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[QUOTE=testi][B]Nokia has just revealed a new camera for filmmakers called OZO that can capture virtual reality videos[/B]. But unlike similar devices from GoPro and Samsung unveiled in the past months, it’s not a flattened circle with cameras but a spherical ball-like device with shutters all over it. [B]It has eight shutter sensors in all to capture 360-degree videos and eight integrated microphones.[/B] What users might find advantageous is its capability to show them what it’s shooting in real time through a VR headset. It can also churn out a low-resolution version of the footage it shot within just a few minutes if filmmakers want to see it again or to show it to someone else. Videos captured through similar cameras usually have to be stitched together during processing before you can see them, and that takes a lot of time.
When Microsoft bought Nokia’s handset business in 2013, two big questions hovered above all. The first was “why,” and we never got a convincing answer: [B]Microsoft wrote off $7.6 billion in Nokia costs this month, higher than the purchase price.[/B] The second question was what would become of the rest of Nokia, which had just exited the business it had once dominated. The company said it planned to focus on maps, network infrastructure, and “advanced technologies” — but what those technologies would be went unsaid[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://wowefekt.com/tech/nokia-ozo-vr-camera/[/URL]
Video in sauce. Nokia is also releasing it's Q2 info tomorrow. Looks like Nokia made a pretty wise decision by selling it's mobile development; Now it has an opportunity to take a fresh start. Apparently they're also working on wearable tech.
[Quote]can capture virtual reality videos[/quote]
That's not what these words mean
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48320997]That's not what these words mean[/QUOTE]
Well...
The videos of the environment can be incorporated in a virtual reality of that same environment.
The word soup seems to make sense to me.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;48321003]Well...
The videos of the environment can be incorporated in a virtual reality of that same environment.
The word soup seems to make sense to me.[/QUOTE]
it's panoramic video camera, totally different from VR
[QUOTE=Bradyns;48321003]Well...
The videos of the environment can be incorporated in a virtual reality of that same environment.
The word soup seems to make sense to me.[/QUOTE]
Like any video shot with normal camera can?
It takes a special kind of software in conjunction with 360 camera coverage to make those 3D videos that you get you Youtube.. that's the kind of "virtual reality video" they are talking about.
the thing is will there be dev support to use it for slam?
People wrongly interchange the term VR for the term Head Mounted Display. You can indeed very efficiently can use a HMD while watching omni directional video recording or stream (it's often done with RC aircraft) for instance, but that doesn't make it a virtual reality, just another way of perceiving the actual reality. Oculus Rift, Vive, all these are HMDs and their primary purpose seems to be in conjunction with virtual reality but so was most of all normal CRT and LCD monitors ever built.
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[QUOTE=Bradyns;48321055]It takes a special kind of software in conjunction with 360 camera coverage to make those 3D videos that you get you Youtube.. that's the kind of "virtual reality video" they are talking about.[/QUOTE]
But panoramic videos have been done years ago and they aren't virtual reality. They are just literately broader picture of actual reality with illusion of some degree of interactivity.
They are releasing another video & more info after a week.
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