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It's just a normal video, warped. Someone already made an iOS module that'll replicate what the app does: https://github.com/gizmosachin/Monocle https://github

• bflesch 9y ago
  Thank you for the pointer. It was very interesting to go through the repo.
• nakedrobot2 9y ago
  it's not warped. a camera lens is round, it makes a circular image. here that circle is smaller than the sensor. all they're doing is wasting 1/2 the sensor's pixels :)
  • adrianmonk 9y ago
    If they can get a square (rather than rectangular) sensor, and if my math is right, it's a lot less than half.. A circle has an area of pir^2. And it fits just inside a square whose sides are length 2r, and whose area is thus (2r)^2 or 4r^2. Therefore, the circle fills pi/4 of the square. So only 21.5% of the pixels are wasted. It gets worse if they use a rectangular sensor, though. With a 4:3 rectangular sensor, it's 41.1% wasted. For 3:2, it's 47.6%. And for 16:9, it's 55.8% wasted.
  • true_religion 9y ago
    The linked app is just a video player. It plays videos shot with the spectacles. It does not seem to record.