Guide read: Facebook last year announced an open-source Surround 360 panoramic camera, at present the relevant code has been released in making platform, anyone can by buying the right components to build the equipment.

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Facebook last year announced an open-source Surround 360 panoramic camera, at present the relevant code has been released in making platform, anyone can by buying the right components to build the equipment.The camera overall appearance adopted UFO type design, with 17 high-definition cameras, including circle around 14 wide Angle camera, one at the top of the fisheye camera and 2 at the bottom of the camera.

Now Facebook has unveiled two new panoramic camera models, including Facebook's Surround 360 x24 and Facebook's Surround 360 x6.

X24 means there are 24 cameras, and x6 is the same thing.But how many cameras are not the point.The point is that both x24 and x6 can capture 360 video in-depth information and provide six degrees of freedom (6DoF) tracking capability.This means that you can move your vision not only up and down, but also in 360 video, or swing backwards and forwards (the effect is as follows).This is also the ability of the current 360-degree video to be unable to provide.

VR technology net understand x24 to each figure yuan for each camera can capture the complete RGB and depth information, that is to say, can be in complete 360 - degree 4 times every point the subdivisions, providing "best image quality and resolution of all six degrees of freedom point cloud".And the subdivision of x6 is said to be three times.

In addition, each frame of video equipment will capture the depth information, due to the output through the 3 d format, so the video can be input into the existing VFX (visual) software tools, the combination of live-action and computer generated images together, to create immediate capture and CGI mix effect (as below).

About six degrees of freedom video post-production, Facebook is cooperating with a series of post-production studios and VFX studios, make joint working process and tool chain.This includes Adobe, Otoy, Foundry, Mettle, DXO, Here Be Dragons, Framestore, Magnopus, and The Mill.

At the moment, Facebook has not yet announced pricing information for the two devices.But Facebook does not intend to direct sales both 6 dof camera, but to the specific business partner authorization x24 and x6 design, plan in the second half of the year to come.