First Lok At The Yi 360 Vr Together With Yi Halo

First Lok At The Yi 360 Vr Together With Yi Halo

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PhotoGearNews' Lok Cheung takes a await at the Yi 360 VR as well as the Yi Halo.

Lok Cheung is good known to photographers equally the old colleague of Kai Wong at DigitalRev (before they both left).  At DigitalRev, Lok was the 1 who was most interested inward 360 cameras.  Anyway, he's straightaway at PhotoGearNews.

In this video from NAB Show 2017, Lok covers the Yi 360 VR amongst 5.7K as well as the Yi Halo 2nd-generation 8K 3D 360 Google Jump rig:


In example yous missed it, I likewise induce got a video from NAB virtually the Yi 360 VR.


Too bad I didn't piece of occupation into Lok when I was at NAB.  Kai posted a comment on my old spider web log 1 time. It would induce got been overnice to tell hello.  Perhaps adjacent time!

Google Invites You Lot To Capture The Footing Every Minute You Lot Run Into It Amongst Vr180; Novel Cameras Announced From Partners

Google Invites You Lot To Capture The Footing Every Minute You Lot Run Into It Amongst Vr180; Novel Cameras Announced From Partners

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At Vidcon 2017, Google announced VR180 videos together with cameras, which are 180-degree 3D videos together with cameras that tin laissez passer on the axe capture the the world from your indicate of view.
VR180 videos are 180-degree 3D videos, similar to 3D 360 videos simply exclusively showing a forward-facing view.  While that may seem similar significantly smaller stance than 3D 360 videos, heatmaps present that almost viewers stance videos exclusively looking at the forrad view.

Here is a playlist of sample VR180 videos (to run across them inwards 3D, you'll postulate to stance them amongst a Google Cardboard or similar viewer):


WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE FROM STANDARD 360 VIDEOS?
VR180 appears to endure a split format from the measure equirectangular 360 videos.  If yous lookout the video inwards a higher house without cardboard, yous cannot await around the video the means yous tin laissez passer on the axe amongst a hemispherical 360 video (such equally from Entapano).  Instead, the perspective is fixed until yous click on the cardboard icon, which enables gyro viewing.  I am supposing it uses a especial tag inwards its 360 metadata together with therefore that on Youtube, the non-360 stance has a fixed perspective.

VR180 CAMERAS
Google has partnered amongst Yi Technology, Lenovo, together with LG to exercise the VR180 cameras, which are designed to endure easily portable together with user-friendly.  The cameras are going to endure released this winter.  You tin laissez passer on the axe sign upwards to endure notified of Yi's VR180 photographic idiot box camera here.

Here is the official Google announcement.  What exercise yous intend of VR180?  Will 3D in conclusion larn mainstream?  Does it deal or hinder involvement inwards 360 photos together with videos?  Let me know what yous intend inwards the comments!