Facebook announces its 360-degree camera

Doug Carpenter
01:16, Apr 13, 2016
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Facebook's flying saucer design has 14 wide-angle camera's bolted to it (I'm seeing my personal issues with construction again), with a fish-eye camera on top and two more on the underside of the saucer. At its F8 developer conference on Tuesday Facebook plans to unveil part of its plan to do just that: A new camera specifically for filming 360-degree videos, the kind of video that lets you pan or rotate within a scene so you can get a full 360-degree perspective. Resembling a UFA, the surround 360 is a reference design for high-end video capture system with 17-lens 3D VR camera.

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Facebook will not be selling this rig; instead the social network plans to release the designs on GitHub this summer. Finally, you need to fuse or stitch all the images from each camera into one seamless video, and you have to do it twice: "once from the virtual position for the left eye, and once for the right eye". "In most cases, the cameras in these systems would overheat, the rigs weren't sturdy enough to mount to production gear, and the stitching would take a prohibitively long time because it had to be done by hand", Facebook says. However, attempt to build one only if you have somewhere around $30,000 stashed somewhere. The Facebook Surround 360 camera, he said, solves these issues. This means of course creating an entire platform for the development of virtual reality and 360 video. With it, Facebook has what's refereed to as an end-to-end solution for 360 video.

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Facebook wants to help you build a really expensive camera. Either way, someone will build it and with that Facebook's efforts to get more content will move on down that road that can be viewed in 360 degrees owing to this bit of engineering and willingness to share.

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