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Paired cameras for stereoscopic enhancement

morgaine
morgaine over 12 years ago

Has anyone reported yet their use of two Pi cameras slaved together as a binocular pair and the output being  processed in one of the many ways available for stereoscopy or 3D  imaging?

 

In addition to the above, I was pondering ways to combine such a pair of still images or video streams with those forthcoming CastAR 3D glasses that we were talking about a little while ago, hopefully produced one day by Jeri Ellsworth's Technical Illusions outfit --- HackADay has a brief description of the technology (see Youtube and The Amp Hour for a lot more).

 

Since  the retro-reflective screen happily sends back anything projected at it from each eye's vantage point, it should require no processing at all to view the output from dual cameras in full glorious 3D in CastAR, other than maybe format conversion.  Given the low price of the Pi camera, this is sure to happen the instant the glasses become available.

 

(I  was also wondering how the eye/brain combination would perceive the effect of dramatically increasing the separation between the two cameras when used with CastAR --- that's sure to be interesting, as it will allow parallax to be increased artificially beyond human range.)

 

And going even further, processing the dual images or streams for contrast enhancement or to pick out other desireable visual properties is sure to be of interest in many areas, microscopy being just one.

 

Morgaine.

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    fustini over 12 years ago

    fyi - CastAR is KickStarter closes in 29 hours. the stretch goal is to add gyroscopes:

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system/posts

     

    Woz is a backer now, too!

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    fustini over 12 years ago

    fyi - CastAR is KickStarter closes in 29 hours. the stretch goal is to add gyroscopes:

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system/posts

     

    Woz is a backer now, too!

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    morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to fustini

    Whoops, thanks Drew!  The kickstarter is indeed very good news, and this $1m+ should accelerate work a lot without incurring wholesale slavery to a VC.

     

    With the site in such a mess, I didn't see this update until now, but I'm very glad that castAR's attempt succeeded.  The rewards list for backers has a curious void between $85 and $189, I wonder why that was --- maybe to tempt a few more to join the ranks of those receiving an actual pair of glasses at $189, but I suspect that it had the opposite effect and just cut down the pledge total.

     

    I guess the $189 means that the retail price of a pair of glasses + mat will be $200 + vendor margin.  I'm a bit saddened by that pricing.  Jeri & Co. are going to get only the hardcore gamers on-board in that market slot, given that castAR is an occasional-use peripheral.  Although there are certainly quite a few enthusiasts with large bank balances around, it's not really an attempt to enter the volume market.

     

    With all the troubles we've been having here, I didn't enjoy clicking this castAR link somewhere on the site.  Our periodic lament about the Software Crisis probably needs an update --- I think the downward spiral is accelerating.

     

    Morgaine.

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    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to morgaine

    With all the troubles we've been having here, I didn't enjoy clicking this castAR link somewhere on the site.  Our periodic lament about the Software Crisis probably needs an update --- I think the downward spiral is accelerating.

     

    At Technical Illusions announce their first augmented reality product at Maker Faire 2013: the castAR

    there is a broken link to:

    http://technicalillusions.com/news/

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