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VR Cameras: I'm confused

James_HJames_H Posts: 1,046
in The Commons

Really interested to know what this is can do.  Linking to G8 suggests a 360 output. Is this going to be viewable via Oculus Rift or similar? Feedback from purchasers would be really helpful. The blurb doesn't seem very helpful.

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  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    A link would be helpful. I don't have a clue what you are talking about and a store search turns up nothing for VR Cameras.

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,070
    edited August 2021

    https://www.daz3d.com/vr-cameras-for-genesis-8-male-and-female

    I too am confused.

    One can just place a regular camera in the scene and set distortion to spherical. What does this product add? And what's the point of parenting it to a character?

    Post edited by Hylas on
  • riverman63riverman63 Posts: 58

    I guess it's for animation use, reading between the lines to make vr360 videos.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,779

     Damn, I got excited for a second thinking there was a new plugin to allow a DS scene to be viewed in VR. sad

    riverman63 said:

    I guess it's for animation use, reading between the lines to make vr360 videos.

    yeah, that is what I get out of the description also which doesn't help me at all. Would be cool though to see any videos anyone produces with this camera. Hopefully anyone that gets its it will post where their videos are hosted

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,040

    I’m still confused. When I first saw this I dismissed it as props for the characters to hold, not actual cameras. Can this be used to create HDRIs? How is this VR?

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,779

    Wonderland said:

    I’m still confused. When I first saw this I dismissed it as props for the characters to hold, not actual cameras. Can this be used to create HDRIs? How is this VR?

    I gather it is a 360 camera in DS to create a 360 video to view in VR

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,070

    But regular cameras in base DAZ can already produce 360 images?

     

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    edited August 2021

    Hylas said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/vr-cameras-for-genesis-8-male-and-female

    I too am confused.

    One can just place a regular camera in the scene and set distortion to spherical. What does this product add? And what's the point of parenting it to a character?

     

    So much for the new, improved store search ... it didn't find this product no matter what I tried. 

     

    Looks like it is a first person view camera set up to function as a VR view. The props are worn by that character when viewed by a third person. Not sure that there's any new technology here at all, however.

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  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    I'm fairly sure it's just for people who don't know how to set up a 360 image on their own. 

  • yonderworksyonderworks Posts: 5

    Yeah this item seems pretty cool. Consumer VR cameras usually have two opposite facing cameras that stitch the images together to create the 360 image. 

    I'm assuming if you take the recordings from each camera with this setup you can stitch together your own 360 video with the proper software (after effects, hitfilm, etc.) 

    Pretty exciting actually. Never thought to use it in this way.

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