How to add 360 degree VR footage

The 360 panorama is not created out of thin air, to create a 360 panorama, we need to have the original image material, the source of the original image material can be:

A. Fisheye images obtained by using the camera's panorama shooting function in a real scene

B. Virtual images obtained by modeling and rendering

The table below compares the original image material obtained by using different The following table compares the fisheye images that can be obtained with different equipment, camera positions, stitching modes, and shooting difficulties

Type of original image material Camera equipment used Camera position used Stitching mode used Feature description

Drum-shaped, fisheye image with both sides sliced:

180 degrees at the top and bottom curves

Nikon or Canon DSLR camera

Sigma 8mm lens Shooting vertically

Shooting a horizontal circle of four fisheye images, stitched together in (Drum) mode:

Simple to shoot

Sharp image

Recommended

Full-frame, fisheye image sliced on all sides:

180 degrees at the diagonal

Nikon DSLRs Nikon 10.5mm lens Shooting vertically

Shooting horizontally in a circle of six or plus two fisheye images in the sky and earth, stitched together in (Fullframe6+X) mode:

Shooting is more complex

Image is sharp

Fullframe, fisheye image sliced in all four sides:

180 degrees on the diagonal

Nikon DSLR Nikon 10.5mm lens Shooting horizontally

Shooting horizontally in a circle of four or plus two fisheye images from heaven and earth, stitched together in (Fullframe4+X) mode:

Shooting is more complex

Image is sharp

Full circle, with all angles capable of 180 degrees and above

Nikon or Canon full-frame DSLR Sigma 8MM fisheye lens Shoot horizontally or vertically

Shoot horizontally two or three fisheye images, stitched together in (Circular) mode:

Simple to shoot

Sharp images

Virtual images, obtained by rendering of the scene from 3D modeling:

90 degrees * 90 degrees

3Dmax

Maya

AutoCAD

or other software modeling None Rendering of the image of the six faces in the form of a square, assembled in (Cube Face) mode:

The effect can be configured

To shoot a panoramic footage we need to use a number of professional equipment.

Digital SLR camera

Fisheye lens

Panoramic head

Tripod

Finally, let's look at how to generate 360 panoramic images using stock footage

Step 1: Shooting panoramic raw footage

By a professional photographer with a professional camera, a fisheye lens, and a tripod. Take photos of cars, rooms or other objects that need to be displayed in 360 panorama

Let's look at the three spare raw materials

Step 2: Use "PTGui Pro" software to synthesize panorama pictures

Download "PTGui Pro" software (download it here). Pro" software (download address) and install it, then open the software:

According to the prompts, click on "Load Image", and import the original panorama material as follows:

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Next, click on "Align Image". "Align Image"

If the image is taken in the right place, the software will go directly to the panorama editing process

Usually, we don't make any changes to the image here, and just close the editor to go to the next step of "Creating Panorama". "

Sometimes the image is not so accurate, so we need to adjust the image manually

As shown in the picture:

We need to compare the left and right images, and find the overlapping points on the image (at least 3 points) to mark

As shown in the picture:

On the picture above we have A **** find a number of points where the two images overlap and mark them, and so on, you need to mark at least 3 "control points" for all the images that may overlap.

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After adjusting the image, we can create a panorama

Set the directory of the output file, click on "Create Panorama", and we have a processed panorama.

Look at the panoramic picture we got:

This picture is the so-called "panoramic picture", see very dizzy, it does not matter, it is still only a half-finished product, through the third step, we will further process this picture to generate the effect of a beautiful 360 panoramic display effect

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Step 3: Use "Pano2VR" software to realize the 360 panorama effect

Download the "Pano2VR

Download the "Pano2VR" software (download address) and install it, then open the software:

In the picture above, click "Select Input" to import the panoramic pictures generated in the second step; at the same time, click the drop-down box of "New Output Format" and select "Pano2VR". drop-down box, select the "HTML5" option, and then click the "Add" button

As shown in the figure

Click the Add button to get

Set the size of the cube sheet to 700

Set the output directory of the output file, and then click OK. After setting the output directory of the file and clicking OK, the 360 panorama effect will start to be generated

Open the output directory and we can see

At this time, the browser will automatically open the .html file in the above picture, and the 360 panorama effect can be appreciated

Please remember to set the 6 files in the "images

Please remember to upload the 6 pictures in the "images" directory to the server of Weimeng through the location of uploading panoramic pictures in the background of Weimeng, then you can view the 360 panoramic effect through your mobile phone

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