Readit Newshttps://www.kandaovr.com/Obsidian-Pro
Panoramic photography for VR is on my bucket list although I have a huge list of other projects such as having a reliable camera-to-audience system for stereograms I shoot with another other camera from that company
https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam-ego
Note there are cheap pano cameras too
https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam-3
though my Uni has a resource center for that kind of thing and I can probably talk my way into borrowing one of the better ones.
Stereo panos can be absolutely amazing on a consumer VR headset, I've greatly enjoyed crowd scenes from Paris such as in front of the Louvre and an observation deck on the Eiffel tower.
The 3d economy more fundamentally needs some kind of photo-to-3d technology and that is going to take multiple photographs from different angles, a depth camera helps but in one shot it does not give you the pixels that are only visible on the L or the R channel in a stereogram because of obscuration.
I've got a friend who makes 3-d models using a $265 million camera
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111915448546172624
one thing we've talked about is where to get the missing pixels that aren't in any of the photographs, it's a tougher problem for him as a scientist than it is for me because he can't make stuff up.
Karsh used an 8x10” monorail camera… there were no “delicate rotations of plates of glass”, such cameras don’t use helical focusing, instead a lens with fixed optical glass is moved back and forth using linear movements of either or both of the vertical stanchions.
There also is no “tiny mirror” reflecting anything… while (a very few) 8x10” reflex cameras have been built, they require an 8x10” mirror, and in any case this wasn’t a reflex camera at all. Karsh would have set the rough focus by moving the rear stanchion sufficiently far from the front stanchion to get rough focus at that distance from the film plane with the lens he was using, then he would have achieved fine focus by viewing a ground glass plate slightly larger than the negative set in the rear stanchion, light projected directly through the lens onto that ground glass forming an image flipped both vertically and horizontally from reality (Churchill’s head would have been on the bottom and any text on the cigar would have been flipped left to right)… no mirror of any size was involved. Once focus was set a light tight film back was inserted, replacing the ground glass with a sheet of film at the same distance from the optical center of the lens, hence the same focal distance. The lens’s shutter would then have been closed, a dark slide would have lifted to allow light to strike the film, and then the exposure was ready to be taken whenever Karsh (and Winston) were ready (-ish, in the case of Winston).
Lastly all film negatives, sheet or otherwise, had to be developed in the dark… the thing that made nitrocellulose special was that it really needed to be developed and stored away from flame.
My lowish tech solution to delay (and hopefully prevent!) the onset of T2 is to use a glucose monitor every 2 hours, every day, and create a database of foods with my postprandial blood sugar reaponse at 1.5 and 2 hours. I also keep track of how exercise affects my blood sugar.
Over the last couple years, I have gotten great data on the foods which spike me and the foods which are neutral to my blood glucose.
A lot of foods doctors/the internet tout as "diabetic friendly" (like beans, lentils, corn in any form, brown rice, buckwheat groats, non-granny-smith apples) spike me like crazy. Other foods are totally fine (bananas, snap peas, nuts, steel cut oatmeal, fermented dairy, fish).
Having an autoimmune disorder on top of the prediabetes, I've learned that the only one who cares about my health and longevity is me. My doctors care about my inflammatory markers and nothing else.
They offered it as a data point. I think it's fine form to question it.