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Giroptic is a French startup based in Lille (North of France) will revolutionize telephone communication on October 26 by allowing users make phone calls in 360° just using a smartphone and a small add-on module.
The start-up works in 360°captation since 2008, and has since become an international reference in that domain.
360° video technology allows users to live a full immersion experience within a real environment. To achieve this, you need a camera equipped with at least two cameras, plus a digital process allowing the stitching of the images to recreate one spherical environment.
This is exactly what Giroptic is doing, in a simple, immediate fashion, to enable direct phone calls in 360°.
During Facebook’s conference last April, Mark Zuckerberg abundantly commented on 360° video and AR, two hot topics for Facebook founder, who gave away more than 4,400 Giroptic modules to the audience.
“We are experts in 360° picture and video captation; the user experience for our product is very simple: you just need to clip and click”, Cyril Gryson, the founder of Giroptic, says.
This 26 October, the French startup will officially launch an application that will make 360° calls possible to everyone. It will be a world’s first. “We’ll all be able to call anyone in 360°; we are the only ones able to propose this technology at this point. Giroptic is the Facetime of the future.”
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Source: VRrOOm France