Google is building a cinema-grade VR camera with IMAX

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google wants to take VR all the way to Hollywood.

Last year the company launched its platform for creating 360-degree video, called Jump, and since then Hollywood studios have come calling, Google's head of VR, Clay Bavor, said at the Google I/O developer conference on Thursday. He also said Google will be working with IMAX to build a cinema-grade VR camera system.

Bavor didn't reveal any details of the camera or technology, but presumably it would be a step above the GoPro Odyssey, the first Jump camera, which cobbles together 16 individual GoPros within a Google-designed rig. That camera uses Google tech to stitch together all the footage into high-res 360-degree video with depth. Read more...