[Sursound] NAB2014 Sighting; 360 degree camera arrangement very like a Soundfield microphone
While at NAB2014 in Las Vegas earlier this week I stumbled upon a small company (http://www.video-stitch.com/) with a 360 degree video product offering. Their product was actually software running on a computer that stitches together the streams from four video cameras. The resulting stream is fed into an Oculus Rift VR headset. You can look around the scene in a very natural way, the systems rendering the stream that most correctly reflect your current perspective. The camera arrangement very closely resembled the tetrahedral array of microphones common to Soundfield mics. I took a pic with my phone. http://www.mgraves.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-07-11.31.15.jpg The company had no knowledge of Ambisonics, but said that processing audio corresponding to the spherical video was on their wish list. I gave them a brief introduction and showed them a picture of a Core Sound Tetra mic to get them started down the path. They seemed to be quite enthusiastic about it. Michael -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140410/264339df/attachment.html ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
Re: [Sursound] NAB2014 Sighting; 360 degree camera arrangement very like a Soundfield microphone
I recall this camera cluster being used for the Lincoln Sound and Vision production with that odd four faced binaural dummy head. http://now.lincoln.com/2013/02/an-entirely-new-sound-and-vision-2/ On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:39 AM, mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: While at NAB2014 in Las Vegas earlier this week I stumbled upon a small company (http://www.video-stitch.com/) with a 360 degree video product offering. Their product was actually software running on a computer that stitches together the streams from four video cameras. The resulting stream is fed into an Oculus Rift VR headset. You can look around the scene in a very natural way, the systems rendering the stream that most correctly reflect your current perspective. The camera arrangement very closely resembled the tetrahedral array of microphones common to Soundfield mics. I took a pic with my phone. http://www.mgraves.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-07-11.31.15.jpg The company had no knowledge of Ambisonics, but said that processing audio corresponding to the spherical video was on their wish list. I gave them a brief introduction and showed them a picture of a Core Sound Tetra mic to get them started down the path. They seemed to be quite enthusiastic about it. Michael -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140410/264339df/attachment.html ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140410/c3e277ce/attachment.html ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
Re: [Sursound] NAB2014 Sighting; 360 degree camera arrangement very like a Soundfield microphone
We're doing this kind of video recording and Rift playback, using a TetraMic for the audio. Ambisonics seems to be the only sane choice for this kind of material. The only other VR application I've encountered that uses it was at the Stanford VR lab. Our recent press coverage has lots of shots of the TetraMic. http://time.com/49228/jaunt-wants-to-help-hollywood-make-virtual-reality-movies/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/03/jaunt-vr/?ncid=rss_truncated http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/jaunt-vr/ http://gizmodo.com/meet-the-crazy-camera-that-could-make-movies-for-the-oc-1557318674 -- Adam Somers Jaunt, Inc. http://jauntvr.com On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Aaron Heller hel...@ai.sri.com wrote: I recall this camera cluster being used for the Lincoln Sound and Vision production with that odd four faced binaural dummy head. http://now.lincoln.com/2013/02/an-entirely-new-sound-and-vision-2/ On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:39 AM, mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: While at NAB2014 in Las Vegas earlier this week I stumbled upon a small company (http://www.video-stitch.com/) with a 360 degree video product offering. Their product was actually software running on a computer that stitches together the streams from four video cameras. The resulting stream is fed into an Oculus Rift VR headset. You can look around the scene in a very natural way, the systems rendering the stream that most correctly reflect your current perspective. The camera arrangement very closely resembled the tetrahedral array of microphones common to Soundfield mics. I took a pic with my phone. http://www.mgraves.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-07-11.31.15.jpg The company had no knowledge of Ambisonics, but said that processing audio corresponding to the spherical video was on their wish list. I gave them a brief introduction and showed them a picture of a Core Sound Tetra mic to get them started down the path. They seemed to be quite enthusiastic about it. Michael -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140410/264339df/attachment.html ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140410/c3e277ce/attachment.html ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140410/06b538e1/attachment.html ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
