Two cameras does not seem like enough for 360 video. You'd need two just to capture 180 degrees in 3D, and the quality would probably be pretty bad at the edges.
360 video that is not 3D is just weird, and not at all immersive.
'Stereoscopic' 360° is a really, really ugly hack. It's planar (i.e. stereo only works if you don't tilt your head) and has all sorts of stitching problems, scale problems if the inter-camera separation doesn't match your IPD (and because your neck rotates about a point behind your eyes, and you need to use a synthetic aperture, it also needs to match the rotation radios which is a different value), cannot handle head translation, etc.
Basically, you're either capturing a Lightfield for later reprojection, or you're using a stopgap hack. Think the old 'two colour process' for colour film: all that was available and a bit better than monochrome (and in may ways worse), but as soon as three-colour processes were available it became worthless junk.
So is immersive, 3D 360 capture actually possible? Or are we limited to CGI VR (perhaps generated from photometric scans or LIDAR or whatever) and flat 360?
If it only requires 2 cameras, those cameras must both have a >180 deg FOV, which is an impressive engineering feat indeed. The last 200 deg FOV lens I saw was 10 inches across and weighed a lot...
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p1esk - Monday, May 1, 2017 - link
Are there unlimited LTE data plans this camera can take advantage of?JeffFlanagan - Monday, May 1, 2017 - link
Two cameras does not seem like enough for 360 video. You'd need two just to capture 180 degrees in 3D, and the quality would probably be pretty bad at the edges.360 video that is not 3D is just weird, and not at all immersive.
edzieba - Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - link
'Stereoscopic' 360° is a really, really ugly hack. It's planar (i.e. stereo only works if you don't tilt your head) and has all sorts of stitching problems, scale problems if the inter-camera separation doesn't match your IPD (and because your neck rotates about a point behind your eyes, and you need to use a synthetic aperture, it also needs to match the rotation radios which is a different value), cannot handle head translation, etc.Basically, you're either capturing a Lightfield for later reprojection, or you're using a stopgap hack. Think the old 'two colour process' for colour film: all that was available and a bit better than monochrome (and in may ways worse), but as soon as three-colour processes were available it became worthless junk.
Meteor2 - Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - link
So is immersive, 3D 360 capture actually possible? Or are we limited to CGI VR (perhaps generated from photometric scans or LIDAR or whatever) and flat 360?Meteor2 - Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - link
Without any specs I don't think this was worth reporting.'Look, here's a box, it does things.' Whoop.
stephenbrooks - Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - link
If it only requires 2 cameras, those cameras must both have a >180 deg FOV, which is an impressive engineering feat indeed. The last 200 deg FOV lens I saw was 10 inches across and weighed a lot...