Technology-spherical camera virtual reality Ozo-By Tech Studio
Rumors that Nokia plans to release device virtual reality turned out to true. However, the company has not started to manufacture hats and other handheld devices,online videos or playing games. Nokia not kidding, when she said their interest sphere of virtual reality. Today, it introduced the camera OZO, which is considered the first camera of virtual reality for professional content creators.
New made in the form of a sphere, with eight chambers can shoot 360-degree video and record sound from eight directions. The Finnish company is confident that Ozo will be indispensable for the filming of 3D-films, creating a new generation of games and the like. The device allows how to shoot so and mount the video in real time. In this case frames does not have to stick together the special way to obtain 3D-content.
The device, due to its shape and the optical image sensor 8 and 8 microphones can record content in the format of 3D, as well as spatial audio. With regard to the premium features Ozo, they will include the monitoring of recording the panoramic video in real time, as well as support for quickly creating a low-resolution preview. All content from the panoramic viewing angle of 360 degrees can be send on YouTube, as well as to work with him and viewed on a smartphone, tablet, PC, and directly, the virtual reality headsets. Finnish developers have promised, that with Ozo work extremely simple. The release a device is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015. The target audience the Nokia Ozo will be studio creating VR-content.
Nokia OZO, the Finnish company's 360-degree virtual reality camera, is now available in Europe for €55,000 (£43,000).
The OZO can record 360-degree audio and video in full stereoscopic 3D for playback on virtual reality headsets. Its eight synchronised cameras capture fully-spherical footage while the same number of microphones recreate the direction that recorded sound originated from.
The camera, which looks a bit like a futuristic (and very expensive) hairdryer, can also be mounted to a drone for capturing aerial footage.
Nokia has put the OZO to the test capturing footage of astronauts wearing spacesuits in immersion pools at Nasa headquarters in Houston, Texas. Other footage demoed by Nokia at a launch event in London included a band playing on top of a skyscraper and a short film where a grizzly bear comes across an unsuspecting group of campers.
The high-end OZO captures some of the most absorbing virtual reality footage around. Viewed through a Samsung Gear VR headset (though the OZO's content is playable on any VR headset), the camera's footage creates an utterly convincing virtual world
Vesa Rantanen, head of R&D at Nokia Technologies told WIRED that the OZO was inspired by the first rumours of the Oculus Rift's development. While gaming has driven many of the advancements in virtual reality headsets to date, Rantanen is hopeful that the OZO will help Nokia take a lead in VR video.
"We're working with movie studios and live performance artists - musicians and sportspeople - and also a lot of short form content; filmmakers, video makers and documentaries."
At €55,000, however, the OZO is aimed squarely at professional filmmakers rather than consumers.
Nokia also faces competition from other companies making their own 360-degree cameras. In January, Nikon announced the KeyMission 360, while GoPro has already released the $15,000 Odyssey, which packs 16 Hero4 cameras into one rig for 360-degree footage capture.
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