360° Camera and VR

Arthus Huang

We started to learn AR/VR technology years ago. It should be able to improve our meeting experience.

Camera

In order to get VR video, we should take 360° view video at first. We bought Giroptic's 360cam and its PoE Ethernet Adapter Base to set up the IP camera system.

Giroptic's 360° Camera

Streaming server

You can get a RTSP stream from the IP camera directly. However, lots of media player does not support RTSP stream. RTSP is designed for Flash only, so we need a server to convert the stream to other formats.

Wowza Streaming Engine is best solution I can find. Here is the dash board for Wowza Stream Enginer.

Wowza Streaming Engine

Watch the live on iPhone

360° View

You can use Insta360Player to watch the 360° live. It's not a sized video any more. You can swipe to choose best view.

Normal View

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Full Fcreen View

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Zoom Out View

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VR View

If you have any VR glass, you can watch the life in VR mode.

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HTML prototype

It's also possible to display the 360° View video with HTML5. The following is a screenshot for our simple demo.

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