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| Methane by Tesserect |
Have you ever used a 360 camera ? This is an emerging technology, so i assume you have not used any 360 camera. But have you seen any video shot by a 360 camera. If no then you probably should watch it .
Well !! I assume now you have seen a video of a 360 camera. This technology is now available in india. And for that you should be thanking "Kshitij Marwah" the man behind indian 360 camera and the brain behind Tesserect a Mumbai based tech startup.
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| Kshitij Marwah with Methane |
Kshitij was an average student at IIT- Delhi, where he studied and was third from bottom. Because his mind was not into regular studies. In his last year of his course he got an opportunity to go to Harvard medical school. This experience became a turning point in his life. A semester before he was supposed to graduate, Stanford University offered him a 7-8 month fellowship, which he took up. He got learn a lot about innovation and technology from Harvard and Stanford.Marwah heard about MIT Media Lab, but the impression he got was that it was for nerds.
Following the advice of one of his friends, he applied. He was high up in the mountains in North India when he received an interview call from an MIT professor in early 2011. Marwah was not sure about what he said, but he was accepted.he felt he was finally at home, MIT Media Lab was full of people like him, who did not put a lot of emphasis on academics, including the head of the institution, Joichi Ito, who had dropped out of college. Everybody there wanted to dabble and create new stuff.
He returned back to India, as Head, MIT Media Lab India Initiative, and launched the first design workshop. He returned back to India, as Head, MIT Media Lab India Initiative, and launched the first design workshop. Over a period of five days, they had a mix of engineers, artists, designers who worked on 30 projects One of them Anirudh Sharma, took his project forward and created a new company called Ducere in 2011 to make intelligent/sensorial assistive devices for the visually impaired.Marwah followed up the workshop in Mumbai with a workshop in Delhi and Bangalore.
Marwah, who works with the Camera Culture group headed by Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab has been combining his love for photography, technology and art to come up with new innovations. The one with the most recognition is a new camera design called Light Field Camera technology, which when fitted inside a mobile camera, gives users the ability to capture single-shot 3D photos in high-resolution and also the ability to refocus a shot after it has been taken.
He’s currently in the process of pitching his technology to HTC, Samsung, Apple and big Indian manufacturers, and is also in the process of launching his own company to take it to market.
Tesseract came up with its first 360 camera Methane (pictures above) in October 2015. The startup was founded in year 2013. Startups like Housing.com, Commonfloor, Nestaway, and OYO Rooms are the were the very first customers of Tesseract. All of these companies wanted to create new VR experiences to let potential customers virtually walk through properties, and to capture the images required So, what could be better than Tesserect. Its not going to be cakewalk for kshitij to compete with giants like Oculus, Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR who are already operating in 360 degree camera category
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