{"id":56952,"date":"2017-04-29T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/how-adobe-wants-to-turn-flat-360-degree-videos-into-true-virtual-reality-exclusive"},"modified":"2017-04-29T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T19:28:25","slug":"how-adobe-wants-to-turn-flat-360-degree-videos-into-true-virtual-reality-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/how-adobe-wants-to-turn-flat-360-degree-videos-into-true-virtual-reality-exclusive","title":{"rendered":"How Adobe Wants to Turn Flat 360-Degree Videos Into True Virtual Reality (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37Z4f6p1HOY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hardly a day has gone by this month without the announcement of a new virtual reality (VR) camera system. Facebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/google-yi-technology-halo-vr-camera-1202393420\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" >Google and GoPro all aim to make VR more immersive with new cameras<\/a>, some of which won\u2019t be commercially released for the foreseeable future. However, researchers at Adobe believe that you may not need new camera hardware at all for a big leap in immersion.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe\u2019s head of research Gavin Miller is going to present new cutting-edge technology at NAB in Las Vegas this Tuesday that could one day be used to turn flat, monoscopic 360-degree videos shot with consumer-grade spherical cameras into fully immersive VR video, complete with the ability to lean into the video \u2014 something that\u2019s being called six degrees of freedom (6DoF) among industry insiders.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between monoscopic 360-degree video and VR experiences offering six degrees of freedom is especially important for users of high-end VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. These headsets offer room-scale tracking, which means that the headset knows where in the room the viewer is, accurately translating a motion like \u201cleaning forward\u201d into corresponding visuals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/adobe-6dof-vr-video-algorithms-1202394491\/\">http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/adobe-6dof-vr-video-algorithms-1202394491\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly a day has gone by this month without the announcement of a new virtual reality (VR) camera system. Facebook, Google and GoPro all aim to make VR more immersive with new cameras, some of which won\u2019t be commercially released for the foreseeable future. However, researchers at Adobe believe that you may not need new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}