From: Christian Greuel Subject: Re: TECH: "Reality" in VR Date: 9 Oct 1995 19:40:55 GMT Message-ID: <45bts7$kcl@shellx.best.com> Organization: Fakespace, Inc. >>Also, can VR glasses be used to play back a 360 degree video? >>I.e., can you use the head-tracking capabilities to view a video >>shot in 360 degrees, in the same way as you could watch a normal >>video shot with a standard FOV on a 2D screen? > >That answer to this is yes. There's a company called Dodeca which >seamlessly joins the video streams from 6 cameras placed around a >dodecahedron to produce a hemispheric video that can be viewed in VR >glasses with headtracking. It's very impressive. The had a demo at >SIGGRAPH of a basketball game. When you put on the VR glasses you were >in the centre of the action but you could look in any direction and >have the view change accordingly. Pretty neat considering this was >video NOT computer graphics. Warp California (http://www.warp.com/) also demonstrated 360 degree video at Siggraph at the Virtual I/O booth. Oddly enough, they also placed the viewer in the middle of a basketball game. (Are you sure this is not the same demo?) The difference here is that Warp uses a single fisheye lens camera to shoot the original video. Cool stuff! __________________________________________________________ Christian Greuel 415-462-5830 vox greuel@xian.com Fakespace, Inc. 415-688-1949 fax http://www.xian.com/