It’s been an exciting decade for video and still-photography cameras, but if we were to sum 2017 up as anything, it would be the year that virtual reality (VR) cameras became accessible to a much broader “prosumer” and consumer market.
Chinese company YI has introduced a new consumer camera called the YI 360 VR. This model features a pair of cameras with 220-degree f/2.0 aspheric glass lenses, one on the front and another on the back, that simultaneously record footage.
Known for their prosumer 360 camera, Humaneyes has unveiled the next generation of their Vuze VR 360 camera, the Vuze+.
Something to remember when shooting spherical video is that everything is visible in the shot. Even if you think you are being clever by hiding behind a boulder or a tree, you might not be as well hidden as you think.
For the first time since being introduced to the market, over one million (yes, that’s 1,000,000+) VR headsets flew off the shelves in a single fiscal quarter.
VR headsets have been available for over a year now, and more content is constantly being developed for them. We should expect that rate to increase as new headset models are being released from established technology companies, prompted in part by the new VR features expected in Microsoft’s next update to Windows 10. As the potential customer base increases, the software continues to mature, and the content offerings broaden. And with the advances in graphics processing technology, we are finally getting to a point where it is feasible to edit videos in VR, on a laptop.
As the battle for the immersive computing market continues to rage between the major technology giants, it is clear that this will not be a winner take all market; however, there are some platforms that are much better positioned to capture the lion share of the growing opportunity.
The 360 Round has 17 2-megapixel cameras and six microphones (and two mic ports), which work together to create 3D VR video. Samsung says that it’s powerful enough to live stream 4K VR at 30 fps.
It might only be Halloween, but Christmas has come early for Premiere, After Effects, and other Adobe Creative Cloud video apps users.
At IBC, Adobe announced its next round of integrated workflows and performance enhancements. This morning at Adobe MAX, a creativity conference in Las Vegas, those updates were released into the wild.
Designed to provide VR specialists with a durable and manageable solution for capturing, viewing and editing VR content