VR-Eye Spherical vision camera

Thanks, really looks like a great product for my BBBMini FPV aerial Plane. I was in the process of integrating a standard gimbal unit and a USB camera controlled by an Edtracker installed on HK Cyclop goggles: That is pretty close to your target price, so I will hold it for the moment and wait a little...;-)

Other question: Have you worked on a OSD integration with this ?

It would be great to have both the platform dash board and the observer azimuth on the same screen, with an autolock option to get the observer view aligned with the airplane....in case I get confused trying to fly backward !!

Fnoop July 15, 2016 at 5:01am

Oh goody, looks like Darius Jack is back..

Global Innovator July 14, 2016 at 6:24pm

Dear MAGnet Systems,

could you kindly explain me how do you expect spherical camera or fisheye, wide angle lens camera, pointed upwards

can work with VR headset, generating separate image for the left eye and separate image for the right eye, if image distorsion generated by fisheye, wide angle lens, pointing upwards, affects 3D perspective view.

So you don't have undistorted perspective view image/video to create stereoscopic 3D view and video on-the-fly.

Please have a look at your video and my examples of 360 panoramas viewers.

You don't get perspective view with your spherical camera (fisheye lens) since straight vertical and horizontal

parallel lines are no more parallel to generate 3D stereoscopic video to be played with VR device (3D glasses).

If you don't get undistorted 3D stereoscopic view (video source), you don't get sharp 3D video

and watching not sharp, distorted 3D stereoscopic video may hurt your vision system (headaches, problems to restore clear sharp 3D perspective vision, after leaving VR headset environment.

Let me know your opinion.

MAGnet Systems July 14, 2016 at 3:27pm

@ Patrick, The “Fly by vision” mode is currently being implemented and it will be available on the September release. This mode will give you the option to point with your VR headset to a physical object you see on the video stream, press the Gear-VR side button to designate it as a target, and a pop-up menu will allow you to select one of the available options i.e. to fly there, land there, keep the camera locked there, etc. Other basic functions will also be available like Take-off and Land.

Please note that this release will not be confined to the Gear-VR device only but will work with every compatible Android device (equipped with the appropriate IMU sensors like most of them do). About the integration with the current Android GCS version, it’s not on our imminent plans for now but if we get enough interest we would certainly look at it.

Speaking about affordability, our goal is to offer this camera and supporting software bundle at the $220-250 price range. After the quotations we got for bulk quantities orders we are confident that we’ll achieve this goal.

Patrick Poirier July 14, 2016 at 11:09am

@MAGnet Systems

This is a very interesting product, hope I can afford it for my FPV plane.

Questions:

Are you planning to integrate the your App with the existing Android Ground control so we can get a fully integrated product on a tablet ?

What about the immersion product : Fly-by-vision: An upcoming VR-headset mode that will allow flying the drone and control its main functions (i.e. “Fly-here”, “Point-camera-here”, take-off, land, RTL) by only using a VR-headset like Google cardboard or Gear-VR. == Do you have more info on this?

Best of luck :-)

Global Innovator July 14, 2016 at 9:42am

follow-up

If you don't offer Z-depth maps, your spherical vision camera is not fit for obstacle avoidance technology.

Global Innovator July 14, 2016 at 9:40am

@MAGnet Systems

I mean 360 Panoramas

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7909488,-122.3892587,3a,75y,299.66h...!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sm47TJcw2nxMAAAQJOQfg1A!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656

since it's easy to turn smartphone into wide angle, fisheye camera

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=android+camera+lens

with Photo Sphere, 360 Panos for Android

https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/trusted/#intro

what I mean is if your mathematicians have ever worked on generation of depth maps, 3D point clouds from

spherical video.

With more sophisticated, real time image/ video processing, you can turn your smartphone into 3D scanner (manually operated - moved by hand) today.

The problem is to build such 3D scanner if you replace lens to wide angle or fisheye, since image distortions force your graphical processor to get busy to project one sphere to another sphere if you move ( change geolocation of your camera and tilt.

Z-depth maps in 360 panoramas is not just another great idea, this is the high-tech challenge.

You must be large to join such challenge.

What you offer is oferred by others

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/4623343664/hand-on-with-the-androi...

Indoor 360 panoramas by Google set the challenge

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7909263,-122.3892977,3a,75y,299.66h...!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sSewVWH0M7pYAAAQJOQfg8w!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656

what comes next are Z-depth maps in 360 panoramas
and challenge is still open

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