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Making stereoscopic 3D photos and videos for Oculus Go

maximsadym
Explorer
Hi all,
I'm going to hiking trip to mountains and I want to make some stereo photos and videos.
The question is how to make it? I don't want to have just 360 photos, I want real 3d stereo photos and videos.
Did anybody tried to solve this? I'm considering getting 2 goPro and fix them onto a stick, which will allow to make even Hyper Stereo, which will be very impressive in mountains. But the questions are:
1. How to synchronise photos and videos
2. How to merge them to 1 photo
3. How to view them afterwards on my Oculus Go and how to share it with my friends?
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maximsadym
Explorer
Ok, I found that Blender can make 3D videos. But there is still question about 3d images.

Seth_Loquent
Explorer
Rather than tape together two GoPros, you could use a device and app that's designed for exactly what you want. It's a bit of an outlay, but then, good cameras are worth the money. 🙂
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07968K3GJ
Or the little brother, for less money:
https://smile.amazon.com/Vuze-3D-360%C2%B0-Camera-Blue/dp/B06WWG7SB6
They shoot video and photos, as well as surround sound audio.

Roaster
Rising Star
A stereo 3d camera would be best.  I use a Fugi W3, but there is also the LucidCam which is 3d 180 4K https://www.lucidcam.com/store/ at $399us
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cybereality
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I'm not sure about 3D photos (unless there is 3rd party software I haven't tried) but you should be able to play 3D videos in Oculus Video or other video apps.
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Roaster
Rising Star


I'm not sure about 3D photos (unless there is 3rd party software I haven't tried) but you should be able to play 3D videos in Oculus Video or other video apps.


You could post your sbs pics to youtube as a slide show and display them with the full screen browser in 3d.
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loulou56
Honored Guest

I did not find anything for 3D photos, what a shame for a 3D player

maximsadym
Explorer

Roaster said:



I'm not sure about 3D photos (unless there is 3rd party software I haven't tried) but you should be able to play 3D videos in Oculus Video or other video apps.


You could post your sbs pics to youtube as a slide show and display them with the full screen browser in 3d.


Which is a bit ugly (

Roaster
Rising Star

loulou56 said:


I did not find anything for 3D photos, what a shame for a 3D player


I just found Samsung VR can display sbs stills in 3D. It's good now.

Edit ... half-sbs stills only.

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tksharpless
Explorer
It is perfectly possible to make stereoscopic 3D spherical photos and video.  But it is not easy and not something you can learn overnight.  If you can afford $8K or more for a self-stitching 3D 360 video camera, no problem -- except that the VR images will be terribly soft.  If you want to do it yourself, it will still not be easy or cheap.  The least expensive rig I use to shoot stereo still panoramas cost roughly $2000, and I built a lot of it myself.  It is two small Sony mirrorless cameras with Samyang 180 degree lenses, a diode box and radio trigger to synchronize them, a bracket to hold them side by side, and a tall monopod with a surveyor's level on the side to help me hold it upright  as I turn it around to shoot 6 or more stereo pairs.  The s/w I use is PTGui -- the pros' favorite panorama stitcher -- plus PT3D, a helper program that makes PTGui into a 3D stitcher.  You need pretty heavy pano stitching skills to use that combination.  I am still learning after 8 years.