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Thomas Huebner is simply a passionate VR photographer. He shows shots successful a prime that you seldom get to see.

Immersive photography and videography is inactive successful a niche. The playback devices, i.e. VR headsets, are acold from being wide capable to marque it worthwhile for camera manufacturers to put successful this exertion connected a ample scale. As a result, determination are fewer affordable VR cameras with bully prime connected the market. The higher-end products are usually costly oregon truthful analyzable to usage that they are lone suitable for enthusiasts.

Since determination are nary VR cameras for the wide market, bully contented is limited, which successful crook prevents wider adoption of the technology. It’s a vicious rhythm that the VR manufacture knows each excessively well.

Low-resolution, washed-out oregon grainy VR footage: This should dependable acquainted to anyone who has travel into interaction with virtual world successful the past 10 years. The estimation of VR photography and videography is correspondingly poor. This is particularly existent for the 360-degree format, which is mostly monoscopic, i.e. without a earthy content of depth.

Wonderfully lifelike

But it tin beryllium done differently. While browsing Meta Quest TV precocious for absorbing content, I came crossed impressively crisp and high-quality VR footage from a German VR lensman and videographer: Thomas Huebner.

His videos piqued my interest, truthful I contacted Huebner to find retired what cameras and processes are utilized to make his videos.

I was peculiarly taken with 4 videos. These are moving images connected the 1 hand, and slideshows of high-resolution VR photographs connected the other:

• The Dresden Zwinger
• VR180 8K slides
• Striezelmarkt Dresden
• Pillnitz Castle

The photographs successful peculiar person a strong suggestive power that makes maine re-evaluate the immersive imaginable of VR photography and videography. The situation seems truthful existent successful places that you privation to interaction it.

What if specified crisp and lifelike shots were imaginable 1 time with accepted VR cameras? We are inactive a agelong mode from that.

High-end exertion and a batch of post-processing

For the moving images, Hübner uses a operation of Canon’s R5 nonrecreational camera and the accompanying Canon VR lens. This setup costs astir 6,000 euros. And the enactment lone begins erstwhile the footage is captured.

For post-processing, Hübner uses respective layers of software: for stereoscopic alignment and cropping, stitching, denoising and sharpening the footage. A movie filter was besides utilized successful the Pillnitz Palace footage to widen the vulnerability clip per framework and the sunlight successful the 3D image.

The VR photographs, successful turn, were taken with a homemade stereo camera strategy consisting of 2 Olympus PEN-Fs, each capturing the near and close images. Thanks to sensor-shifting technology, the solution of the photographs successful earthy format is around 100 megapixels per eye, which is wherefore the images person to beryllium downscaled afterwards. Again, respective programs are utilized for post-processing, including the AI-based representation optimization solution Topaz.

VR photography: A passionate VR hobby

Huebner is simply a maestro of his craft.

“I research the camera features, conscionable similar each lensman should get to cognize his camera. I find retired what the camera gives maine with which settings and whether I tin make an betterment with filters betwixt lens and sensor,” helium says. “With existent bundle and hardware, I’m looking for an optimal and businesslike workflow to get a effect worthy seeing and, successful video, to beryllium capable to render everything done the graphics cards.”

His VR content, helium says, is “in each lawsuit the effect of what has been achieved from the respective technology, on with the much precocious machine exertion and software.”

Despite each his expertise, Huebner is not a nonrecreational lensman and videographer, and is lone progressive with immersive signaling techniques successful his spare time. Over the past fewer years, helium has largely taught himself these techniques done proceedings and mistake and by supporting different enthusiasts who stock their experiences online.

“VR needs a broader idiosyncratic base”

He has been pursuing his hobby since 2010, triggered by the 3D boom, which rapidly died down. When Google introduced the VR180 format successful 2017, Huebner upgraded his Fuji 3D camera to a 180-degree camera by adding wide-angle lenses and wide-angle converters. He entered VR videography, oregon moving VR footage, little than a twelvemonth agone with the merchandise of Canon’s VR Lens.

Huebner uploads his slideshows and videos to Meta Quest TV arsenic good arsenic the escaped VR video level DeoVR, which helium says offers amended representation prime and is besides disposable for Pico 4 and SteamVR.

For the future, Huebner hopes for cheaper 3D cameras for consumers and a renewed committedness from Google to the VR180 format. Then determination could besides beryllium capable high-quality worldly for standalone VR headsets, which would successful crook pull much consumers. Huebner besides hopes that Canon, which has created a “very bully solution,” volition proceed to put successful VR.

However, it is besides wide to him that VR exertion indispensable archetypal go much wide earlier VR photography tin besides make further. “Only with a wide idiosyncratic basal volition virtual world for consumers past successful the agelong run,” says Huebner.

You tin find his films successful Meta Quest TV by searching for Thomas Huebner Dev oregon clicking connected the video links above. In the VR app DeoVR, you tin find Huebner’s transmission nether HuebiVR.

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