Seascapes: 360° Video of North Carolina Shipwrecks

[Nic Fuller]

Hi all. My name is Nic Fuller and I work as a Divemaster at Olympus Dive Center in Morehead City, North Carolina. For the past few months I have been working on putting together a 360° camera rig to take down and make clips of the many shipwrecks that we dive. Now that the summer is dying down, I have a little more time to edit the footage that I have gathered. I have started uploading some of the clips to YouTube. If you visit the channel through your YouTube app on your smart phone or tablet, you can actually move the device around in all directions to move the field of view of the camera. I am getting more footage as we speak and plan on uploading many more videos over the coming fall. If this is something you enjoy, subscribe and like the videos!

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtI8n7FQBL3Gxg39xCGp6qQ

Caribsea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4KxdLC3g5U

Thanks!

 

[seaseadee]

Holy Moley! That is very cool. I just tried it and you can move the smartphone to "look" around.

 

[Nic Fuller]

Yes! Most people don't even know what that means when I hand them the phone to watch it. Its fun watching it click.

 

[3D diver]

Cool.

Is there a desk top "app" for viewing?

Please share some pics/info about your camera setup.

Dove there over 30 years ago. Looking forward to more videos.

Thanks

 

[drrich2]

Enjoyed it. On my Mac, the 360 degree feature wasn't supported in the Safari browser, but was in Firefox.

I take it this is what was being done with that prototype I saw being used when diving with you guys the 2nd week of August.

Richard.

 

[Nic Fuller]

If you view it on your desktop, arrows will appear up in the corner for navigation just like Google Earth. The rig is 6 GoPros mounted on the 360Heros H6, with ultra wide lenses attached for a better field of view.
I was messing with it at the beginning of August, but that prototype was scrapped.

 

[3D diver]

Darn! I'll bet it needs HTML5. I have that disabled so I can watch 3D videos.

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Double Darn! Just enabled HTML5 in Internet Explorer and it still doesn't work.

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Ok, enabled HTML5 in Firefox & it works! Yay!. Pretty cool.

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Ok...I realize I may have become a pest, sorry,...but it turns out my Kodak SP360 cameras support 360 degree viewing too!!!!! I'm uploading test clips now. Thanks for posting this thread and leading me to this.

The resolutions poor & camera orientation wrong...but it works:

 

[Nic Fuller]

Your camera supports 360 by default? How does that work?

 

[3D diver]

Sorry for the late reply...I've been on a little vacation.

The SP360 is an odd little camera. It has a wide angle lens that captures pretty much everything in front of it (basically 180 degree arc in all directions...if that makes sense). They have a program that allows you to convert the resulting bug-eye video into other formats---panorama or sub-views of the full image---and have released a beta version that processes the video for use in the YouTube 360 view. I don't have a photo handy, but here's a link to their web site:

Kodak Digital Cameras | SP360 Action Camera

If you snoop around on my youtube channel (via the link above) you'll find several videos I made, in combination with my gopros and other cameras, using it in a conventional way. I'm pondering ways to use it in the 360 view mode.