Notes from meeting
Finishing Plug-in Tutorial
If people want to correct stitching errors when using Ichi Hirota’s Android application or PTGui, @Juantonto wrote a great tutorial of how to use GIMP to correct the stitch line.
Heat when live streaming
Some people have experienced heat-related shutdown of the camera when using the Wireless Live Streaming plug-in. HoloBuilder 360 SiteStream is live streaming using Wi-Fi for long periods of time.
The HoloBuilder 360 SiteStream requires use of the HoloBuilder servers. If people need to get stream to YouTube/Facebook, they can consider the following:
- using a USB cable will reduce the heat
If you want to experiment with Wi-Fi streaming with the camera, you can try to attach heat sinks to the body of the camera or attach a fan if noise is not an issue.
Mudder Black Aluminum Heatsink Cooler Cooling Kit $5.99
In the past, people have created 3D printed models to hold small fans next to the body of the camera (design files for THETA S).
You can also try a normal fan and point it at the camera. A combination of the heatsinks plus a normal fan may reduce the problems.
Community member PC Chow contributed this idea:
Could you place a balloon over the bottom two third of the cam, the battery part, to protect from water, then tie,with rubber band, a miniature freeze pack, something like a bag of frozen pea, to the outside of battery area. You could exchange these freeze pack when needed.
I looked on Amazon and saw these:
Unity Demo
Information on using the THETA with Unity
