How can measurements be made when you can’t directly measure them? Measuring the height of a building could be done by someone hanging a string from the rooftop and then measuring the string. What if you can’t get access to the rooftop? What if you needed to measure the span of a lake or height of a mountain? Good luck using that string. Here is how FOV can be used as a measurement tool for objects in pictures, videos, etc. …
I had first seen spherical 360 video, which I’ll refer as SV, made by Jim Watters, http://photocreations.ca/3D/mobius_camera_rig.html. It was an accidental on line find. My intent was to research a way to use 2 cameras to create 3D video. He had used a device that he created called a multi camera panoramic video rig. It was a cluster of inexpensive Mobius HD 1080p key chain cameras that were mounted and pointed at various angles. The rig used a total of…
Uploading video to Youtube is pretty straightforward. Uploading 360 degree video will require that your source video file has the needed metadata embedded in it so it can be rendered correctly. Youtube has provided steps on how to do this here, https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6178631?hl=en. The steps are not difficult to follow and it’s worth looking through them before attempting it. I’ve got a unique situation. The Kogeto doesn’t shoot a full spherical 360 degree view. Rather, it shoots a 360 degree turret…