I've been very interested in this field since the original Kinect came out and it was discovered you can easily get the raw RGB+D data over USB. I made a bunch of prototypes and had ambitious plans to make a depth-enabled short movie for my film school MA degree project, with a player on the original iPad and head tracking for a parallax effect. (A project much too ambitious; I never finished the player or the movie or the degree.)
IMO you should hire an in-house artist right away, assuming you have funding. Right now your Featured Content section looks like demo footage from academic papers. For someone uninitiated, this content doesn't really present the potential of immersive video.
You should have someone with enough artistic vision and technical competence whose primary job is to come up with new exciting demos of your technology. That person will need patience and a start-up mentality because the content production pipeline for something this cutting-edge is probably very foreign to most artists. But it would make a huge difference in how people can understand your project.
(If I were twelve years younger I'd send you a job application right away. Working on this would have been my dream job.)
Thank you for the comment, actually we have recently captured some interesting content that will clearly demonstrate the potential of immersive video... Those are in the make so stay tuned to see what is coming next :)
As long you have the passion, this means you are young (with experience on top) for the technology. Great feedback and if you still have the kinect DK around, you may even shoot and upload some content!
I agree that we do need some better demo content that can better illustrate the potential of 3D immersive video. We are working on that right now. I encourage anyone who has some interesting content or can make some to contact me.
I'm curious why you are referring to 'Kinect'. And because I also agree that the website needs a lot of work to make it more obvious of what the software can actually do, I was wondering if you could answer me this:
Can their software measure depth and height? As in, if I take a 3D picture of an object, can it tell me the dimensions. As in, can this thing give me a computer model of a 3d object on my screen?
No, our system doesn't measure object dimensions. It provides the ability to capture a real-world scene and stream it for remote playback in which the viewer has the ability to control navigation around the scene.
I've been very interested in this field since the original Kinect came out and it was discovered you can easily get the raw RGB+D data over USB. I made a bunch of prototypes and had ambitious plans to make a depth-enabled short movie for my film school MA degree project, with a player on the original iPad and head tracking for a parallax effect. (A project much too ambitious; I never finished the player or the movie or the degree.)
IMO you should hire an in-house artist right away, assuming you have funding. Right now your Featured Content section looks like demo footage from academic papers. For someone uninitiated, this content doesn't really present the potential of immersive video.
You should have someone with enough artistic vision and technical competence whose primary job is to come up with new exciting demos of your technology. That person will need patience and a start-up mentality because the content production pipeline for something this cutting-edge is probably very foreign to most artists. But it would make a huge difference in how people can understand your project.
(If I were twelve years younger I'd send you a job application right away. Working on this would have been my dream job.)