Looking for passionate developers, programmers, and engineers for a virtual reality camera system.
What do you think will be the next evolutionary stage for a VR camera system? Do you think Project Beyond will do any damage? What about Jaunt?
They have nothing compared to what we are building.
We want to break through the boundary of a stable VR camera, and create the first truly immersive live action experience.
Right now the biggest problem with live-VR environments is the camera system has to be stable. You aren’t able to move through a scene, unless the camera moves through the scene. We are going to develop the technologies that will enable a camera system to capture a live-VR environment and be fully immersive at the same time.
We will be experimenting with: computational photography, diffractive optics, laser optics, machine vision, stereoscopic 3D, cloud computing, parallel processing, deep learning, machine learning, intrinsic image processing, 3D mapping, and 3D tracking.
The best system I've seen anywhere is that used by airpano.com The quality they achieve is remarkable. I've emailed them myself to find out what kit they use. The only other kit I've seen is here:http://www.360heros.com/ but quite frankly, its rubbish compared to the Russian guys, who appear to be funded by Putin himself.
I've been trying to get some feedback about shooting systems as I'm a documentary film maker and would like to shoot a doc specifically aimed at OR users.
However, its tough getting feedback as so few people seem to be doing it.
I'm really happy to be involved in any project you may have. I have 30 years experience as a broadcast TV director and have a complete Avid editing suite (though that's unlikely to be that useful). I'm based in the UK
I am having a great time so far with the Playstation Eye Camera. It has some crazy fps, and is easily modifiable to work for IR, that is what mine does and I am getting about 3ms average overall latency, I am using TUIO(http://www.tuio.org/), specifically CCV(http://ccv.nuigroup.com/#home). These cameras are about $10 each, and there are driver with active support for multiple cameras, which is part of what I am working on. I am trying very hard to setup a simple open source tracking setup based on the "C#: TUIO11_NET" SDK package on their site. There is several flavors if you don't like C#. I would love to hear more about what you are doing as far as tracking goes. I had though about ordering a IR camera that is designed for Arduino but went with this setup as there is documentation and libs with history. I am trying to track a mock assault rifle with an IR Pin-Pong Ball, and I have to say they really glow very nicely with IR!
I'm also a filmmaker based in UK. I'm interested in the camera you are developing - have you got any funding in place? Sounds as though you are mostly interested in live streaming to a VR headset? I am more interested in creating cinematic experiences. Is there anything currently out there that would work for me? What is your opinion of Jaunt. It looked good to me. Very happy to socialise with anyone UK based - Just PM me. Also, I travel to Moscow a lot if you wanted me to pay a visit to the Russian guys and check out their system.
