How are 360 videos created?

Question

I think I understand how they’re recorded using a spherical camera, but how do people make 360 videos with 3D modeled environments and things like that?

In: Technology

Answer 1

One way is to use a [parabolic mirror](https://books.google.com/books?id=Vi-qCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=parabolic+mirror+360). You photograph straight up into a curved mirror which gives you a distorted image with a 360° field of view. Software can then fairly simply undo the distortion. While the horizontal field of view is 360°, this approach can’t see straight up or down; the vertical field of view is only about 100°.