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HDRI Studio
Shoot 360° HDRIs on your iPhone, get a 32-bit EXR
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Shoot 360° HDRIs on your iPhone, get a 32-bit EXR
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Follow 18 or 26 dots and your iPhone shoots RAW exposure brackets; HDRI Studio stitches them into a 360° 32-bit OpenEXR at 4K or 8K. Light Blender, Unreal or Nuke scenes with the real light of any place. No 360 camera, tripod or chrome ball.
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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentGive every agent its own machine. Starts in under a second
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Gianluca, a 3D artist.
I wanted to light my renders with the real light of places I was standing in. The proper way to make an HDRI is a DSLR on a panoramic head, 100+ bracketed photos and an evening of stitching. That's too much when you just want the light of this room, right now.
So HDRI Studio does it with the phone you already have:
Stand in one spot and follow the dots, 18 of them, or 26 in tight spaces
At each dot the ultra-wide camera shoots a RAW bracket, up to 8 exposures
One ground photo at the end helps remove your feet
The server merges, lens-corrects and stitches a 32-bit EXR, 4K or 8K, in about 20 to 30 minutes
The honest limits: it's handheld, so things closer than about 1.5 m can show small seams. A phone can't expose the sun, so it clips; the render restores it when your shadow is clear on the ground. And it's 4K or 8K, not the 16K+ of a pro rig. For lighting and reflections it holds up well.
Free to download with 2 free renders and no account. After that it's $2.99 per 4K render, or Pro at $19.99 a month for 20 credits.
If you light scenes in Blender, Unreal or Nuke, I'd love to hear what would make you shoot your own HDRIs more often.