When my cousin asked me to build a video booth for his wedding reception I might have gone a step too far…
More details about the project: https://there.oughta.be/a/bullet-time-video-booth
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00:00 Intro
00:20 What is a bullet time video booth?
02:01 The cameras
03:01 Camera arrangement and processing
04:30 The components
05:00 The quarter circle stand
05:25 Mounts
05:54 Power supplies
06:44 USB hubs
07:58 Camera trigger
09:04 Sony a5000 and HDMI grabber
09:24 Big push buttons
10:00 Lights
10:43 Conclusion
11:46 Outro and examples
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Awesome!
What an underrated channel. Fantastic job! The capability of cheap "old junk" tech is awesome.
Great hack with the drum stands!
Amazing. I saw recently someone doing "bullet time" by swinging an insta 360 around their head. Not sure if would work so well at a wedding but might be another option.
Excellent work! What a thoughtful and meaningful gift for your cousin, and a great project. 🙂
I resonate with your concerns on USB, and potentially switching to SBCs with ethernet connections instead. I'm planning for a similar transition with one of my own projects, but that comes with it's own challenges huh! Keep up the great work!
Geile sache! Danke für das video!
Where are those buttons from?
And THIS is why I have the notifications on for you. Great video!
this is just too amazing. sometimes I'm glad i live in this timeline
That is absolutely amazing, dang.
I bet when your cousin asked for a photo both for his wedding, he was not quite expecting this! What an absolutely amazing project with so many smart hidden solutions!
They had something like this setup at the science museum when I was a kid.
This is executed extremely well—what an amazing video, thank you so much for sharing, and I'm glad you were able to relay the pitfalls and learnings so clearly (like upgrading from a Pi 3 to an older Dell laptop so guests didn't have to wait so long). I could see a company building out a more reliable version of this and renting it out for events, it looks great!
Awesome.
Much Love
Wow, this is such a fantastic project. I love hearing about all the long-tail problems these engineering projects run into. What a final result, though!
Brilliant, you are the desired guest at every wedding or party!
Googles NeRF Neural Radiance Fields method should dramatically reduce the number of cameras needed to do this effect.
You can probably get away with 4-5 cameras and still get a smooth artifact free bullet-time effect. And the exact alignment/exposure/whitebalance of cameras doesn't matter either, as long as they all capture approximately the right thing.
Processing is very slow, so you'd still need something else for the preview. Perhaps the "Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstruction" paper, which has published code, and can do a NeRF-like reconstruction in 8 seconds to reasonable fidelity?
Very cool! 🤯
Awesome content! I’m building something similar but for photogrammetry of people for VFX and I faced the same problems! 😅
Freakin' genius!
this is some rock star shit homie good job!
When I saw array of cameras like that, I keep thinking of doing 3D photoscanning with it xD
the effect looks 100% like The Offspring’s „The Kids Aren’t Alright” music video, love it!
Hi nice project, it's always fun to make something for the wedding. Could you tell me where did you get those big buttons?
3:31 Yes it did fool my gullible ass
Yo man are you a fellow Belgian?🎉❤
I love the quality of your videos, especially the 3D work… They are awesome.
For Dev engineers that want to push this project even further: look at the paper 'Real-Time Depth Video-Based Rendering for 6-DoF HMD Navigation and Light Field Displays' (Bonatto 2021), the supplementary material contains the video view synthesis and some results can be found on YouTube and finally.. The free software for view synthesis 😉 RVS (reference view synthesizer) which allow you to recreate any viewpoint out/in-between the cameras for step in and step out motion. you only need to build the cameras setup, but best part.. You need way less cameras for such quality! 4 maybe 🙂
The Matrix didn't invent the technique, it just made it famous. The Rolling Stones did it in their music video for "Like a Rolling Stone" a few years before Matrix came out.
Handy and spectacular..