New Insta360 3d camera One R - 1 inch sensor twins

threed123 wrote:

They already have the Insta360 EVO, which I have, and it's just a warped mess of a wide-angle images that are way too unrealistic. Let's hope the 1-inch sensor 3D twins have a reasonable image. Since you would have to buy two, it will be over a grand. That just seems like too much, but if it delivers, then perhaps worth it. The hype on the EVO didn't deliver, so I give it a big we'll see.

I have the Evo. Nothing about it is warped, VR180 is for Head Mounted Displays. If you play the video back in an HMD with the right software there is no distortion, its a 3d 180 degree video. VR180 revolves around a circular fisheye concept. You distort the image to capture it into a square, then on playback that gets sorted out. I was hoping that the quality would be at least as good as the One X, since they are similar, but there is something significantly worse about the quality of the EVO. I get massive artifacts in the final image. Its like the compression quality is low or the sensor is tiny.

VR180 is sort of hard for me to find super useful for what I shoot. I am outside mostly and I shoot a lot of fisheye 3d, but I never have really even wanted to see what is straight up in the sky or straight down to the ground. Circular fisheye is far wider than just a normal equi fisheye. You have to spread so many pixels across this massive area that the quality for your main subject suffers too much. The gopro camera field of view seems to be ideal for what I want and its still wide enough where you don't really need a display to preview.

I guess the solution Insta360 is looking for with the 3d mod is the ability to do vr180 and normal field of view type 3d in one camera. That would be welcome as nobody makes a normal 3d camera any more.

I am going to guess here that the final solution for the insta360 3d mod will not shoot near high res or frame rate per eye because the SD card would simply not be able to take that much data in. Odds are, they have a CPU they built only to max out at 5.7k 30fps video. For a 3d rig, that ends up at 4k 30fps per eye. That would still be useful since you could get that out of a one inch sensor, which would be very unique as everything else is using tiny sensors. I hope that when you use the 4k or one inch mod, they at least keep the aspect ratio at 16:9 and not give you a square. Since the CPU of the One R is built to work with the 360 mod they have, that is 5.7k, but its gotten shooting two squares.

What would totally blow me away would be a solution that writes to two different SD cards so you could get the full quality of each mod you are shooting with. If I could get 5.7k 30fps per eye with two one inch sensors, I would be massively impressed. If they get to 4k 60fps per eye at 16:9 aspect, that would be nice. I currently shoot twin 4k 30fps per eye, and I have been doing that for many years, so I hope they can top that. The only way they could pull that off is to have the 3d mod add another CPU and sd card slot. You would need another card slot because the bitrate at the full quality for two cameras would be too much to write to a single card I think.

Another problem appears to be the screen is facing completely to the left. That is if their pictures hold up to the final design. There is also a video on youtube from Creator up that shows the 3d mod being assembled and its nothing more than just a way to connect the 2 lenses to the cpu. In all, it would be really nice, but its a big compromise. I mean, not even being able to see your screen from the back of the camera, that is just saying, we can do it, but its going to be a weird compromised 3d camera when assembled.