The Jump rig is only part of the puzzle for Google.
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“This is not a mass market consumer product,” admitted Bavor, adding that the target audience of Jump are for now professional videographers, and serious VR enthusiasts. There’s no word on pricing yet, but the 16 cameras alone should set you back at least $3000. And to jumpstart the creation process, Google struck a partnership with GoPro, which will sell the rig, complete with 16 GoPro cameras, some time in the coming months. The specs for Jump will also be made available freely online, available for anyone to take and improve upon. Google is taking the same DIY-friendly approach for Jump, a new camera rig it developed for filmmakers to shoot 360-degree footage. Google’s Jump VR camera rig, complete with 16 GoPro cameras. Anyone not as crafty can opt to buy a cardboard-compatible viewer from a Google partner for around $25 instead.
Google gave away viewers to the audience of the I/O conference, and is offering enthusiasts instructions to build their own viewer online.
The 2015 edition of Cardboard is slightly larger that last year’s version to accommodate ever-growing phones, and also now works with Apple’s iPhone. There’s also a slot to insert one’s own smartphone as the display, just like its predecessor, which was first unveiled at last year’s I/O conference. Cardboard is essentially a brown cardboard box that includes cheap plastic lenses, a single magnetic button. Want to experience virtual reality, Google-style? Then get out the scissors: Google’s plans for VR are still very much in a do-it-yourself spirit, despite a new partnership with GoPro that will make a VR camera rig available to anyone with enough money to buy 16 of the popular action cams.Īt its I/O developer conference, Google introduced the second generation of its Cardboard VR viewer.
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