LucidCam review: Stereoscopic 3D VR creation comes to the masses<article>
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LucidCam ($499; available on
Amazon) addresses one of the issues that prevents wide adoption of virtual reality (VR): VR headsets aren’t hard to find, but VR content creation remains a major barrier.</p><p>LucidCam is a compact, lightweight (8 ounce) stereoscopic 3D VR camera that slides nicely into the palm of your hand, and it promises to boost interest in casual content creation by and for mainstream viewers.</p><p>The unit, whose smooth, stylish exterior sports two front-facing fisheye lenses—like a pair of eyes with peripheral vision—gives you a 180-degree spherical 3D visual field of view (left, right, up, and down) for each lens. It captures both video and still images with a single button and switches modes easily. Both the still and video record at 4K per lens, with video capture at 30 fps.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3215136/virtual-reality/lucidcam-review-stereoscopic-3d-vr-creation-comes-to-the-masses.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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LucidCam review: Stereoscopic 3D VR creation comes to the masses
