by Goldorak » Mon May 01, 2017 2:37 pm
Goldorak
Mon May 01, 2017 2:37 pm
We've been building our own LF video rigs for years, and have a large business around light stage capture (reflectance fields). Our software can handle and stitch nearly any arrangement of lenses into a volmetric asset you can load in Octane and then render back out as a high quality synthetic LF. The issue is the quality may be very dependendent on how well calibrated the rig is.
In the case of FB, the hardware and rig is designed perfectly, and the software stack for processing is optimized by them (and really good - with tons of FB resources updating it continuously with features and improvements). We're adding their stack to our cloud service for general image->ORBX conversion, which will also cover light stage scan processing (using one of our lightstage rigs or light modules). We may add more general inputs from phones, HMDs, depth sensors, and camera arrays once the FB/LS->ORBX pipeline is done.