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#Facebook presenta nuevas versiones de su cámara #Surround360

#Facebook presenta nuevas versiones de su cámara #Surround360

El pasado año, durante la conferencia de desarrolladores F8 de Facebook, la compañía publicó las especificaciones de Surround 360, su modelo de cámara de grabación esférica, a través de GitHub, señalando tanto los componentes necesarios como las instrucciones para su desarrollo así como el código fuente del sistema, para que los mismos usuarios se pudieran manos a la obra y obtuvieran sus…

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#Facebook presenta nuevas versiones de su cámara #Surround360

#Facebook presenta nuevas versiones de su cámara #Surround360

El pasado año, durante la conferencia de desarrolladores F8 de Facebook, la compañía publicó las especificaciones de Surround 360, su modelo de cámara de grabación esférica, a través de GitHub, señalando tanto los componentes necesarios como las instrucciones para su desarrollo así como el código fuente del sistema, para que los mismos usuarios se pudieran manos a la obra y obtuvieran sus…

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Facebook deja en Open Source a su software de manejo de fotos de 360 grados

Facebook deja en Open Source a su software de manejo de fotos de 360 grados

Es posible que esta semana escuches a menudo el nombre de Surround 360 y se trata nada más y nada menos que un software con el cual la red social Facebook maneja fotos de 360 grados y ahora ha sido publicada. Facebook se ha vuelto una de las tantas importantes tecnológicas que cede sus tecnología mediante acceso libre de códigos o conocido como el concepto de Open Source y en esta ocasión se…

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Facebook To Develop A Stand-alone App Plus Here's the Just Announced Facebook Surround 360; Facebook's Answer To GoPro

Facebook has never been shy of delving into waters previously reserved for some of its biggest competitors. The Wall Street Journal  is reporting that  Facebook is developing a stand-alone camera app that will allow users live stream as well. According to the report, a prototype is currently being developed by the Facebook team and is in the early stages. The aim is to encourage sharing among users on Facebook which according to reports is on the decline. Reports have it original broadcast sharing on Facebook was down 21% year on year. This by itself could signal less engagement and Facebook thinks a stand-alone app for your own photos (original broadcast) could do the magic even as 33% of users said they updated their profile status in the past month and 37% said they uploaded and shared their own photos in a separate poll by GlobalWebIndex. This was carried out in the first quarter of 2016 and meanwhile when compared to a year ago, 44% of users said they updated their profile status in the month before while another 46% said they uploaded and shared their photos.

The news is not all bad for the social media giant though as more users clicked the “Like” button in the first quarter of 2016 by a good margin, 82% of users clicked the button at least once in the month before and this is up 9% from the same period last year. This could easily be attributed to the changes brought to the Like button as we know it. Instead of a dislike button as many expected, Facebook introduced a series of emotional emojis to reflect how you feel at a particular time about a post. All you have to do it hover your mouse on the Like button and you can select which one best describes how you feel. Its these kinds of services that keep users logged on to the site.

Facebook has now gone from being a photo sharing site to videos with plans to collaborate even more with content creators to make original videos for the site in a profit sharing scheme. This is similar to what YouTube does but it’s not the only one who’s looking to tap into the potentials of video on social media. Snapchat is another company with an eye on videos.

Facebook’s Save feature is now being used by about 250 million users with plans to make the service even more visible. All of these is to encourage more users to stay on Facebook but its seems Facebook might be ready to address the one challenge of sharing it has. This app like other apps it tried to release in the past  without much success like sling shot (a Snapchat like app) always start out with much excitement but are short lived. This may be different though as the report also says there will be an instant Instagram share as well when the app gets released. It sure looks like Facebook wants to go the stand-alone apps way this time though to make services more streamlined.

Facebook now has nearly 1.6 billion users with an aim to reach more people even in remote regions through its internet.org program.

In other Facebook news which we didn’t report after its recently concluded F8 conference, Facebook now has  a high quality 3D-360 camera it calls Surround 360.

Facebook Surround 360 uses a 17-camera array and a web-based software to capture images in 360 degrees and render them automatically. The aim of this is to increase the amount of 360-degree video on its platform and more interestingly, its open source and  there are plans to release it as an open-source project on GitHub. Features include

14 wide angle cameras on a horizontal ring

1 fish eye lens on top and 2 on bottom for complete spherical coverage

Global shutter ensures that each camera captures the pixels in sync

It costs $30,000 to buy the materials necessary to build a Surround 360. Devices like this could change the face of film making especially with respect to cost and creativity due to the open source nature of it.

It will be available in the summer of 2016.

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Facebook Surround 360: uma câmera com realidade virtual de 360 ​​graus

Surround 360 possui 17 câmeras que gravam em 4K e transmitem via realidade virtual (Foto: Divulgação/Facebook)

O Facebook anunciou durante seu evento para desenvolvedores, a F8, o Surround 360. O dispositivo pretende popularizar e facilitar a produção de vídeos em 360º, também compatível com a realidade virtual.

Conforme o próprio Mark Zuckerberg disse durante a apresentação, o dispositivo torna muito mais fácil o processo de pós-produção dos vídeos.

O Facebook Surround 360 tem 17 lentes 3D capazes de gravar vídeo (4K) e fazer transmissões para óculos de realidade virtual. Também tira fotografias em 4K, 6K e 8K, conseguindo produzir imagens de 30 GBs. O projeto é open-source e estará aberto a todos os interessados a partir da segunda metade de 2016.

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Facebook reveals its open-source 360 degree camera array

Facebook reveals its open-source 360 degree camera array #tech

Now that the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive are launching, thus beginning Virtual-reality’s re-emergence into the mass-market, content creators should start creating content for this new medium.  (more…)

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Surround 360, la videocamera di Facebook per la realtà virtuale

Gira video immersivi in 8K: il suo design open source sarà presto disponibile su Github.

San Francisco – Le piattaforme dove caricare i video a 360 gradi ad oggi sono ancora solo due: Facebook e YouTube. Già un anno fa Google aveva annunciato Jump, un supporto circolare per assemblare 16 GoPro e ralizzare video immersivi; oggi Facebook ha mostrato Surround 360, una videocamera a forma di disco volante realizzata con 14 lenti grandangolari da 77 gradi ognuna e due fisheye in alto e in basso da 185 gradi.

Facebook è solo l’ultima delle grandi aziende ad unirsi alla festa: l’offerta di videocamere in grado di realizzare video 3D stereoscopici va da piccole videocamere come Ricoh Theta, 360Cam, Kodak Pixpro e Samsung Gear 360 a grandi apparecchi professionali come la Nokia OZO, una palla da circa 60mila dollari.

“Abbiamo deciso di creare la videocamera 360 perfetta”, ha detto durante la presentazione Chris Cox, VP di Facebook responsabile della Timeline: Surround 360 può creare panorami da 41 megapixel e video sferici in qualità 8K a 60 frame al secondo, riuscendo a salvare sulla memoria locale fino a due ore di filmati.

Ha un valore di circa 30mila dollari ma il suo design è in open source, nel tentativo di stimolare il più possibile la creazione di video a 360 gradi e proseguire la trasformazione della timeline di Facebook che aveva presentato già un anno fa: dagli aggiornamenti testuali alle foto ai video e, presto, alla realtà virtuale.

Il progetto della Surround 360 camera sarà reso disponibile da Facebook su Github la prossima estate. Insieme alla videocamera, naturalmente, Facebook ha realizzato anche il software per assemblare le immagini di ogni singola lente e dar vita ai video immersivi. Per rivederli, la scelta di visori inizia ad essere piuttosto vasta: con Oculus VR e in collaborazione con Samsung proprio Facebook ha realizzato Gear VR, visore da appena 99 dollari che funziona in abbinamento a uno smartphone Galaxy S6 o S7. Ci sono poi i meno costosi Google Cardboard e i più complessi Oculus Rift e HTC Vive.

Da qui a 10 anni, invece, secondo Zuckerberg “i visori per realtà virtuale e realtà aumentata assomiglieranno sempre più a normali occhiali” e non avrai più bisogno di guardare un telefono o un tv per vedere un’immagine: basterà schioccare le dita per farla apparire davanti ai propri occhi. Le videocamere, poi, saranno presto in grado di trasmettere i video a 360 gradi anche in streaming in diretta. già oggi solo su Gear VR sono stati guardate oltre 2 milioni di ore di video immersivi. Ma la realtà virtuale non è solo video: è anche giochi.

“La realtà virtuale ti farà sembrare di essere davvero in presenza di un’altra persona”, ha detto Zuckerberg mostrando la demo di Toy Box, un gioco per Oculus in cui si può tirare all’avversario qualsiasi cosa sia virtualmente presente nella stanza.

(Credits: wired.it)