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Capturing VR content with a smartphone

Capturing VR content with a smartphone

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Capturing VR content with a smartphone

- So the smart phones actually become a really popular tool for content creation. People shoot photos and video, but you can also shoot 360 images with the smart phone. - Yeah, there's a wealth of apps for just about everything. The way that this often works is that the smart phone can create a stitched VR photograph. And so you'd launch an app, there are many out there. I use one from Microsoft, but there are a ton of others, and essentially pan your body and lean up, and build it as a sphere. This will then create a VR photo that's stitched together inside the camera itself, and this solution works reasonably well, but it's not super fast. - Now if you want to step it up, you can actually go on to adding a dedicated camera that actually connects to your smart phone. - Yeah, and these will be available for both Android and iOS mounts. They'll typically go into your charging port, and what's the benefit here Francis? - The benefit is not only one it's faster to capture, but you don't…

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