Friday, June 3, 2005
Telemmersion System - 360º Spherical Video Capture (VR)
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Unbelievable! I’m surprised I didn’t hear about this sooner, since it has been a month or so since Immersive Media (name says it all) demonstrated it at NAB. The Telemmersion System has to be one of the coolest gadgets around… and if I had $24k laying around, it would be in my gadget box! The Telemmersion System is a total package that includes the pictured camera head (contains eleven CCD 1/3” sensors in a modular dodecahedral array — that sounds really good!). The cameras field of view is 360° horizontal and 290° vertical (91.7% of sphere) and each camera can produce over 450 lines of resolution (this about the possibilities if a HD version ever comes out). All that data is transmitted from the camera to the base unit with regular gigabit Cat5e cable. Everything is captured in realtime and can be converted to any video format (Quicktime, Windows Media, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc), but the ultimate display method is via a Virtual-Reality (VR) Headset… talk about full immersion! No computer generated tom-foolery worlds here… we’re talking full motion video baby!
Anyways, to get the full gist of what I’m talking about, it’s best to point your browser over to the Immersive Media website and check out the Flash demo. Be sure to read all the specs too… the amount of data being processed is amazing.
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COMMENTS
Posted by Tintint at June 22, 2005 2:09 PM
Is blogging dead? I haven’t seen any updates here for awhile.
Posted by Danny Mavromatis at June 22, 2005 3:37 PM
No Reece, I’ve been busy working on new project… more to come…
Danny
Posted by jeepbastard at July 28, 2005 5:19 AM
You could make some cool multi-angle dvd projects with this. With 1/3” CCD’s , it’s not exactly broadcast quality, but it could be a good look for a reality TV show to run one of these in a small space such Big Brother or Surreal World.
Seems like a awesome survellince device, but certainly would be a stretch to match it to footage from larger CCD blocks cameras.
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