Last week, Las Vegas again hosted the annual National Broadcasters Show (NAB Show). While many of the products and technologies offered at NAB are not of direct interest to the average consumer, the explosion of high-quality tools for filmmakers, videographers and photographers and other industry players make NAB a good place to see industry trends and new product categories. Perhaps most importantly, NAB can provide information on technologies we might expect to develop for consumers and consumer products in a few years.
Take a look at some of the trends and products of NAB 2016 that have caught your attention. VR (virtual reality) was everywhere at NAB, with several conference sessions focused on virtual reality technology for storytelling and content distribution. The latest virtual reality technologies in action was the Virtual and Augmented Reality Pavilion, which showed tool manufacturing companies for each segment of the virtual reality production line, including digital cameras, editing software, and video devices.
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- If you still associate Nokia’s name with mobile phones.
- It’s time to change the way you think.
- The company has made a great effort in virtual reality.
- Doing a great show at NAB with its 360 degree OZO VR spherical camera.
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- The OZO has 8 cameras.
- Each with a 195-degree field of view and a global shutter.
- As well as the ability to capture stereo video for a 3D effect.
- To add realism.
- OZO also has 8 microphones to deliver 360 sound.
- Which is important for creating immersive VR experiences.
Not to be excluded from the extravagance of the virtual reality world, GoPro has introduced its new Omni camera, a cube-shaped cage with six GoPro Hero 4 cameras. While platforms with multiple GoPro cameras are not new to the world of virtual reality, GoPro has built-in useful features to enhance the multi-GoPro setup experience. Most of the time, all Omni cameras are synchronized and act as a single camera. This allows you to configure the settings on a single main camera, which is then synchronized with Similarly, the start or stop of the recording on the main camera is synchronized and all cameras are synchronized during recording, which means that the shutter stays in sync to get a better movie and ensure a subsequent workflow : smooth production.
Although many consumers are still familiar with 4K video technology, the industry is already starting to think about 8K video, with companies like NHK, Canon, Panasonic, Ikegami and Planar displaying cameras and 8K displays.
To put this in some context, none of these companies really expect 8K technology to reach its show in the short term, although this is likely to happen somehow between now and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which seems to be a common goal in the industry. There is a strong interest in acquiring 8K content, for the same reasons that HD content producers would like to record in 4K: additional post-processing options and better HD footage quality. One of the most impressive examples of 8K technology was the Canon 8K prototype To fully appreciate the sharpness of this exhibition, consider that each image in the 8K video has a resolution of just over 35MP, the approximate equivalent of the image resolution of a full-resolution Nikon D810.
Finally, let’s talk about sound. Cameras usually tend to attract a lot more attention, but videographers know that sound can be as important as a good image when capturing a video.
Last year, at NAB 2015, Sennheiser introduced reverse microphones: ClipMic Digital and Digital MKE 2, which connect directly to the lighting port of an iOS device to record high-quality sound, turning iPhones into large, practical recorders. The company followed this line with additional compatible microphones: the digital HandMic, a handheld microphone designed for mobile journalism, and the digital MK 4, a studio microphone.
Sennheiser also introduced the MKE 440 stereo microphone for DSLR. Designed to be mounted on the camera shoe, the MKE 400 offers high-quality stereo recording, unlike mono recording provided by most DSLR microphones, and should be useful when recording an environment. soundscape with a microphone on camera. Important.