100-megapixel cameras for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional

Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional

Executives from digital camera firm Canon see a brand new enterprise alternative and potential marketplace for a digital camera system that may create immersive video content material for Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional. At current, nonetheless, none of their cameras can but deal with the decision and refresh charge Apple’s headset requires.

Chatting with digital camera website Petapixel on the CP+ digital camera present in Yokohama, Japan final week, Canon officers imagine they have already got a part of the puzzle — a 5.2mm f/2.8 L lens that’s designed particularly for producing VR content material. The problem is that the corporate would not but have a digital camera with the refresh pace wanted to match the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s high-resolution screens.

A few of the immersive environments Apple has equipped already for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional have transferring parts in them, however are believed to encompass a mixture of computer-generated high-resolution static pictures and what was seemingly an 8K video system from digital camera maker RED.

Different corporations wish to produce a digital camera system that might create pictures capturing real-world environments on the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s decision and refresh charge with out resorting to pc graphics. They foresee market demand for instruments that may rapidly create such environments.

Canon’s Yasuhiko Shiomi believes this is able to require a digital camera able to a “100-megapixel decision at 60 frames per second.” It is the refresh charge that’s presently complicated to get to together with a decision that prime. It will quantity to 14K video, a 3.5 instances enchancment over the present 4K normal.

There does exist one system already on the market that may produce video to those specs — the Sphere in Las Vegas has a “Huge Sky” digital camera which is, in truth, an 18K video system. Nonetheless, it prices hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, and requires 12 individuals to function it, making it impractical for the rising VR manufacturing market.

“In the meanwhile, Canon cannot cater to that degree of a requirement,” Shiomi stated. Nonetheless, Senior Managing Govt Officer and Deputy Head of the Imaging Group at Canon, Go Takura, famous that “technically, theoretically, we will do this.”

“The issue is whether or not we will provide you with the merchandise that may be commercially viable and a value might be reasonably priced sufficient for the shoppers to have the ability to purchase them,” Takura added.

Canon does have already got a sensor able to 100 megapixel decision, however at current it can’t attain the required 60 frames per second.

“We’re sprucing our expertise in order that we will present the excessive decision for the VR functions,” Shiomi stated. “So we’ll proceed attempting to enhance our expertise in order that we will enhance each decision and pace with stability.”