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Grapefruit Cam in WSJ

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Interesting video coverage of Immersive's 360 camera in Wall WSJ this week:

"Immersive Media Corp. (TSXV: IMC) (“IMC”), the leader in 360º spherical video technology, has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and WSJ.com as part of reporter Andy Jordan’s “Tech Diary” series. In this profile, Andy spent some time in New York City with an Immersive Media team and at a Red Bull event that Immersive Media was filming. Entitled Tech Diary: The Grapefruit Cam, the profile is available for viewing at WSJ.com".

"As a technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Andy Jordan regularly chronicles the stories that can be found when people and technology come together. In this episode, he asks “What if streaming video could be shot in 360 degrees?” He finds the answer when he takes Tech Diary to a Red Bull big jump to check it out. “The mouse moves where the spinal column can't,” says Andy Jordan, describing a “mondo geodesic streaming video dome camera the size of a grapefruit with 11 lenses.”

Similar to work we did with a pano camera that SONY research built and provided for a sponsored a class here in IMD and IML a few years ago.

Comments

The LadyBug3 from Point Grey was featured at Siggraph this year at around $20k and was quite cool:
http://www.ptgrey.com/products/ladybug3/index.asp

Another camera of interest around $15k is this matrix camera:
http://www.ptgrey.com/products/profusion25/index.asp

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