VR360 Carbon V2

The VR360 V2 now comes with Pan-Lock and VR Oblique included!

The VR360 V2camera mount allows you to shoot 360° spherical panorama images. Shooting spherical panorama images has been around for a long time, but shooting them in the air from an RC helicopter is rather new! Until now anyone who wanted to shoot an aerial spherical panorama had to either build their own panorama camera mount or modify other commercially available camera mounts.

 

Spherical 360° panoramas are typically assembled or "stitched" together from between 6-8 images shot in portrait orientation. PTGui is considered the standard software for stitching the images together into an equirectangular image. Then use a program like Pano2VR to convert the equirectangular image into a Flash or QuickTimeVR for web delivery.

Sample of stitched 360° equirectangular panorama from 7 photos

The Vr360 was designed in 3D software to allow us to utilize a very strong and light interlocking modular design concept. It has a fully adjustable camera gimbal to allow the cameras entrance pupil to be placed exactly over the pan axis. An important consideration when shooting spherical panoramas. The roll axis on the VR360 is damped by an oil damper and allows the camera to self level up to about 15° on either side of center. The oil damper travel and damping force are fully adjustable. It is equipped with a programmable 200 oz/in torque pan servo.  The VR360 Carbon V2 has a unique "pan-lock" device to eliminate the effect of the helicopter straining and overdriving the pan servo when spooling up the rotor blades. Once the helicopter is in the air the camera mount is free to turn the in both directions when shooting the panoramas or video. The pan gear ratio is adjustable with optional servo spur gears to allow precisely desired pan rates. The most common cameras used are Nikon D40/40X/60X and Canon 30/40D with 10mm fisheye lenses and the VR360 will accept those camera/lens combinations with no issues.

We now include with the VR360 Carbon V2 a VR Oblique conversion kit that will allow you to convert the VR360 from a panorama mount to a fully functional oblique photo mount. The conversion kit will replace the panorama gimbal with a roll and pitch leveling tilt gimbal. The conversion process involves loosening 3 screws and takes approx. 20 seconds to convert.

Here are some specifications on our VR360 Carbon V2:

2.0mm Carbon Version
for 680-830 class electric helicopters (up to 21lb helicopter weight)

• 475mm wide (at skids) x 310mm tall
• 822 grams - 1.8lb.
• 4 axis adjustable camera gimbal (x,y,z & pan)
• Oil damped, adjustable roll axis
• Double bearing block pan axis w/10mm pan shaft
• Lord Isolated or O-ring/Bungee mounting system
• Adjustable pan gear ratio

The VR360 is mounted to the heli via vertical G10 plates that bolt to the helicopter side frames. The adapter plates incorporates 4 Lord vibration isolators. The adapter plates are NOT included with the VR360. We have mounting options available for the Trex 600, Trex 700, Logo 500/600, Maxi-Joker, Raptor E620 helicopters.  Contact us for other applications.

Some pics below show mounting option on the VR360, not included.