{"id":4392,"date":"2018-01-10T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2018-01-10T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:55:00","slug":"vr-3d-vr-180-stereoscopic-cameras-shown-at-ces2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2018\/01\/10\/vr-3d-vr-180-stereoscopic-cameras-shown-at-ces2018\/","title":{"rendered":"VR 3D, VR 180 stereoscopic cameras shown at #CES2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/360.video.professionals\/permalink\/2058490141047895\/\">Kodak Pixpro 180<\/a> &#8211; a VR 360 camera that unfolds, points both lenses in the same direction and turns into a VR 180 stereoscopic 3D camera!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrfocus.com\/2018\/01\/humaneyes-technologies-reveals-the-vuze-vr-camera-at-ces-2018\/\">Vuze+\u00a0 VR 360 3D camera<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2018\/01\/09\/google-vr180-cameras-lenovo-yi\/\">Stereoscopic VR 180 3D cameras, built on Google&#8217;s standard, introduced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiodaily.com\/2018\/01\/insta360-demos-eight-lens-vr-camera-light-field-technology-ces\/\">High End &#8211; 8 camera VR 360 3D system<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I assume there is also something new from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucidcam.com\/\">LucidCam<\/a> as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will do a post at some point on re-formatting conventional 3D video for use in VR Cardboard viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional 3D video typically used side-by-side or top over bottom encoding of 3D content.\u00a0 Top over bottom does not work at all for conventional VR viewing apps, and side-by-side displays a horizontally squished\/vertically stretched image perspective. Consequently, neither works with standard VR viewers. Side by side is also sometimes called &#8220;half side by side&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some apps do correctly recreate a side by side image but do so only in a small portion of the phone&#8217;s screen centered in front of the cardboard viewer&#8217;s lenses. Unfortunately, this small image cuts the image resolution so low that the image quality suffers tremendously and the original 3D content is nearly useless.<\/p>\n<p>IF Cardboard viewing apps provided reformatting of standard 3D formats into VR 3D formats properly, this would not be a problem. But for now, it is a big problem.<\/p>\n<p>A possible solution, based on my tests, is to take one&#8217;s original stereoscopic 3D and recompress an output file as full size, side by side. Upload the full size, side by side video to Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>When played back on the Youtube viewer, these videos display using most of the phone screen, such that image resolution remains very good. Each eye sees an original image in a 960&#215;540 resolution (roughly) which is far better than perhaps half of that seen on conventional side by side Cardboard viewing apps.<\/p>\n<p>More on this another time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodak Pixpro 180 &#8211; a VR 360 camera that unfolds, points both lenses in the same direction and turns into a VR 180 stereoscopic 3D camera! Vuze+\u00a0 VR 360 3D camera Stereoscopic VR 180 3D cameras, built on Google&#8217;s standard, introduced High End &#8211; 8 camera VR 360 3D system I assume there is also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2018\/01\/10\/vr-3d-vr-180-stereoscopic-cameras-shown-at-ces2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VR 3D, VR 180 stereoscopic cameras shown at #CES2018<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-videos","category-virtual-reality-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}