Nokia Enters The VR Business -- With A Camera

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Nokia announced OZO, a virtual reality video camera designed for professional content creators. The company said this is just the first device from a portfolio of planned digital media solutions that will be coming from Nokia Technologies.

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[LordConrad]

Looks like the "Remote" from Star Wars.

 

[alidan]

a cellphone camera costs what, 10-30$
a microphone that is ok begins at 3$

i have to assume that the stitching process is done on camera so thats probably where most of the cost ends up, so here is my question...

why not offload the stitching process to a computer/tablet/cell phone and try to gut as much of the cost as possible on things like this?

every time i see a 360 degree camera its always a few thousand dollars and the video looks like hell.

 

[jaber2]

@alidan these are not selling like hotcakes, so when you come out with something like this you have to price it where the market is willing to pay, otherwise if you price it too high it would end up on a shelf at OverStock and if you price it too low people would wonder whats wrong with it, its a delicate balance of what the market is welling to pay

 

[alidan]

@alidan these are not selling like hotcakes, so when you come out with something like this you have to price it where the market is willing to pay, otherwise if you price it too high it would end up on a shelf at OverStock and if you price it too low people would wonder whats wrong with it, its a delicate balance of what the market is welling to pay

well... they are all currently prices at rich kids toy and look like crap, there is a demand for this though it may not be strong yet. i remember the 360 camera attachments that put a chrome cone or ball above a camera and it gave you a 360 degree view of a landscape. if i remember right those didn't cost 2000-3000$ (the last 360 camera i saw was in this range) and the resulting photos once processed didn't look nearly as bad as most of the videos from special cameras like this do.

the first one to come out at sub 500$ will be the next go pro.

 

[surphninja]

I get that the stitching everything together is done in real time, but are you also able to broadcast everything in real-time? It would be cool if these could be used for video conferencing.