360-degree camera add-on
Relive Your Ceremony in 360 Degrees
Your wedding is a day to remember, so why not remember it as if you were actually there as a guest?
With a recording of your ceremony in 360 degrees, you can look around you, and see everything at proper scale. Even the sound comes from the right places as you move your head! That way, you don’t just watch your big day on a screen, you can be there again.
This is an example of a ceremony I shot in 360°. Drag within the video to look around. Make sure to click the cog wheel to set the quality at the highest (2160s). The ambisonics audio is only properly supported in Google Chrome, so make sure to use that browser when viewing the video.
How is it recorded?
By combining a state-of-the-art 8K 360° video camera with a special, 4-capsule microphone to capture an ambisonic soundscape, you get a fully immersive recording of your wedding ceremony.
Think of the camera as your eyes, and the microphone as your ears. And where the camera is set up, is from where you can view the ceremony - up, down, left, right, all around you.
The camera uses 2 very wide lenses, that capture an extremely wide-angle video, and these are then stitched together to form the “video globe” that you can look around in.
The microphone uses 4 microphone capsules to record sound from four directions - up, down, left and right. Those four channels are then combined into an ambisonic “audio globe” that you can “hear around” in.
While the video part might seem more obvious, the audio part is worth further explaining. Our ears are great at picking up where a sound is coming from, and we can place it in the world. If you’re in London, you can hear cars coming from the road, and you can point to where the car noise is coming from. That’s what this microphone is able to do - record sound that has direction! So when you look at the video, you can also react to sound and look to where it comes from - because it is where you’d expect it.
Using a compatible viewer, you can then look around in the video, and the video and audio will follow your movement, as if you were looking around yourself. This works especially well in virtual reality with a VR headset.
How can I experience it?
The wedding ceremony recording will be uploaded to YouTube as an unlisted video. This means that it is not publicly viewable, but you have a link to the video that you can also share however you like.
The video will also be sent home to you, together with your regular wedding films, so that you have them all in the highest quality, forever.
On a computer, you can drag the mouse around to look around the video. But the better experience is on a phone, where you can simply move your phone around!
An even better experience is using a virtual reality headset or a VR adapter for your phone, like the Google Cardboard. Now, you can simply move your head around to look around!
A VR headset like the Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro or the Pico will deliver a much better quality experience. You can even load the original video file to the headsets to view them in even better quality than YouTube provides.
If you don’t want to use YouTube, there are special video players that let you watch it in your computer, where you can drag around the mouse to look around. If they support ambisonics, the sound should also move around. There are also phone apps available, but outside of the YouTube and Meta Quest 3 experience, I don’t provide support for any of the other ways of viewing the video.