Vello Virkhaus’ V Squared Labs takes on some of the biggest jobs around, and has put together 12,000 pixel wide, surround visuals for the Rok Vegas club in Las Vegas. It’s super-gaudy stuff, but I’m guessing the word “subtle” didn’t feature in the brief from this client.

Rok Land
Rok Red
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Aesthetics aside, those demo videos are a great way of showing off surround content. If you’d like your 360 to be a little less commercial, how about this video for Cut Chemist’s “1st Big Break”:


Cut Chemist – 1st Big Break from eyestorm on Vimeo.

They’re going a little bit far calling this “The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens”, but it definitely has other things going for it.

V2 via VJ.TV.

6 responses to “V Squared goes Big and Round: Cylindrical Visuals for Rok Vegas Club”

  1. mj says:

    how big is the actual "projection" space ?
    done with leds?

    here is a link to a videomapping project i did last month http://www.vimeo.com/1505378
    its not 360 but 90 degrees..

  2. Mike D. says:

    That's the coolest thing I've seen and heard all day, 360 or not.

  3. Miguex says:

    yeah I agree, this is very cool, but its not the first video shot in panoramic: http://www.vimeo.com/735173

  4. mj says:

    the interesting thing is not the 360shooting but how to project it.

  5. Jaymis says:

    Miguex – the National Parcs video is the one I was thinking of when I said "They’re going a little bit far calling this 'The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens.'" I'm sure there have been others though.

  6. Miguex says:

    Jaymis:
    I actually remember Vello showing me some stuff he shot for Korn's DVD back in 2002 with the same results, with a custom built 360 camera (consisting on several cameras attached together), I remember a scene of a little girl riding on a tricycle on some spooky house it looked unreal.

    I'm not saying he was the first, but that was the first time I saw something like this.

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