Mobius 360 degree system

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has anyone considered using 4 or more Mobius units with the wide angles lens on extension cables? If the lenses were mounted 90 degrees to each other then you would get a reasonable overlap of 10 degrees between camera views which could be stitched together creating a 360 degree video or 360 degree panoramic image. This technique is being developed for the GoPro cameras and the stitching software is readily available.

http://www.kolor.com/images/stories/solutions/360-videos/gallery/kolor-hawker-hunter.html

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Kev
 
I have considered the notion of 4 Mobius units neatly housed in a fan-cooled mesh box in the boot (trunk) of the car. With cables to 4 lens modules, each lens discreetly located in 3-D printed, custom-made housings, which colour-match their surroundings.

Then I realised that the maximum cable length is 8 inches, longer lengths resulting in signal quality degradation.

End of dream!
 
russ331 said:
I have considered the notion of 4 Mobius units neatly housed in a fan-cooled mesh box in the boot (trunk) of the car. With cables to 4 lens modules, each lens discreetly located in 3-D printed, custom-made housings, which colour-match their surroundings.

Then I realised that the maximum cable length is 8 inches, longer lengths resulting in signal quality degradation.

End of dream!
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for a 360 degree system the closer the sensors are to each other the better the registration and it minimises the parallax errors. The quality of the Mobius sensors has me very interested in buying a handful to see what is achievable. I think I will wait for the v2 firmware as auto exposure might be an issue.

regards
Kev
 
The video only showed one camera angle. Did I miss something?

I have often thought about a 360 degree system (with Wi-fi/Sat emergency xmit) in the center-overhead console of my commercial truck. To me, recording 360 video/audio is the only way to go -- especially with the massive political/police instability we are currently encountering. Anything less than 100% proof of an *encounter* is not good enough. Everything I am seeing today leads me to believe our police appear to be consummate liars.
 
You can never have too much cam coverage, but for most of us at some point the money factor forces us to compromise. It doesn't matter who is being recorded, a camera is the ultimate impartial observer and being without bias or prejudice, it's 'testimony' is nearly impossible to argue against successfully.

My work van has large 'spot' mirrors and I've been thinking of moving 2 cams back near the middle so that they overlap and cover the front while 'seeing' these mirrors too. If this worked, I'd have full forward and close-in side views with 2 cams leaving only the immediate rear and high views to the front needing to to be covered. I may play with they once I get a JooVuu.

Phil
 
SawMaster said:
You can never have too much cam coverage, but for most of us at some point the money factor forces us to compromise.
Phil
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I guess the value of video -vs- cost is directly related to the threats we face.

In this previously rural, agricultural area, police have killed an unarmed man earlier this year. No charges at all against the perp. Those same police are actively harassing people. It's interesting that they now have significant numbers of SUV's with dark tinted windows ...... just like the mercs in the middle east. Another tiny little town (pop <1200) located a half-hour away actually has a "mobile command center".

I don't know about where you live in the US, but from where I sit -- We're simply not in Kansas anymore, toto.

I'm definitely going to get a JooVuu when they are released.


 
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Not "Kansas" at all, even in rural Kansas. I am normally in a dozen different 'Police Districts' including the State HP and I have suffered directly from the abhorrent level of their competency in a few of them. In their loss of respect for and their poor attitude toward the 95+% of the good, honest people in our population they are alienating themselves and losing the support of the community whom they are supposed to be serving. And on top of that they are now doing things far beyond the powers allowed in the Constitution. They are destroying themselves and taking some of us with them and that simply must all be stopped. Recording their actions is a good step forward but it also needs legal prosecution to go with it or nothing will change. I do not wish to impede Law Enforcement from removing crime and criminals from our society, but since they will not control themselves then it falls upon us 95+% to do that for them so that we do not all suffer from their wrongs.

Phil
 
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