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# [GoPro goes ‘4D’ with Timeslice](https://www.redsharknews.com/post-vfx/item/3311-gopro-goes-4d-with-timeslice)

 Written by [Mark Ramshaw](https://www.redsharknews.com/author/mark-ramshaw) | Mar 14, 2016 12:00:00 AM

Tim Macmillan and 53 GoPros

**Pioneering bullet time company Timeslice introduces ‘4D’ 360 degree video scanning, with a little help from 53 GoPro cameras.**

People have been building GoPro arrays for almost as long as the company has been manufacturing them, with Google even getting in on the act via a 16-camera setup. Now comes the most ambitious one yet, with 53 individual GoPro Hero3+ Black Edition cameras rigged in a near-encapsulating enclosure and fully synchronised to record video footage in three dimensions, or as its creators call it ‘4D’ capture.

The company responsible for the technology is TimeSlice, a London-based studio founded by Tim Macmillan, an image capture artist whose multi-camera array experiments predate The Matrix and even the Michel Gondry-directed ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ music video. In fact his first custom single-frame/multi-capture rig was demonstrated on BBC television programme Tomorrow’s World way back in 1993.

Development of this new device involved a blend of ‘experimental’ capture technology from GoPro and a mix of Timeslice’s own custom hardware and software. The company plans to add volumetric video capture to its range of multi-cam services. A taste of what can be achieved with the system can be viewed[here](https://skfb.ly/KY9Z), this movable digitally rendered portrait of Macmillan enables the viewer to rotate around and alter the zoom as the ‘video’ replays.

 

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