Thanks for hunting us, Tristan!
Hey guys! Thank you for taking the time to check us out :)
Our dream is to develop a collection of physical and virtual tools so everyone can make and enjoy 360 images.
If we can simplify the 360 photo process, we can help others create new ways of blogging, shopping, and searching for products on the internet. 360 photos provide us greater details and offer a new, interactive viewing experience, especially on the smartphone.
360 photography is usually an expensive, difficult process with most professional equipment costing thousands of dollars. We learned this ourselves and tried to use existing budget alternatives for 360 photography, but the results were not good.
Because of this problem, we developed the Foldio360, so anyone can create high quality 360 images using just a smartphone and light box.
Please check out our kickstarter for more info on the Foldio360. We would love your questions and feedback on our project!
Thanks!
@andrewgogo83 my pleasure, Andrew. One question I have is what to do if the products I have are too large, or more specifically when is a product too large for Foldio360?
@writerpollock The Foldio360 diameter is 10"(25cm). It can cover the normal size subjects like DLSR, headphone and etc. But this is our first version of the Foldio360. We have a plan to create the bigger version turntable that will cover men's shoes in the future.
@andrewgogo83 First of all, great name :)
Do you have plans for larger scale version of Foldio360? Like maybe perhaps for human models?
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@andrewgogo83 Great product that democratizes 360 photo creation. Hope it will be successful. Are you up for an interview for our blog?
On a side note, we run a Slack group for visual startup founders and Foldio360 would make a great addition. Let me know if you want me to sent you an invite (need an e-mail address for that)!
Have you considered adding a SFM implementation to create the 3D mesh from the images? There are plenty of applications that do that like 123D catch, but with your unique hardware profile it would likely result in better scans.
Cool product.
@andrewkemendo Great idea, and that's definitely where we hope to go with this. If you check out the kickstarter page, you'll see we're developing 360 Online – which is cloud based library for 360 photos and eventually 3D images. We're taking a more focused, blogger/online seller approach with the images – but hopefully in a year there'll be greater consumer application for the 3D scans. Thanks for the q!!
@andrewkemendo That's right, this time we focused on 360 images, but we have a plan to generate 3D files in the near future. Also, we hope to offer various options to adapt our product for hardware use case – for example, offering a laser scanning module would be great. And for software improvements, we can estimate and create 3D objects using many combined photos. thanks!
@joannejrr Great question! Right now, we hope to empower bloggers and sellers with the tools to post and embed their content on as many existing platforms as possible. This will be done with our 360 Online platform, which is a free hosting service users can use to embed their 360 images on almost any website or shopping platform. We want to make happy content creators, so that will guide our future steps.
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This is a nice tech. Good tool to add 360 product image for e-commerce selling! I am gonna try this and post some update here.
Foldio360 is an awesome, super convenient smart turntable to create 360º rotatable images for your blog, store, or website. It's definitely an ecommerce site's best friend.
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this is awesome! Nice work on the campaign thus far. I have some eBay friends that would love this - ill pass it along
Need to use this for personal items - like collections of shot glasses, etc.. and post those online ... been looking for something like this - nice stuff!
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