Making video

see this:
http://thefulldomeblog.com/2014/03/06/3 ... damentals/

To do stereo 360 you need to stitch two sets of panoramas, one from the left eye camera and one from the right.

Basically half of your cameras will be used for each stitch, which means you need twice as many cameras. Each set of cameras should have about 2.5 inches between the left and right lens.

IMO stereo 360 videos where the camera moves are not practical, as the required distance between the lenses for stereo to work creates a ton of parallax error stitching problems, which are only exasperated by displaying them in 3D.

The best way to avoid stitching issues is to keep your cameras close together and your subjects away from the camera, both of which are counter to creating a decent 3d effect.

You can create a very effective 3D stereo video if you limit yourself to a static camera and don't allow your subjects to cross between camera sets. This way you can hand paint out the stitching errors on the static 3D panorama while still having moving 3d video in front, behind, to the left and right (but never crossing ). The cirque du soleil video the gear comes with demonstrates this technique perfectly--there are actors in front and to the left and right, but they never cross between those spaces. The intro and strangers videos use the same trick.

Finally there are plugins for 3D rendering software like Max and Maya, like domemaster, that let you render 3D stereo panoramas with no stitching errors, but then you need to model, texture, light and animate everything. There are a few of these that come with the Gear as well.

What I haven't seen done yet is a seamless moving camera 360 video that isn't prerendered in a computer.

Hey how do you view the stereoscopic video file through the Oculus once you have it? I rendered out in 3d and now when I look through the visor I just see the 3d image... not the image IN 3d.


Any Idea what I'm doing wrong?

"mediavr" wrote:
see this:
http://thefulldomeblog.com/2014/03/06/3 ... damentals/

MediaVR, thank you!!

I 've been using the 360Fly to produce 360 video for virtual reality. It's a pretty good product and works well. There's no learning curve, just take it out of the box and start recording then upload to Youtube or Facebook.

I did a product review, check it out here: