Lucid VR (Someone is going to get rich selling cameras for virtual reality.)
Lucid VR’s answer to these challenges has been to simplify the camera. Instead of a 360-degree view, the LucidCam offers a 180-degree vantage. That means less memory and computer processing is required. It also limits the headaches associated with stitching by using proprietary software to read and process video data in real time.
Morris May, founder and chief executive of VR production company Specular Theory in Venice, is a fan of Lucid’s simplicity. The filmmaker, who had one of his projects shown at Sundance Film Festival, said all VR cameras, regardless of sophistication and price, have their shortcomings — be it light, sound or clarity.
“There is always something wrong with VR” cameras, he said. “One-hundred and eighty-degrees gives you less that’s wrong.”
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