We are just catching up on CES after taking some time away to travel. The big consumer electronics show used to be a big deal when the PowerShot line-up was selling in the millions, we'd usually see a new G camera and a slew of other compact goodies.
Apple's Vision Pro isn't even available yet (in fact, no one has even seen a single Apple employee wearing one) but Qualcomm is already prepared to power a competitor with the announcement of the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. [Read More]
A new virtual reality (VR) app lets a user rewatch and relive memories they recorded on a smartphone.
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MELVILLE, N. Y. , January 4, 2023 – Canon U. S. A. , Inc. , a leader in digital imaging solutions, will launch free early access1 to the Kokomo software in February 2023, showcasing Canon’s first application for a virtual reality (VR) platform2 that enables face-to-face communication in a virtual space with live-action video using easy-to-use equipment.
Meta Three is a new 360-degree camera that produces remarkable 12.5K resolution videos using four vertically oriented 6K sensors. [Read More]
Samsung has developed what it claims is the industry's highest performing Universal Flash Storage (UFS). Called UFS 4.0, it boasts speeds twice as fast as the previous generation with read speeds of up to 4,200MB/s and write speeds of up to 2,800MB/s. [Read More]
Introducing The Kokomo Software By Canon, A First-Of-Its-Kind VR Platform Software for the Company, Currently Being Developed by Canon1 Press Release: – Canon U.S.A., Inc., Read more... The post Canon announces VR platform software ‘Kokomo’ appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
During a second-quarter earnings call, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that video has grown in importance for the social media platform and now accounts for almost half of all time on Facebook.
The Ernst Leitz Museum in Leitz Park, Wetzlar is a modern museum dedicated to photography that, in October, will open a facility where visitors will be able to enjoy what it calls an interactive photography experience.
T-Mobile has announced that it will equip players at Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2021 Home Run Derby in Denver with point-of-view (POV) cameras on their helmets and allow viewers to witness the game as if they were on the field.
The brand new DJI FPV gave me all the fun that playing with toys did as a child. But instead, it's a serious device for creating. Drone photography is seriously one of the most fun and enjoyable things you can do.
Australian indie game developer Matt Newell has released a new free Steam game called Castle Rock Beach, West Australia. It allows you to freely explore a realistic recreation of Australia’s southwest coast with a camera.
It seems Lytro has a new formidable competitor in the area of light field cameras. Google revealed today that it has created a rotating arc of 16 GoPro cameras arranged vertically to experiment with light fields.
360-degree cameras are not something that has really penetrated the professional market yet on a grand scale, but as far as the consumer end of photography these cameras are becoming quite the party trick.
Canon has built its own Oculus Rift app, giving users a virtual environment where they can go out and improve their composition skills while they try out some of the gear they’ve been lusting over.
Google’s Android Experiments platform is all about wacky ideas, and the company’s own experimental app Sprayscape is nothing if not wacky. Using your smartphone’s camera and gyroscope, the app lets you paint ‘perfectly imperfect’ VR-ish 360° photos.
In 2015, light-field camera startup Lytro did a huge pivot, redirecting its focus from consumer light-field cameras (the original and the Illum) to its new light field virtual reality camera, the Immerge.
This morning, the Brooklyn Nets basketball team of the NBA posted a video compilation on Twitter of the "best from the Netaverse." The Nets tagged Canon USA in its post, leading PetaPixel to investigate, "What is the Netaverse and what's Canon's involvement?" [Read More]
Thanks to the power of high-resolution 360-degree cameras and 3D compositing technology, production companies can produce full commercials for new cars before any model ever makes it off the line. [Read More]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that his company is renaming itself as “Meta” as it aims at a future in virtual reality, a place he has repeatedly referred to as the metaverse. Zuckerberg is now the chairman and CEO of Meta, the new parent company of Facebook. As noted by the Associated Press, skeptics […]
A designer duo has created a first-of-its-kind lens that can record 360-degree spherical video content that doesn’t need to be stitched in post-processing and can be used with any conventional camera.
Insta360 has announced the EVO, a groundbreaking new camera that features a folding design and two cameras. Folded up, the camera can shoot 360° spherical imagery, capturing every angle at once. Unfolded, the camera can shoot 180° 3D content.
What if you could relive your photos and videos by stepping back into those locations in virtual reality? Facebook is about to make that possible. The company just showed off a mind-blowing new feature that creates 3D spaces from your 2D photos and videos.
If you want a more immersive experience from your Mavic Pro or Phantom 4, DJI’s got you covered. Almost a year after they first teased them, DJI has officially released the DJI Goggles: a pair of VR-like FPV goggles that let you control your drone camera with your head.
GoPro today announced a brand new product called the GoPro Fusion. It’s a spherical camera that can shoot 360-degree photos and videos… in 5. 2K resolution. The Fusion is the latest member of the GoPro family, joining the standard GoPro camera and the new Karma drone.
Sphere is a new lens that’s designed to turn any DSLR camera into a 360-degree camera. It captures a full 360-degree view horizontally and a 180-degree field of view vertically. Created by a startup called the Sphere Optics Company, which is also working on similar lenses for GoPro cameras and smartphones, the Sphere Pro lens […]
Kodak has released the third generation of its Pixpro SP360 action camera, and if you’ve been following Photokina news, it’ll look very familiar. That’s because it’s basically just a pared down version of Nikon’s KeyMission 360.
Apple's revolutionary Vision Pro AR/VR headset is slated to arrive early next year for $3,499, and developers have already been working on software for the device. [Read More]
Filmmaker Josh Gladstone has recently begun working with light field video, an incredible technology allows him to capture volumetric video with a single camera rig and produce viewable video content in virtual reality (VR) and on the Looking Glass volumetric displays. [Read More]
The Smithsonian's collection of historical artifacts is so large that only 1% of its 150 million piece collection is showcased at any given time. Mixed with age and fragility, the museum is quickly virtualizing its collection to be viewed online. [Read More]
Some of the biggest names in technology have banded together to form the Metaverse Standards Forum to create open and consistent standards for interoperability in an open metaverse. [Read More]
Scanning a photorealistic avatar for virtual reality (VR) once took more than 100 cameras to pull off, but now researchers at Meta have revealed it can be done with just an iPhone. [Read More]
Miniatur Wunderland, the world's largest model railway, has published an hour-long, 360-degree video that takes viewers on a soothing ride through multiple miniaturized recreations of iconic global locations. [Read More]
Autonomous drone maker Skyfish has announced an official technical integration with Sony's Alpha series mirrorless cameras which the company says will "deliver high-quality data capture and drone-enabled web based photogrammetry" [Read More]
Insta360 just launched the Insta360 Pro 2, a professional VR camera that packs six separate cameras and lenses in a sphere to shoot 8K-per-eye 3D 360-degree video. The 6 onboard cameras capture every angle of every scene at once, and the photos and videos can then be fused into two 8K 360 images — one […]
Back in mid-2015, as interest in virtual reality headsets was heating up, Nokia announced a $60,000 spherical virtual reality camera called the OZO. This week, Nokia announced that it will be halting development of the camera system and cutting 310 jobs in the process.
Virtual reality is an up and coming industry. Big jumps are being made, with many genres of photography and film getting on board. But VR has always been limited in its resolution, with the experience feeling a bit pixelated to the user.