Insta360's flagship machine TITAN and Shenzhen Arashi Vision founder JK, Liu Jingkang.
Insta360 Titan finally started shipping
The Arashi Vision in Shenzhen, China, is an integrated VR camera "INSTA360 TITAN" for a professional VR camera that allows you to shoot 360 ° 360 ° 360 ° 360 ° 360 ° video at a maximum of 11K 2D (10560 × 5280, 30fps).The shipment started at the end of June.It will be a new flagship machine for the company's professional shermer model.The price is 1,880,000 yen including tax.
Nine SD card slots
Equipped with eight Micro Four Thirds image sensors, the largest integrated VR camera.Compared to the company's professional planning PRO2 released last year, the number of lenses is 6 (200 ° F2)..4) to 8 (200 ° F3).It became 2 fisheye).This is the arrangement of parallax that increases the quality of the 3D stitch and the stereoscopic view naturally.
Storage is a specification that records data on nine SD cards.There is no upper limit on the capacity of the SD card used, but it must be compatible with the V30 video speed class.The maximum bit rate for each lens is 180Mbps.The image quality and dynamic range have been improved, and the color depth to be handled has increased from 8 bits to 10 bits, and even in low -light situations, there is little noise, enabling rich gradation.
In order to produce high -quality live -action VR content such as so -called cinematic VR so far, multiple mirrorless machines and cinema cameras have a fisheye lens for panoramas, and it is retained in all directions with a rig.It was a common theory to shoot with equipment.However, the trouble of handling equipment and the problem of synchronization was a heavy burden on the photographer.With the appearance of TITAN, it can be said that the integrated VR camera has finally reached the phase that can be called cinematic quality.
INSTA360 Japan Strategic Partner / Representative Agency President Naotaka Fujii of Hakosco Co., Ltd.
同製品を取り扱うINSTA360 Japan Strategic Partner / Representative Agency President Naotaka Fujii of Hakosco Co., Ltd.によれば、「価格はPro2の3倍だが、得られる情報量はそれ以上」とのこと。
The size is from 143 mm to 228 mm, and the weight has been up from 1,550g to 5,500 g, so a stable stand with plenty of load capacity is required.However, it is good that the basic operability and usability are the same as Pro2.
Functions such as the power shake reduction flow state, which is the strength of the Insta360, and the Furesite that enables remotely operation and previews, are also implemented in Titan.Hand -held shooting is hard to imagine, so in fact you will use a jib -arm, crane, slider, etc. when shooting.
専⽤ステッチソフトのInsta360 Stitcherに、TITANの11K 2Dや10K3Dの素材を読み込んでみた※画像をクリックすると拡大しますUpdated stitcher 3.0.0 items of "Optical Flow Stitching Range" and "Template Stitching Range" newly added to Beta
The 11k material taken with Titan can be handled by Adobe Premiere Pro, and a no -stitch editing (stitched extension plugin) can be used.In addition, 3D live distribution of 4K (3840 x 3840 30fps) is possible (at the same time can record 8K 3D videos).There are four microphones and support Ambisonix.
By the way, the TITAN manual has an optical flow stitch's safety distance of 80cm, but according to JK, 3D shooting is recommended.In the fanless mode, PRO2 operates for 10 to 15 minutes, and TITAN operates for about 5 to 7 minutes.
This year, at the NAB SHOW's Insta360 booth, I watch a high -resolution footage in Gearvr
The writer watches Titan's footage down to 4K with Oculus Rift S.Because the original data is good, 4K is displayed much sharper than before.
The problem is the viewing environment for regenerating ultra -high resolution videos, but if you use the company's unique crystal view technology, you can smoothly play 11k or 10K 360 ° video when watching with VR goggles.It will be possible.
In that case, using the bundled software stitcher to convert the video into a CyrstalView format (compression format called VRB), imported on Android and iOS, and an iNSTA360 Player that operates on Gearvr.Then watch (in the case of OculusGo, you can play resolution of 8k or less).Smartphone Device recommended smartphones equipped with Snapdragon 845 or higher CPUs, and Arashi Vison recommended Galaxy S9+Gearvr, but from the author, iPhoneX has a smoother impression.rice field.
Images are generally clearly expressed, and the characters on the distant signs are clear.The three -dimensional effect in 3D can be felt naturally.The live -action VR video was one step in reality, and I felt it was the moment I approached.
Cooperation: Hakosco Co., Ltd.
JK who has recently retired from ARASHI VISION CEO
In July, the company's founder JK, Liu Jingkang, came to Shenzhen.At that time, an exclusive interview was realized after a reporter briefing held at Hakosco's office in Harajuku.About TITAN, which has just begun to ship.And the secret story of product development and the future of the company.He recently talked about the reason why he retired from the company.
Shipping started at the end of June, but it is generally popular.I think there is room to improve the sound of the fan.
It's Europe and Japan.Next is the United States.China is about to come.
The concept had been a long time ago, but specifically, we started preparing in earnest in January of last year, and various details actually started working in March last year.For the first time to create a VR camera equipped with a Micro Four Thirds image sensor, we have been working on lenses since the third season of 2017.
This Titan project had several major fixes.There were two major changes, one of which is about storage.Initially, the recorded data was to be recorded on one SSD, but in fact, the processing performance of the hardware bit band could not catch up, so running as it was, causing a big risk.
Therefore, we adopted a method that uses nine SD cards.The other point was that I wanted to make the lens a replacement, but it was stopped because it was difficult for users to adjust the focus on their own.In addition, I did various tuning and settled on the final form.
At first it took a lot of time on the lens part.After solving it, I changed it to nine SD cards, but it didn't take much time.The next difficult thing was changed to a new chip.The image processing system called ISP (Image Signal Processing) has changed due to the image sensor of Micro Four Thirds.I tried various improvements until the end.
If you use a full -size image sensor, you can create a 360 ° camera with four lenses, but it is quite difficult to try to establish a stereoscopic.The housing will be very large.
For now, there is no such plan.
JK talking about Titan
Some ONE-X and EVO users have professional shermers.These professional recording mode realizes a higher quality work.
Pro, Pro2 and Titan are equipped with four microphones, respectively, to support Ambisonix.We believe that the function of spatial audio is important, but at the moment there are no specific plans.
320名以上です。その中で、R&D（研究開発部門）が、180名ほどになりますね。
I want to concentrate on product technology development and design.I want to enhance the competitiveness of the company's core by leaving other jobs to more appropriate people.
Every year, we will release products beyond imagination in the target market.And No. in the 360 ° camera market.Maintain 1 and become a major player in the action camera area in the next two years.There are these three goals.
And we always want to record our lives and share more conveniently, and we will continue to do our best in this direction.I would like to do our best to provide creative products and warm services.
Feedback from Japanese users is important for our study and progress.I will continue to work hard to provide many Japanese users with more convenient and more convenient pre -sales services and after -sales services.
As the integrated VR camera penetrates the general household and the user's use time increases, the consumer VR camera will be a new home camera.In the VR area for professionals, it is a short focus lens in the lens attribute, so it is suitable for representing the scene, but it is not suitable for detailed details.We look forward to the birth of a new creative method in which a flat video and live -action VR bind.
The smartphone application "Smart Editing", which can be edited and export as one video of multiple 360 ° images and VR180 3D videos at once, will be released soon.
The company has three missions: "360 ° Camera convenient", "future of action cameras", and "Easy to shoot VR shooting".Even if the 360 ° video and the 3D video of VR180 are mixed, we plan to release a smartphone app “Smart Editing” that can be exported as one video by simple operation.
Insta360 has also developed a stitcher (stitching software) up to the third generation so far, but in the future it realizes a "fourth generation" stitch that recognizes people and objects by AI and respects the contours.In order to do so, the company is conducting research and development of next -generation stitch algorithms.If this is realized, it will be more efficient and close to perfect stitching.
JK (left), founder of Arashi Vision, and new president Leon Liu (right)
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