Facebook and RED Cinema announced a partnership to create the world’s first commercially available camera to capture scenes with six degrees of freedom (6DOF), the next generation of virtual reality. Facebook has had their feet in the door of this space for quite some time, especially after the acquisition of Oculus. Now they have a camera partner, and the result is that Facebook will have a complete production ecosystem, from capture to playback, if this works out.
The press release stated that “RED’s unparalleled image and pixel quality combined with Facebook depth estimation technology will deliver an all-in-one solution for the highest quality and most realistic 3D and 360° capture.” In short, this would be the new standard for VR, a space that right now seems to have stagnated as no one has been able to jump the hurdles that make VR at present nothing more than a somewhat amusing toy.
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Source: Imaging Resource