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Make your own 360 degree VR videos with Google Jump

2015-05-28
Google's got a new twist on virtual reality and it's called job I'm Lexy Cellini's from seen it here at Google i/o 2015 let's take a look at the brand new technology now jump is a VR system based around 16 cameras they can be any camera you can buy off-the-shelf all this particular configuration here which is with 16 GoPros now what happened is when you arrange the GoPros in a configuration like this I do like a reverse bullet time bullet time with all the cameras facing in on you this is the reverse they're all facing outside to create a 360 degree view now they're all recording at the same time simultaneously also grabbing audio once the footage has been captured from all those 16 cameras you then import it into a piece of jump software this will do all the computational magic required to make it into a fully immersive VR experience and once that's done you can view it in Google cardboard the finished result is on YouTube and you can do it with both of your eyes in Google cardboard coming this summer also you can actually get the models to print from yourself - that's also arriving in summer but if you want to check out more on the jump system you can head over to our full Google i/o coverage on cnet.com
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