Connecting RICOH THETA Z1 with Unity

[craig]

@biviel

Using my plugin and fisheye and 24FPS it would work for hours in a 26-28°C environment, using SRT.

Does he have access to your plugin?

I believe he’s using stream in a headset. He’ll need to get the frames onto a sphere at some point.

There is a long thread about using Unity to stitch the stream. However, the stitch is not as good as the stitch from the camera.

Tutorial: Live Ricoh Theta S Dual Fish Eye for SteamVR in Unity

I’ve been working on a system for robotic control using the HTC Vive for a few months now. Part of this system involved live streaming 360 feed into a virtual reality headset, which was easier said than done. There are a lot of instructions/tutorials/guides out there but nothing that completely does what I wanted to do, so I figured I would write this up for anybody who wanted to do something similar using SteamVR or other VR API’s in Unity. I’ll update this post when my solution is posted to gi…

@biviel do you know the latency improvement if the camera doesn’t have to stitch to equirectangular?