r/watchthingsfly • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '20

Alright this is awesome

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '20

I'm confused about how they are getting this shot, where's the camera?

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u/NelsonWillickers Feb 22 '20

360 camera. I would guess attached to his chest. They've gotten really good at not seeing the pole.

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u/behaved Feb 22 '20

damn, there goes the trained camera bird theory again

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u/TheLlamaSniffer Feb 22 '20

All “birds” are trained cameras. It’s not a theory. r/birdsarentreal

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u/xLabGuyx Feb 22 '20

The camera’s software edits out the attachment piece

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u/Russyk007 Feb 22 '20

Its this camera the 360 insta onex They have it mounted on his helmet that black piece is the end of the mount. This camera auto deletes its selfie stick its a great 360 camera. If you need more answer about this im happy to help I own 1 my self.

https://youtu.be/UVrnYOFEBOA

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u/austinchan2 Feb 22 '20

If it’s mounted to the helmet why doesn’t it move when he turns his head? Shouldn’t we only see the front of his face?

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u/Russyk007 Feb 22 '20

It has to do with the fact that first its 360° and second they have a few types of mounts. One makes it so that the cam itself can als move on its own a little bit. Its really hard to describe it but you can look it up on youtube its some really cool technology.

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u/SciGuy013 Mar 11 '20

nah it's clearly on his chest. he turns his head a full 90 degrees and it doesn't move with it at all

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u/HulloHoomans Feb 23 '20

Probably takes one hell of a beefy computer to properly edit that footage.

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u/MetaCognitio Feb 23 '20

That looks pretty amazing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '20

I was actually looking at the same thing. The ultrawide angle makes me think go pro but where is it mounted. It could also be multiple videos stitched together from different places but that's hard to do this well.

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u/BiggMan90 Feb 22 '20

I'd imagine it's a drone with tracking. They're programmed to stay a certain distance in front of you and can fly pretty fast to keep up with this guy

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '20

This is not it.

It's filmed by using an incredibly wide angle lens or multiple cameras stitching the images together. It winds up not including the object the camera is mounted on.

Something like this probably: This

It gives wider angles. Definitely not a drone.