Virtual Reality

    Can Photography Survive in the Metaverse? A Virtual Art Curator Explains

    Can Photography Survive in the Metaverse? A Virtual Art Curator Explains
    Sep 24, 2025 Alex Baker

    Most photographers are used to showing their work in galleries, books, or online portfolios. But what happens when your images are displayed inside a 3D…

    Shooting 3D VR photos with the Canon 5.2mm dual fish eye lens

    Shooting 3D VR photos with the Canon 5.2mm dual fish eye lens
    Dec 13, 2023 Alex Baker

    To make any flat image look 3D, you need to have two images of the same subject taken from slightly different points of view, just like in VR-180 videos. lets see how.

    VR 180 video

    Post-processing a VR 180 video with the Canon R5C and Dual Fisheye lens
    Oct 6, 2023 Alex Baker

    When Canon introduced the 5.2mm dual fish eye lens for shooting VR 180 video, they didn’t just ‘make a new lens.’ They had to develop…

    Amazon’s new tool lets you “try on” shoes remotely with your phone camera
    Jun 14, 2022 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Amazon has launched Virtual Try-On Shoes, a new feature that lets you try footwear remotely and see how it looks on you. Using augmented reality,…

    The weird new Canon RF 5.2mm f/2.8 L dual fisheye lens lets you shoot 3D 180° VR video
    Oct 6, 2021 John Aldred

    So Canon has announced a weird but fascinating new RF 5.2mm f/2.8 fisheye lens for the Canon EOS R mirrorless system. It’s weird (but fascinating)…

    This crazy lens lets you shoot full 360° photos and video with the need for stitching
    May 7, 2021 John Aldred

    Ok, this is pretty impressive and also extremely cool. Industrial and interaction designers, Rob Englert and Meyer Giordano have created a very unique lens for,…

    The new Vuze XR is a 2D 360° camera and 3D 180° camera in one
    Jul 20, 2018 John Aldred

    It looks like 360° cameras and content is starting to evolve. As companies have realised that 180° 3D content is far more useful to viewers…

    The Detu MAX 3D 360 VR camera with AI shoots 8K video and 12K stills
    Jul 11, 2018 John Aldred

    If there’s one thing that’s definitely not going away, it’s 360 VR cameras. And they’ve come a very long way in the last few years….

    DIYP reviews the 5.7K resolution YI 360 VR camera
    Nov 6, 2017 John Aldred

    For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing with the new YI 360 VR camera. I’ve wanted to get my hands on one of…

    TwoEyes VR – the first 3D camera that imitates human eyesight
    Jan 23, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Our eyes work together to see the depth and enable us to get the feeling of space. TwoEyes VR is the first binocular 360° VR 4K…