bobola Church · Kościeleckich Square | 7 min |
| The Street That Outlived Its Rulers | Freedom Square · Casimir the Great Park · Aronsohn Villa | 5 min |
| Who Runs the Square | Piastowski Square · Piastowski Square market · Sacred Heart Church | 3 min |
| What Prussia Left | Queen Jadwiga Bridge · Dworcowa Street · Railway Directorate Building | 3 min |
| The Market That Stayed | Piastowski Square · Śniadeckich Street · Hotel Brda | 3 min |
| Built by Bakers and Barbers | Gdańska Street · Freedom Square · Pod Orłem Hotel | 7 min |
| The River Road to Berlin | Opera Nova · Mill Island · Rother Mills | 5 min |
| The Canal Dug in a Year | Old Bydgoszcz Canal · Canal park · Okole | 5 min |
- 2,500+views of the films about BydgoszczYouTube + DeoVR, public counters, as of 29 October 2026. Only the films of this series about Bydgoszcz.
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: 500+ (views of the films about Bydgoszcz, 29 October 2026)
- DeoVR: 2,000+ (views of the films about Bydgoszcz, 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.
There are no scans of Bydgoszcz yet — below are examples from Opole and Lublin that open in a browser, with nothing to install.
What a pilot could look like: a granary on the Brda or the church on Castle Hill, scanned outside and inside. A QR code at the entrance opens the model on a phone — you can look down on the roof and the tower, or “cut” the building open and look in at a height visitors cannot climb to.
The cathedral and Old Town streets (an example from Opole)
A 3D model in the browser, nothing to install
University of Opole (an example from Opole)
You can fly a drone through this scan in a simulator
Lublin's Old Town, the largest of my public scans
259 million splats, 13 levels of detail
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 Mill Island and the Brda 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 a granary on the Brda: 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 of the city — that is how the ShramkoGSFPV drone simulator works.
Scans for filmmakers and game makers
Gdańska Street, Okole or Mill Island 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).
I live in Bydgoszcz — I am happy to meet at the city hall and show the films in a headset on the spot.
How to start
- Watch one of the films about Bydgoszcz.
- A 30-minute conversation — online or at the city hall.
- 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. 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 of your choice.
Who arranges the permissions to fly over Bydgoszcz?
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 Bydgoszcz 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. The captions mean it also works with the sound off — on a phone, on a tram, at a stand.
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.