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Technology for Capturing 360 Degree Video

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the even-guesswork-can't-save-most-hollywood-pictures dept.

Inzite writes "EnterNetica R&D is working on a new spherical video technology for capturing and presenting full 360 degree scenes using a 180 degree lens, by adaptively predicting the camera's surroundings. Video extrapolation techniques have been proposed in the past, but this is the first time I've heard of an entire hemisphere of the video image being "guessed". The article also talks about feature film presentation using fully-immersive video in the future."

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  1. Woa! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This way we can be INSIDE of a pr0n movie!

    1. Re:Woa! by WormholeFiend · · Score: 5, Funny

      This way we can be INSIDE of a pr0n movie!

      No frickin way!

      Assuming that the slashdotted article also describes a 360 degree viewing screen, you'd be looking at the porn in front of you, getting all aroused, and then you'd look behind you and see the filming crew with the dodgy looking pron director and his clapper.

      This would totally ruin the experience, IMO.

    2. Re:Woa! by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 3, Funny

      with the dodgy looking pron director and his clapper. So that's what you kids are calling it today.

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  2. Great, now all we need is... by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a 360 Degree TV to watch it!

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    1. Re:Great, now all we need is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Cool! I'll finally have something to plug my new XBox into.

    2. Re:Great, now all we need is... by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

      There goes the illusion that my pizza delivery job makes me irresistable to women.

      Well duh! You need to get into the plumbing business...

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  3. Hidden messages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whilst the camera is looking the other way, someone could easily show in a message saying:

    FIRST POST

    but nobody would notice.

  4. first application... by ltwally · · Score: 2, Funny

    something tells me that something like this could usher in a new era of pr0n. 3d goggles and a vibrating chair, oh my!

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  5. Re:Why not two cameras? by Surt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well duh, they can't put two cameras back to back and take a 360 degree photo, that would be against the laws of physics. And man you do not want to be pulled over by god for a physics violation, that is a bad scene.

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  6. I have this technology already by mister_llah · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just spin in circles really fast while holding the camera out.

    I suppose there is the drawback of dizziness and eventually falling down.

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  7. Re:Why not two cameras? by op12 · · Score: 3, Funny

    He let me off with a warning.

  8. How would Red Green solve this? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or you could, like, duct tape a bunch of cheaper camers into, like, a ball.

  9. Re:Cinemoments by Datamonstar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but us black guys would always end up dying somehow mid-ways through the picture.

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  10. Re:Already Slashdotted. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you had the 360 degree camera you could use that instead...

  11. Re:Why not two cameras? by fbjon · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you run really fast you'll disappear in the compression artefacts.

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