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Quest can do that stuff in it's browser. But I was never impressed with "VR" video and photography, it comes with most of the problems of Stereo 3D like fixed

Quest can do that stuff in it's browser. But I was never impressed with "VR" video and photography, it comes with most of the problems of Stereo 3D like fixed IPD and fixed perspective but adds more like stereo breaking whenever the viewer tilts their head.

modeless 3y ago
Yeah I never saw much point in stereo content created by others due to the limitations you mention, and I wouldn't spend money on dedicated stereo capture devices. But Cardboard Camera costs $0, and it's a cool feeling to stand inside one of your own captures of a place you haven't been in a long time, or a place that doesn't exist anymore. Someday soon we'll be capturing and viewing gaussian splat scenes and videos and that will be the point where 3D captured content really becomes compelling for VR (outside the adult niche).
noduerme 3y ago
I've never been too impressed by it either. On the other hand, a friend of mine got one of these live transmitting 360 degree camera devices that streams to your phone and lets you move your phone around to pan on the live feed... took it to Vegas with us and handed it up to dancers on stage in a club who handed it around while they were dancing above a crowd, and the results were ridiculously good. He's looking forward to spending his later years reliving highlights of his life in VR via these videos. Would be nice if they were stereo, I guess, but the 360 aspect is much more important.
- traverseda 3y ago
  I've never heard of those, what model was he using?
  - noduerme 3y ago
    It's called an Insta360. Lots of fun. Using it... you stop thinking of it as a directional camera, and start thinking of it as a point in space. While it's streaming to your phone, you stand there and hold your phone in front of you and whichever way you turn the phone's inertial direction tracking syncs your screen to that part of the panorama. If that makes sense. As if you were just taking a photo of what's around you, except you're looking at what's around the 360 camera. And then while it's live, or later when you play it back, you can use your phone's tracking and zooming to shoot "normal" flat 2D videos inside of whatever it captured, sort of like you're there and you can shoot the scene all over again. The editing capability to me was kind of the killer feature... you don't need to worry about framing subjects. Six of us put it in the middle of the table during dinner, and later on cut a video that pans or jumps to whoever was talking. It's also really low-key, because people don't know what it is, and it doesn't look like you're pointing a camera at them. Even though it's capturing everything around it. We were able to go all over a casino with it and no one on staff noticed.

modeless 3y ago

Yeah I never saw much point in stereo content created by others due to the limitations you mention, and I wouldn't spend money on dedicated stereo capture devices. But Cardboard Camera costs $0, and it's a cool feeling to stand inside one of your own captures of a place you haven't been in a long time, or a place that doesn't exist anymore. Someday soon we'll be capturing and viewing gaussian splat scenes and videos and that will be the point where 3D captured content really becomes compelling for VR (outside the adult niche).

noduerme 3y ago

I've never been too impressed by it either. On the other hand, a friend of mine got one of these live transmitting 360 degree camera devices that streams to your phone and lets you move your phone around to pan on the live feed... took it to Vegas with us and handed it up to dancers on stage in a club who handed it around while they were dancing above a crowd, and the results were ridiculously good. He's looking forward to spending his later years reliving highlights of his life in VR via these videos. Would be nice if they were stereo, I guess, but the 360 aspect is much more important.

traverseda 3y ago
I've never heard of those, what model was he using?
- noduerme 3y ago
  It's called an Insta360. Lots of fun. Using it... you stop thinking of it as a directional camera, and start thinking of it as a point in space. While it's streaming to your phone, you stand there and hold your phone in front of you and whichever way you turn the phone's inertial direction tracking syncs your screen to that part of the panorama. If that makes sense. As if you were just taking a photo of what's around you, except you're looking at what's around the 360 camera. And then while it's live, or later when you play it back, you can use your phone's tracking and zooming to shoot "normal" flat 2D videos inside of whatever it captured, sort of like you're there and you can shoot the scene all over again. The editing capability to me was kind of the killer feature... you don't need to worry about framing subjects. Six of us put it in the middle of the table during dinner, and later on cut a video that pans or jumps to whoever was talking. It's also really low-key, because people don't know what it is, and it doesn't look like you're pointing a camera at them. Even though it's capturing everything around it. We were able to go all over a casino with it and no one on staff noticed.