Stereo 360 movies from stereo 360 panoramas
Lately I have been making stereo 360 panoramas using this twin Gopro rig (and another rig with a closer interaxial).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFSeAdb9Kvs
The quality of the latest full circle fisheye M12 lenses and the good sync of the Dual Hero System and Gopro3+ Black Protune image quality and EV control at 2.7K means stereo panoramas up to 5000 by 2500 each can be captured in as little as 5 seconds. The large number of frames from video capture means slice stitching modified by manual masking stitching (PTGui's green -- "keep this" -- masking brush) can produce a seamless 360 stitch, even with quite busy scenes.
So this is a good thing in itself, but the fact that a 3d video rig is being used for the 3d panorama capture by rapid rotation means that the same rig can be used, at the top of the same pole, except not rotating, stationary, just having to be turned manually to face generally the area being videoed before the shot commences. And then afterwards, in post processing, all the frames, panorama capture frames and video insert frames are calibrated together.
Once the video frames are stabilized and aligned with the panorama frames they can be masked (to the small area of interest) and inserted seamlessly (if all has gone well) into the stereo panorama.
Here is an anaglyph version of such a composite -- https://littlstar.com/videos/3136fb91
or you can download a stereo 360 equirectangular Bottom/Top format movie for LiveViewRift etc for the Rift
http://www.dropbox.com/s/jwymmgfas3eq19r/qvbequi360BT.mp4 (17Mb).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFSeAdb9Kvs
The quality of the latest full circle fisheye M12 lenses and the good sync of the Dual Hero System and Gopro3+ Black Protune image quality and EV control at 2.7K means stereo panoramas up to 5000 by 2500 each can be captured in as little as 5 seconds. The large number of frames from video capture means slice stitching modified by manual masking stitching (PTGui's green -- "keep this" -- masking brush) can produce a seamless 360 stitch, even with quite busy scenes.
So this is a good thing in itself, but the fact that a 3d video rig is being used for the 3d panorama capture by rapid rotation means that the same rig can be used, at the top of the same pole, except not rotating, stationary, just having to be turned manually to face generally the area being videoed before the shot commences. And then afterwards, in post processing, all the frames, panorama capture frames and video insert frames are calibrated together.
Once the video frames are stabilized and aligned with the panorama frames they can be masked (to the small area of interest) and inserted seamlessly (if all has gone well) into the stereo panorama.
Here is an anaglyph version of such a composite -- https://littlstar.com/videos/3136fb91
or you can download a stereo 360 equirectangular Bottom/Top format movie for LiveViewRift etc for the Rift
http://www.dropbox.com/s/jwymmgfas3eq19r/qvbequi360BT.mp4 (17Mb).