With full force to Facebook tried hard to obtain virtual reality to the people - no wonder the group has yet taken over two years ago Oculus Rift. But even then it was clear that the social media giant the VR goggles do not buy for fun: be "social" universe should still be Engaging through the immersive technology. pic1 to capture the real existing world outside Facebook Announces now a 360 rig on, consisting of 17 industrial cameras, 14 of them, arranged in a horizontal ring, weitwinkling film, supplemented by three FishEye cameras, which are to cover the top and bottom. And as CEO Zuckerberg money still does not want to earn with hardware, but with advertising, is the plan and the required code to create from the video streams a spherical video, as open sourceposted on GitHub. In summer, it should be so far; the ffmpeg extension Transform to the effective calculating VR video has facebook already published. With the surround 360 Rig can you can shoot up to 2 hours at a stretch, is recorded on SSDs. At data rate Facebook is 1Gbit / s per camera. As is set to cameras in the industrial area - to see in the product picture models Point Grey - they are equipped with global shutter. The camera control is to take place over a browser interface. also stereoscopic data is in combining the video streams via optical flow is calculated (which apparently takes a long time), the surround video is so in s3D
ffmpeg extension Transform to the effective calculating VR video has facebook already published. With the surround 360 Rig can you can shoot up to 2 hours at a stretch, is recorded on SSDs. At data rate Facebook is 1Gbit / s per camera. As is set to cameras in the industrial area - to see in the product picture models 
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