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The Full 360: Creating High-Quality Immersive Videos (OC4 Talk)

My talk about 360 video at Oculus Connect 4 is now online! It’s a high-level summary about the current state of 360 video including equipment and workflow, followed by a chat with Paul Raphaël and Ryan Horrigan of Félix & Paul Studios about the making of MIYUBI.

VR180 picture in picture experiments

I did some experiments yesterday about how one might do picture-in-picture in VR180 (stereoscopic 180).

Insta360 ONE bullet time in 3D (stereoscopic)

The monoscopic bullet time video created by the Insta360 ONE camera can easily be converted to a 3D video by showing it separately to each eye with a time offset (1 frame).

Bullet time photogrammetry, with Insta360 ONE and Pix4D

I twirled an Insta360 ONE camera above my head using its “Bullet Time” feature, and shoved the resulting images into Pix4D to create a 3D model.  Wanna play with it? The model wasn’t fantastic to begin with, and it looks even worse in Sketchfab:

360 camera comparison, September 2017

360 video comparison from 11 360 cameras in September, 2017

Mac-like screen captures in Windows: Snagit

To emulate Mac-like screen captures, you can use the $49.95 Windows utility called Snagit, by TechSmith. You can configure presets to be triggered by Alt+Shift+3 and Alt-Shift+4 to do the same things they do in OS X.

Insta360 ONE’s “Freecapture”: re-framing 360 videos as traditional videos

I posted a video of my son the other day, and I was able to both shoot and participate in the video. I shot the video using an Insta360 ONE 360 camera on a light stand and "re-shot" the video as traditional video using Insta360's "FreeCapture" feature in the iOS app.

Epic footage of 700 sharks feeding at night at Fakarava, French Polynesia

This half-hour documentary about the Gombessa IV expedition to Fakarava is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. It features what is likely the most exciting hunting-shark video ever captured, and also will give you a glimpse into the sort of dedication that is required to get it. I watched it by playing it on my iPhone and using AirPlay to mirror to ...

Tales by Light 2, now on Netflix

Season 2 of Tales by Light is now on Netflix! I'm featured in episodes 3 and 4. What an amazing production to have been a part of--I'm truly honored.