| ThatDanishGamer said:
This is the new VR product from Nokia. It's a camera and not a new headset as many of you guessed.
The Ozo is a 360 degree virtual reality camera that can also record audio, all contained in a spherical ball. The Ozo has eight cameras and eight microphones around its surface, and can enable filmmakers to create virtual reality (VR) video in real time, which can be viewed in a VR head-mounted display (HMD). Another feature Nokia has touted is the Ozo’s ability to churn out a low-resolution version of the footage in a few minutes for filmmakers to see. This process normally could take hours as the VR footage is stitched together. Nokia has said the device should be available by the end of 2015. |
The reveal video is shit. But what the thing is is very cool. Take this camera to all sorts of incredibly amazing places, on Earth and the Moon, Mars, Venus, Pluto, wherever and voila, virtual tours of all the places you wanted to visit but never could.
Lol, imagine booking a tour of Egypt. You pop on a VR headset, you get live stream from a robot mounted OZO and you drive the robot with a controller. Hundreds of OZO mounted robots all buzzing around the pyramids. Switch to a drone that is flying a fixed circuit around the ruins and you get a bird's eye view. A one day virtual tour package of the Egyptian pyramids for a tiny $300. A non-self drive virtual tour of Mars for $1000.
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