How to take 360 video

After looking at the project “We are Alfred”, I’ve started to look more into the creation of 360 video and how to add a filter to the video so that there is an image that stays in the same viewpoint for the user when they are looking around.

I arranged to use the a 360 camera to see if I would be able to implement it into my simulation. When using it in the workshop it was easy enough to record on and then transfer to a computer. The file opens in both AfterEffects and Premiere so can be easily edited from these. I am doing research into adding effects and content on top of 360 video, it seems easy enough but I must be careful as the video has a fisheye effect on it and for the content to look like it is part of the scene I must distort it in the same way that the camera has distorted the scene.

 

An example of the fisheye style that the 360 video creates