Facebook teams with RED to build new camera for 3D VR video

Facebook and RED working on a new 'all-in-one' camera that shoots 6DoF for 3D and 360-degree for VR.

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RED might have seen better days with its failed relationship with AMD over the Radeon Pro SSG, but the camera giant has teamed with Facebook on a new "all-in-one" camera.

Facebook teams with RED to build new camera for 3D VR video | TweakTown.com

The new camera sounds impressive, where it offers six degrees of freedom (6DoF) for 3D and 360-degree video capture. RED will team up with Facebook's depth detection technology, while using RED's low-light performance to capture all of the 3D information in the scene, and not just the well-lit ones.

We don't know when this will happen, as RED and Facebook only announced the news without giving a proper date, but we should expect that you'll need a VR headset with 6DoF support. This means that you can't use VR headsets like the Oculus Go, and instead will need proper VR HMDs like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

NEWS SOURCE:engadget.com

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