The Meta One
Glorious Visual Quality
Made for VR creators by VR creators
We’ve shot hundreds of VR films, all over the world, for brands that range from F1 to the Red Cross, Google to Facebook, Audi to the BBC. We were constantly frustrated by the lack of sensible features and quality in 360 cameras. We knew what we needed in our productions and we knew there was nothing like it ou there.
Enter the Meta One, our first camera. Specifically developed for an award winning project with Gustavo Dudamel.
We wanted the best possible sensors aligned with the best possible lenses and a camera that could be used in very tight spaces.
Key Features
Pin sharp lenses
High quality sensors need high quality glass and this is the best you can get, each one of these hand crafted lenses sourced from Entaniya in Japan. 250 degrees of wonderful immersiveness per sensor.
In practical terms, this means capturing more light, using a lower ISO setting, and maintaining excellent sharpness across the entire depth of field.
Also, 250 degrees means a large field of view (FOV), a huge FOV in fact, so there is a massive overlap between the lenses. This not only means people can lean in to the 'stitch lines' and still stitch but that optical flow will work better and the lens can be used in much tighter situations than you may expect with a camera of this size.
Low Parallax
Our unique internal architecture allows us to have the lenses and sensors at as close as possible to their perfect ‘nodal point’ - basically this makes stitching a hell of a lot easier! You'll be surprised at how close you can stitch on the sides. We regularly use this camera on drones and remote dollies.
This is one of the main differences between a Meta Camera and a 'rig' that someone may build from multiple cameras - the camera bodies prevent the sensors getting close - more problems during stitching.
One Stitch Line
The less lenses the better when it comes to stitching 360 footage and you can’t do much better than two lenses!
This also means that you can get incredibly close to your subject on either lens, which is particularly nice for 360 video content.
No Hyperbole
RESOLUTION
The META Camera is 5.5k. We don’t need to sell crazy resolutions that we know won’t even playback on any computer or headset. Rather we have optimised the camera to be the best possible per pixel quality on all screens and HMDs.
Our 5.5k camera looks better than any competitors higher res footage on headsets, online or on mobile. Even if you up res it to 8k it looks better than native 8k competitors.
Footage
THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
Everything on this page is shot on our camera. We’re tired of taking leaps of faith and looking at examples from sun drenched locations that would suit even an action cam. These are real world examples, download the footage, have a stitch, have a play.
Here's a project we shot for Barbour, launching their Autumn, Winter 2021 range. It's highly challenging conditions with the huge dynamic range of the camera needed to capture both the interior and exterior light at once. Also, you'll see the ability of the camera to be graded heavily and for the high end fashion industry. All shot on Log and at 10 bit ProRes.
The above footage is all shot with low-noise mode, at between 2,500 and 10,000 ISO. Some H265 and some ProResHQ. You can download sample footage and the ProRes stitched video below. Remember to work in 'high bitrate' mode, this is 10 bit!
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