Google has come out with a new camera app called the Cardboard Camera, which will let users click pictures which you can enjoy via a VR headset. The new app takes three dimensional panoramas which can be seen via Google Cardboard or a VR headset. The app is now available and is offered in 17 languages. It is available for devices running Android 4.4 (Kitkat) or above.
According to the official blogpost, the VR photos taken via the app are three dimensional panoramas, which offer a slightly different view of the image from each eye to stimulate stereogram. This in turn makes things look near or far. However, it is to be mentioned that the images taken by the camera app are not truly shot in 3D as that would require a dedicated depth camera or sensor. In its place Google has implied a powerful post processing algorithm which does all this heavy lifting, including stitching the image together.
Cardboard Camera turns the smartphone in your pocket into a virtual reality (VR) camera. It’s simple to take a photo: just hold out your phone and move it around you in a circle. Later, when you place your phone inside a Google Cardboard viewer, you'll get to experience something new: a VR photo, says, Carlos Hernandez, Software Engineer, Cardboard Camera
The app can also record sounds from the surrounding environment. All you have to do is open the app and start recording a 360-degree panorama slowing moving in a 360-degree circle. Earlier Google announced the “Photosphere” which also lets users click 360 degree pictures by stitching panoramas. This new Cardboard Camera app is a far more advanced version of that Photosphere mode which only clicked 2D pictures of the surroundings. Photosphere is part of Google Camera app
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