Jump – Experiences like you're actually there
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#2Almost impossible to read that font on my machine.
edit: I'm on Linux/Firefox. I assume it has to do with what font sets I have installed.
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#3Did anyone see this coming? Quite a successful secret by Google.
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#4Next up: Street View 3D?
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#5How does it do stereoscopy?
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#6The interesting aspect here is the iPhone availability for Cardboard and the use of Youtube as the platform for 3D VR.
Youtube already had stereoscopic support, but there were not many clients available, content was limited and difficult to create with 3rd party solutions that all cost money. It never took off and couldn't ride the wave of the studio and CE company driven 3D momentum, which quieted down after a while anyway.
This time Google ticks all the right boxes. Client devices on iOs and Android. The videoplayer everyone uses. A $5 cardboard enabler. A capture platform with GoPro and free assembly software.
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#716 GoPros? Sounds expensive. Certainly not something I would buy, since it would gather dust on the shelves along with my other gadgets after a few initial uses.
That being said, this may be the right time to reinvest in 360 degree stereoscopic video since the viewing technology is finally catching up. Point Grey has been making similar spherical cameras since the 90's [1]
Pretty cool idea overall. Other questions I had: Does it have a single data interface? How do you charge this behemoth.
[1] http://www.ptgrey.com/360-degree-spherical-camera-systems
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#8How does it do stereoscopy?
Probably with some simple optical flow view morphing. There's enough data from all the cameras to enable creating a stereo image.
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#9Has anyone though through doing this with binocular vision in all directions? just thinking about the geometry, I can't thing of a way to do it without a truly egregious amount of sensors.
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#10Almost impossible to read that font on my machine. edit: I'm on Linux/Firefox. I assume it has to do with what font sets I have installed.
Yeah, not sure why it has font weight of 100.