Really Nice read! http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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Posted On: 06/04/2016 10:51:34 AM
Really Nice read!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/8k_vi...5051682947
A few weeks ago a friend gifted me a brand-new and as-yet-unreleased-except-in-Korea Samsung Gear 360 immersive camera. Samsung’s first entry into the field of immersive photography, the Gear 360 runs to roughly the same shape and density as a cricket ball. With its opposing cameras and a few cute buttons, Gear 360 looks more like a surveillance droid from The Empire Strikes Back than a video camera.
But it shoots video in 4k. And the difference between HD and UHD in immersive video is the difference between night and day. Things that look vague and indistinct in HD resolve into sharp and clear images in UHD. Watch the video from inside a VR headset like Samsung’s GearVR and you really do feel as though you’re inside the action.
As soon as I watched my first video shot on Gear 360 I knew immediately that the future of television I’d been writing about in this column over the last year had finally arrived. This is going to be the future for news reporting, for documentary, for sports broadcasting - and, occasional, even for drama. The feeling of ‘being there’, on the 50 yard-line, or center court, or even at the wicket - all of that will be a bog-standard part of the broadcasting experience within a few years. That much was immediately clear.
Not only can Gear 360 shoot 4K video, it can capture immersive photographs with a mind-blowing 8k resolution - 7776x3888 pixels! Those dimensions begin to match the visual density of a VR headset, so these images should look pretty much as good as the current generation of headsets would allow.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/8k_vi...5051682947
A few weeks ago a friend gifted me a brand-new and as-yet-unreleased-except-in-Korea Samsung Gear 360 immersive camera. Samsung’s first entry into the field of immersive photography, the Gear 360 runs to roughly the same shape and density as a cricket ball. With its opposing cameras and a few cute buttons, Gear 360 looks more like a surveillance droid from The Empire Strikes Back than a video camera.
But it shoots video in 4k. And the difference between HD and UHD in immersive video is the difference between night and day. Things that look vague and indistinct in HD resolve into sharp and clear images in UHD. Watch the video from inside a VR headset like Samsung’s GearVR and you really do feel as though you’re inside the action.
As soon as I watched my first video shot on Gear 360 I knew immediately that the future of television I’d been writing about in this column over the last year had finally arrived. This is going to be the future for news reporting, for documentary, for sports broadcasting - and, occasional, even for drama. The feeling of ‘being there’, on the 50 yard-line, or center court, or even at the wicket - all of that will be a bog-standard part of the broadcasting experience within a few years. That much was immediately clear.
Not only can Gear 360 shoot 4K video, it can capture immersive photographs with a mind-blowing 8k resolution - 7776x3888 pixels! Those dimensions begin to match the visual density of a VR headset, so these images should look pretty much as good as the current generation of headsets would allow.
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