We are working from some time ago in the construction of a new spherical video camera. The target of this project is to create an inexpensive camera for spherical video recording. This device is under development, but it will be available soon. Some images of the latest prototype:
For video recording it’s neccessary a laptop with an expresscard slot and Windows XP SP2 (or above).
The camera does not require an aditional power supply, all the power is obtained from the laptop, so, this is a very autonomous configuration.
They exist removable UV filters in front of every lens, to assure the best image quality and protection.
They exist two modes of capturing, full and half resolution, with these features:
- Half resolution: 3000×1500 at max. 30FPS
- Full resolution: 6000×3000 at max. 10FPS
The data is stored in MJPEG format in the laptop. This requires really a great amount of hard disk space, but the video can be compressed after capturing with any high performance video codec. Or any video frame could be extracted as a single spherical panoramic image.
At this moment we are working in the capturing software. This is an screenshot of the work in progress:
More news soon…
This is going to be a huge success! Look forward to the first video examples. Purchase to follow
Cool! I want see examples of spherical video, too.
look forward to seeing this, we are playing with 360 video at the moment using a single shot mirror lens and also looking at this in 3d as well, we can see lots of use for this especially over here in spain with a view to tourism, keep us up to date please…. thanks
This is great news! Keep us posted.
BEST LUCK
i would love to buy 1 or more !
, although.. i wished i there was a way to make it myself because this is what i believe the main idea of Pano’ s.
anyway, KEEP US UPDATED
Please think about making it possible for single frame at specified intervals, this seem perfect for a diy streetview setup much like mapjack.com and make it possible for software to log gps coordinates, thank you. do you have an estimate of the price.
This looks very interesting. I have just recently uploaded some of my work online. Luckily my computer started working properly. After reading some edit windows registry help I was able to resolve my computer’s registry problem.
I can’t wait to have one of this I have to see how much I can do with it
I agree with MARLON DALEY, don’t forget to make it possible to take pictures, even (maybe) with more quality, so we could use it like a system to make traditional panos, or even better, something like Google Street View.
I am looking forward to this product we hope to exceed ladybug(ptrey.com). By the way, released time ?, and how much money?
more information
http://www.chinapano.com/article/25.htm
Do you have an example the see the quality? Also I am very interesting in the total price for such a configuration.
The pictures are looking OK by me. I’ll hope to get some further info soon.
Thanks!