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jump enables any creator to capture the world in VR video video that you can step inside of and make it available to everyone has three parts a camera rig very specialized geometry an assembler which turns raw footage into VR video and a player sort of the camera so the rigs that we've built they include 16 camera modules mounted in a circular array you can actually use off-the-shelf cameras for this if you want and you can make the array out of basically any material we made one out of 3d printed plastic one out of machine metal and for good measure of course we also made one out of cardboard what's critical is the actual geometry and we spent a lot of time optimizing everything the size of the rig the number and placement of the cameras their field of view relative overlap every last detail now what we want to do is share what we've learned with everyone so just like we did with cardboard we're going to be opening up the camera geometry with plans available to everyone this summer so anyone who's motivated will be able to build a jump ready camera and today I'm excited to announce that GoPro plans to build and sell a jump ready 360-degree camera array and they're bringing their camera expertise to the jump Ready rig which will include shared camera settings frame level synchronization and other features that will allow all 16 cameras to operate as one next up it's what we call the assembler and this is where the Google magic really begins the assembler takes 16 different video feeds and uses a combination of computational photography computer vision and a whole lot of computers to recreate the scene as viewed from thousands of in-between viewpoints everywhere along the circumference of the camera ring and we then use these in between viewpoints to synthesize the final imagery stereoscopic VR video now assembling footage like this takes thousands of computers and we want to make this processing power broadly available so how are we going to make it so that anyone can experience it starting the summer YouTube will support jump so if you want to experience vr video all you need is the YouTube app you're art phone and some cardboard