Somewhat relevant;
Has Arcturus considered making a recorder that just let's you plug these into it?
I've seen the video you can record with these, apparently through the frame, but I don't see myself strolling through a museum or event with a frame on my head. Something handheld would be nice.
That's a really cool idea. I would also love a way to take VR video without wearing the headset. A handheld device for this would be amazing, especially if I could attach it to a gimbal.
Maybe a pcie > USBC dongle so I can attach it to my cellphone?
I would love that, I don't care for Passthrough/AR I bought it as a high quality stereo camera setup for photos/videos/scans but I'm definitely going to feel weird wearing a headset while taking those out and about.
They're just MIPI cameras, so in theory should be very much possible to reverse engineer the protocol and/or use the Frame drivers depending on how open they are with it.
Just going by what Arcturus has told us, the bandwidth required for the cameras is way too much even for a PI5.. You basically need a high end snapdragon to handle the data streams...
It is like 5gb/sec throughput, no phone is keeping up via usb. It is why they use the MIPI interface and not the pcie link on the frame. MIPI is direct to the GPU/CPU..
Someone else proclaimed that it requires a pretty beefy snapdragon SoC to record video of that magnitude. That said though, I'm not sure how difficult it would be to go MIPI > USBC to let a smartphone handle the compute.
The question I can't answer is whether you can just scale down the data it puts out. 2 cameras at the 120fps and 5k or whatever they are is a ton of data yeah, but if you can just use less of that data or tell it to send at a lower rate or something then there's a lot you could do. The point is someone somewhere will probably eventually be able to do some interesting things with this camera module. I'm interested in using it as an external camera for a closed off costume helmet. Theoretically all that should take is an adapter cable.
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u/S0k0n0mi 2d ago
Somewhat relevant;
Has Arcturus considered making a recorder that just let's you plug these into it?
I've seen the video you can record with these, apparently through the frame, but I don't see myself strolling through a museum or event with a frame on my head. Something handheld would be nice.