February 2, 2024 In 2017 I bought a used Oculus Rift DK2 from a startup here in the Bay Area. VR seemed like such an obvious evolution of computing I just had to try it myself. At that time I didn't have a single Windows system in my house, running a mix of Linux and...
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Apple Vision Pro Announcement
Finally after years of anticipation we got a view of Apple’s new VR headset!
LiDAR Projects
LIDAR capture has been a mainstay of self driving vehicles for years now. The technology has really benefited from the DIY approach of the robotics industry. As a result fairly affordable LIDAR sensors are readily available, but not a lot of prosumer type cameras. We...
Lightfield Photography
I have explored assembling lightfields with horizontal only disparity using a circle of cameras. This allows a viewer to move side to side and see parallax, but you can't move up and down. Surprisingly this works pretty well in VR, and the relative simplicity makes it...
Where Can I Find Other VR Photographers?
VR Photography is a pretty new field, although photographers have been doing similar things for decades! Sometimes it can feel lonely on the Internet pushing a new area. Organizations IVRPA International VR Professionals
Single Camera VR Photos
After shooting several months with the GoPro I realized I was missing a little bit of quality, and I wanted to push to the next level and add stereo capability. For this project I created a rotating disk to mount my Panasonic G7 on. A snow storm was heading to...
PTGui Stereo Stitching
PTGui is a well respected panorama stitching tool. However, at the moment it does not provide an "official" way to stitch stereo equirectangulars. There is a way though, it just requires a little extra work. REFERENCES Definitive Video "Stereo Stitching with PTGui" by...