14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has just announced the launch of Xperia Studio, an experimental hub where various art projects based on the company's Xperia devices could be brought to more users around the world. One of the projects presented here involved a 360° panoramic video that was shot earlier this year in the Slickrock trails in Moab, Utah.
The entire project was made possible courtesy of photographer and inventor Joergen Geerds, a collaboration with Sony Ericsson, and a number of six Xperia neo devices to shoot the video.
One thing that is certain is that it's no easy task to put together six Xperia neo devices and have them shoot a 360° video for you.
The project posed a series of hardware and software challenges, but Xperia Studio managed to overcome them in collaboration with Joergen and software engineer Daniel Finkler.
Specific info on the matter can be found in the videos embedded above, one of which will show you the impressive setup involving six Xperia neo devices that they managed to put in place.
“To create the video, the team sync’d together six Xperia neo phones and mounted them to the handlebars of a bike,” Sony Ericsson explains in a recent blog post.
“As no cradle existed for that many neo phones, Joergen had to build one from scratch, using an Ultimaker 3D printer.”
Those who who would like to have a look at the said 360° video will have to head over to XperiaStudio.com for that.
In the second video embedded below, you will also learn some more info on the software that brought the project to life.
“Of course, shooting a 360° video using six Xperia phones isn’t a simple job, and that’s where software engineer Daniel Finkler came in,” the said blog post explains.
“Daniel wrote the Android app that allowed the phones to talk to each other and to trigger the video recording.”
