My Gopro 3+ Black 180 degree stereo rig

I think the videos should be shot in 4k each, even if you re getting only 10 or 12fps

Gopro 4 should be better surely -- maybe they will have 4k at 30fps.

2.7K on the current Black3+ is the best setting but it only goes to 30fps.

Lately I have been processing the Gopro mp4s directly in Photoshop (using some Photoshop only filters like Viveza) to try to get more detail. This Youtube video is Viveza (Detail maximum) filter plus some Virtualdub temporal smoother at 2.7K (use the highest res setting): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv9YBCg9JFs

Using two cameras to get that 180° of uninterrupted stereoscopic view is definitely the thing to do. But it bothers me having an edge. I want to add a third camera pointing back to fill in the sphere in 2D.

Has anyone tried these fish eye adaptors instead of changing the lenses in the gopros ? http://www.dx.com/p/highpro-0-38x-super-wide-angle-fish-eye-lens-for-gopro-hero3-hero3-black-273159#.VBmqhEi1_Po

Use LiveViewRift equidistant (equid) mode ...
or Whirligig Dome mode -- with this you need to set Tilt = 90

LiveViewRift has a lot of features specifically targeted at circular fisheye -- including cropping circles with feathering -- which give a very professional look

I wrote a short tutorial on using fisheye videos in LiveViewRift here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2f4nd4/liveviewrift_minitutorial_with_sample_1803d/

"mediavr" wrote:
Here is a 180 equirectangular stereo movie done with a twin Gopro 3+ Black rig
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gslyccr43c8whwy/eveleighmarkets.mp4

Hi media, unfortunately i cant see your video no more, coz seems deleted, by the way, i have 2 videos( left and right) done with 2 gopro 3 black + rig but i can't understand how to join them in just one steroscopic 3d video suitable for my oculus. Can you help me?

I made a little video showing some concepts in 360 video stabilization --

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2ipi89/stabilizing_360_videos_some_softwarehardware/

Here is another stabilisation test video (2D) - this is 180 fisheye (Alaudoptical) lens on Gopro 3+ Black at 2.7K @25 fps
(playing on Youtube at 30fps)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_0QczCRMHQ

this is with the Feiyutech 3 axis gimbal stabiliser

It is converted to equirectangular with PTGui.

[esoteric stitching topic]
Converting fisheye videos to equirectangular videos is not so easy for long videos. You need convert the video to jpg sequences and then do the conversion in PTGui -- to do it most accurately. And PTGui will do 1000 frames very quickly, but it will die if you want it to do say 7000 frames. That is if you load all the frames in at the same time. So what you gotta do is ... just add one frame to PTGui and set it to convert to equirectangular, like you were just going to convert one frame .. and then launch Batch Builder, tell it to create a project for each image in the video jpg folder, and use the current active project as the template. And then it will make 7000 projects each with one image in it .. and it will spit them out without crashing./[esoteric stitching topic]

It was at a busy crossing with the camera at about 2.5m with the Feiyutech on a small pole. With 3 axis stabilisation in yaw locked mode, like here, the camera points at a predetermined direction for the entire shot. But you have unstabilised translations in space, up and down particularly, from our wavy paths through space

http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/courses/S06/IEOR-QE-S06/ejm_chronophotograph01.jpg

It is very hard to stop this up/down stepping camera motion being conspicuous if the camera is at the normal distance to the ground. If it is held higher it is ok. But it is the main thing stopping totally "floating" panoramic video camera moves -- ie. moves not liable to give the vr viewer vertigo. A stabiliser vest with swing arm would do it -- in combination with a 3d axis gimbal .

Protune settings -- for circular fisheye you have to set EV=-1 or -0.5 because the black around the image circle will bias the exposure to overexposure otherwise.

Workflow elements -- I use 3d Lut Maker to make Luts to enhance particular colors. I apply it as a filter in After Effects

Often lately I process the videos in Photoshop mainly (in video mode), using the Photoshop specific Viveza filter for its local and global "structure" filter

2.7K is an optimal resolution setting (no internal rescaling)
http://abekislevitz.com/understanding-your-new-gopro/

I really wonder what those folks from oculusrealporn.com use.these videos are awesome in rift..
So to have 3d videos in synch go pro black 3+ are needed + some fish eye lenses to have 180 covarage?
what about 2x iON Air Pro HD..these cameras can shoot full HD at 60fps and their shape allows to put them really close to each other. + they have 160 degree lens already build in. any thought?

"panmaster" wrote:
I really wonder what those folks from oculusrealporn.com use.these videos are awesome in rift..
So to have 3d videos in synch go pro black 3+ are needed + some fish eye lenses to have 180 covarage?
what about 2x iON Air Pro HD..these cameras can shoot full HD at 60fps and their shape allows to put them really close to each other. + they have 160 degree lens already build in. any thought?

You need the Dual Hero System to get good sync. You need 180 lenses if you want to have a "lookaround" experience.

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2jnuor/hardware_sync_when_is_it_essential_for_stereo_180/

here is a post with a 3d/180 video about the Dual Hero System -- who knows if it actually does work with the Hero4 Black?

this is with my dual Gopro gimbal stabilizer (2 axis) with 90mm interaxial

this outing -- a ethnic festival, had a couple of lessons for me -- that 90mm interaxial is not too much sometimes even with very close subjects in the Rift -- and second, that After Effects alone is good enough for a complete, and pretty fast, workflow if you are not too critical. I enhanced the stabilization of the gimbal stabilizer by having it on a short pole which provides a counterweight effect -- which helps reduce up and down movements and yaw. A couple of clips look shaky in the Youtube version because I used Warp Stabilizer on those as well, so the circumference of the image circles for those are moving, but the image content of the circle is actually more stable.