Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/11/guy-puts-a-360-degree-camera-i.html
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Isn’t that 180-degree? With a 360, you would see people running away, too, right?
Am I missing something here?
Good thing the streets are generally well kept in Japan.
Ya gotta use your mouse to tilt around. You can get them running away.
Pfft… I didn’t come here to work!
[Thanks, I actually watched it twice and didn’t think to interact with it ]
Yes. Pan around with the mouse. But it’s still 180 degrees, as you cannot look down.
So, someone hid a camera in a hole in the ground, filmed upwards while people walked or ran over it, without consent I suspect, and posted the video on the internet. And that’s OK? Cory?
Wasn’t very thrilling. The person’s YT channel claims “This is SO COOL…” I guess if your 18 or so.
It absolutely is 360 degrees in the horizontal plane - you can spin all the way around - and about 90 degrees in the vertical (you can look straight up. and maybe a little further; in the few seconds when it’s in his hand, I can’t tell whether I’m able to see below the horizon or not.)
This is pretty neat, although I’m ashamed to admit that the first thing I thought was “Why was that cop just standing there? A guy just ran into the path of an oncoming marathon and planted a device in the road. That could have been a bomb or something!”
Stupid 21st century. Go 360degree cammers!
It is effectively 180, maybe 200 degree upward facing fisheye with a user-controlled perspective extraction.
Just because you can pan all the way around the perimeter of an image doesn’t make it a full 360 image.
It’s also flopped for some reason.
Like a Brendan Fraser movie?
That is a deep track.
he has it face down or it’s the software
From the OP: Lawyer Viva Frei saw a pothole on a street closed off for a charity run, so he got permission to put his new 360-degree camera in and got a pretty neat shot.
Questions?
Yes, it is. This is a public place. There is no expectation of privacy in the middle of a street.
I was thinking it was more like 6.2 or so steradians. I could be off by a bit …
I don’t think the lack of expectation of privacy on a public street extends to a surreptitious camera pointed up your loose running shorts.
Although to actually capture an image of such fast moving, well-shaded nether regions, you’d need a very good camera.
From the OP
…“stunning POV…”
“… it’s awesome nonetheless. Enjoy! Peace out…”
“…this was too cool not to share…”
“…IT’S VIRTUAL REALITY AND IT’S SOOOOO COOOOL!!!”
Sounds like a teenager IMO. I have no questions. Get off my lawn.