Hi Lovemore,
I have no own experience with this camera, but I was on the Diverse
Conference, where Roy Pea from Stanford reported about this device and
his research with panoramic video over the last years. As one of your
colleagues was there too, I guess that she told you about the device?
I guess that the device is very interesting and I would like to have one
too. But you probably will have to keep some things in mind. If you use
the camera image as it is, it will probably look quite strange. I made a
quick google image search to give you an impression [1]. So you will
need video filters to scale the image in the right way. And because of
this technique HD will not give you so much detail as you might expect.
Nevertheless it is a great idea, and Roy Pea and his team developed some
tools [2] that can probably make this panoramic video very usefull,
especially if you want to record school teaching to help the teachers
improve their skills. They made a product of their analysis software
that they sell bundled with the camera [3]. The basic idea behind their
software is (as far as I understood it), that only some reviewers see
the panoramic video and they create their views on what's happening in
the room that they will annotate with comments. Their view is only a
small cutout of the large panoramic video that can be encoded to a video
with more common dimensions.
I guess it would be a nice idea to add some support for this camera to
Matterhorn too. We could for example introduce a new flavor
panoramic/source so that this video is treated different from the
regular videos.
Rüdiger
[1]
http://www.nanophotonics.kr/html_product/panoramic/big_V060524RawPanorama.jpg
[2] http://scil.stanford.edu/research/projects/diver.html
[3] http://www.teachscape.com/reflect/
Am 14.07.2011 14:46, schrieb Lovemore Nalube:
Hi guys
Kogeto have made a small 360 degree camera for use in a classroom and
its rather affordable at $1399! It's equipped with an HD camera
for recording finer details like the writing on the board. they
actually designed it with than in mind.
http://www.kogeto.com/lucy.php has the outline.
Youtube has a video of it being spoken of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkvYucwUHQ
Has anyone in the community used this or thought of utilizing its wide
angle coverage?
Lovemore
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University of Cape Town
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