Gadgetory

this is an example of the quality of content you can get off of the surround 360 v1 it's a shot in Grand Central Station and it gives you that ability to feel much more closely like you're there feel but we're not done yet we're not fully immersive there's more we can do so we want to push the immersion chain further one of the challenges of 360 3d photos is when I view them in VR if I happen to move around if I move to the left a little bit or move forward the world is still locked it's still locked wherever that camera happened to be placed and so we want to fix that problem and we've been designing the second generation this is the X 24 and the X 6 these are cameras designed in partnership with FLIR who's been working with us to integrate their camera modules into the center of them but what we've done is we've done a camera layout specifically designed to maximize pixel overlap and every single part of the scene not just around the outsides but in every part of the sphere and what that pixel overlap does is it allows us to take our expertise in computer vision and go to town we can get a very detailed per pixel depth map of every part of the scene that you're capturing with this camera which starts to break into this ability to solve this six degrees of freedom problem what do I mean by this this is what I mean you place a camera in a fixed position this is this camera that's around 360 prototyped shooting actual content I place it in the scene I then am a viewer and I put my VR headset on and as you're going to see she's going to move in a position the camera never was she steps forward she bends over and leans down she's looking at positions in the scene the camera was never there to capture but because of the quality of depth information the resolution and the arrangement of the physical Hardware of the camera and the quality of the computer vision code on the back end were able to recreate views that didn't exist before to give you that sense of immersion like I can move around and be in that scene this is what we mean by really immersive video context we're going to get these cameras into people's hands this year we're working with a variety of partners we've learned a lot in the last year about how filmmakers like to produce in the real world so this camera is designed to work with your tool chain no lock into any proprietary back end system use your tool of choice