Samsung release 360 VR footage from Teahupoo - video
More toys for boys! Samsung have just released footage of CJ Hobgood at Teahupoo using 'immersive 360 VR'. According to the spiel, the clip is "some of the more arresting images in all of sports."
And if you must know more, the technology is "an unprecedented display of virtual meeting reality, the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition takes you to the dock in Tahiti and inside Teahupo'o."
Just don't forget to toggle le mouse.
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Holy fuckin' hell ... the technology is insane.
Click and hold ya mouse / pointer and move it around. So simple. Full 360 view. CJ's hand (when looking back into the wave) looks a bit weird. I assume he was holding a camera which has since been edited out?
Look out GoPro!
Looks there'll be a more and more players in this space over the coming years as the technology evolves. Mark Mathews did some virtual reality stuff using Triggar 360 Technology last year (at The Right), and I'm sure GoPro are looking into this space too. Wouldn't be surprised to hear that most of the other major manufacturers are working in this space - there's a good list here (although obviously not all waterproof/shockproof).
My favourite? Google Cardboard.
I don;t really get it.
Are you supposed to be wearing some kind of headset?
So you can toggle the image around? Is that it?
Totally underwhelming.
Whats the attraction of virtual reality? To me it still seems like a very bad simulacrum of the real thing.
Gotta move the mouse around for it to work. But yeah, best I can say is 'potential' 'cos the vid is a tad underwhelming.
I don't know, maybe when it's coming out of the sky it'll look good, or if Niccollo Porcella has one next time he goes over the falls at Chopes.
Great for blowing secret spots too having a 360 view of the landscape around the wave, plus you can check to see if the go-proer is picking their nose while getting the barrel shot.
Are human beings that alienated from nature and the World that they have to consume it through a clunky and mediated form of technology?
A technology that is nothing but an anaemic and paltry version of our own sensory systems.
It's got nothing to do with alienation or substitution. I'd love to see this technology taken up by skydivers and others who engage with exotic and dangerous environments - environments where the non-participant can gain an appreciation for that pursuit. Hell, I get my kicks from little beachie barrels, not Teahupoo, but doesn't mean I can't now enjoy a distilled form of that experience.
Who knows - any technology that stars nature and the World at its best could hopefully only increase societal care and conscience about it
Can you really, really appreciate it by watching it through a screen ?
Because to me, this only increases our distance from nature and hence any obligation to show some stewardship of it.
I mean why look after it if your only relationship to it is through a small screen?
The natural world reduced to just another consumable video game.
Sure, I understand that it doesn't come close to complete appreciation - phenomenologically, it is a paltry thing compared to total immersion/being there. I think, though, its erroneous to suggest that a distancing from nature is the only, and automatic, consequence of the generation of such images.
IF it led to a decreased engagement with the world by its viewers - e.g. they couldn't be bothered to surf anymore because they got the same barrel vision at home - then sure, that's a proper distancing.
But if it inspires more folk to learn to surf?
Woah, wo, wo...hang on.
You actually want more people to surf???
I'm having a Manhattan-Project moment...I'll show myself out
FR I've struggled with the idea of VR as well, mainly from an entertainment point of view (why not just go outside and do something cool?)
But thinking about the non-entertainment uses - training and education services to remote areas, "immersive" education, field diagnostics, immersive global events, exploration experiences (amazon/antarctica/space?), others? These may require live-streaming VR but that will come at some point.
Think it is going to have a big impact, as for entertainment which will probably be its number 1 use, I couldn't really care less. Not looking forward to a digital world of every knob broadcasting his trip to Kuta in VR.
I am surprised youtube already has the functionality to toggle the footage though.
Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in french toaster
AT the rise of sounding, perhaps, immature, I laughed at this. A lot!
Thanks oceanmandan
I hear ya buddy, I hear ya.
I hear ya buddy, I hear ya.
and to the skeptics:
Hey, I was blazed by my first time!
I waste a lot of time of the internets, but I saw it here first
Thanks you Swell Guys :)
You're welcome Ocean Man Dan. If dick burn persists use a balm.
anytime stewbags :)
And if you're the same stu that used to write poetic bullshit on the old don site, I take my fedora off to you. If you're not, I'll tip it Indiana Jones style
Keep your fedora on Dan, I posted there but always gave Stuey a wide berth. Had a lot of enthusiasm that bloke.
whats a french toaster?
It makes toast, but in a flamboyant manner. The French Toaster (may include gluten and eggs)
So were you not all blown away by the possibilities? I'm already fat and lazy, now i can get a woody without getting off the couch! :D
Don't think it works on a laptop, did you mean palm?
am I slow or something?...clicking holding, moving around....doesn't do shit.....need windows 8 or something else perhaps?
ahhhh this is why I hate computers....the bane of our modern society.
seemed to work on the faptop (win8) and the media machine (win7) for me. Did you remove dangling organs from the french toaster?
glad i read the comments - bloody impressive technology
I get FR's frustration with the digital disconection in society in general
BUT - as far as I know FR is the only one here thats pulled into a few at Chopes?
Im sire Its no way a substitute for the real thing ---- but it is more engaging for Johnny Cubemonkey than the go pro equivalents ( e.g. I can pan away and avoid the cheesey selfie at the end of the ride that go pros have)
Yes the waves were so so (for chopes)
The potential is interesting - whether it be entertaininment or surf coaching
wow everyone is so negative , i rekon its f@kn bullshit. watch it a fter acuople a hotones fwoa