I Built the Camera for Red Bull Cliff Diving VR — 3D 360 Rig + Cable Drop | Making-Of

In 2022 I built the camera gear for the Red Bull Cliff Diving VR film "Coming Up for Air" (Meta Quest, producer Jonathan Griffith). This is the making-of. The brief: follow the diver from the platform, through the surface and under the water. Stereo 3D, 360°, slow motion, at his speed. No such camera existed, so I built three things: 1. The camera. 19 GoPros in a 3D 360 rig: 16K at 60 fps, 8K at 240 fps for slow motion. It has to hit the water and keep shooting. 2. The cable drop system. A programmable winch: 0 to 135 km/h in a second or two on the test bench, any acceleration profile. It drops the camera at the diver's free-fall speed, then stops it before the water or takes it smoothly under. 3. A light 16K 360 camera with a front stereo pair, 380 g, so a small drone could fly right next to the divers. A big drone that close to an athlete is dangerous. What went wrong: — There was no test site. A bridge in Opole is not a cliff-diving platform, so every real test happened at a competition. — The first camera was printed in plastic. On impact with the water it broke into hundreds of pieces. — In a week I redesigned it in aluminium; engineers from MovieBird in Opole helped with the design and milling. After that the camera survived hundreds of drops. — Once water got into the housing: all 19 cameras came out and were dried with a hairdryer. — Sydney was the last event of the season. In front of the Opera House it finally all worked. On 5 November I'm speaking at Immersive Warsaw about this and other cameras I had to build because they didn't exist: high-speed aerial rigs, extreme macro 3D, weatherproof systems. Talk "The Camera Doesn't Exist Yet", 15:30, Kinoteka, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw. Tickets: https://luma.com/t1ejbflw Programme: https://immersa.app/immersive-warsaw Need a camera that doesn't exist yet, or want to talk about your project? Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/Ff729HqGk... LinkedIn:   / andrii-shramko   Email: zmei116@gmail.com Chapters 0:00 Cliff diving in VR 0:15 Underwater 3D 360 camera rig 0:21 Mostar: first impact test 0:35 Sisikon: rigging upgrade 1:06 Polignano a Mare: first diving shots 1:50 Sydney: last chance 2:51 Mexico: the cenotes 3:30 Sneak peek of the film The gear on my channel: Camera v1, printed plastic (the one that broke):    • Camera Monster! 3d 360 16k 60fps #GoPro10 ...   Camera v2, full metal, 19 GoPros:    • 3d 360 16k 60fps, 12k 120fps, 8k 240fps #S...   Cable drop system:    • 360 Camera Drop System #ShramkoVR Vertical...   Winch speed test, 136 km/h:    • Motor speed test 2 VR Camera Drop System #...   Light 360 camera with a front stereo pair, for drones:    • 3d 12k 60fps 360 10bit log #ShramkoCamera ...   Film trailer, Coming Up for Air VR:    • Coming Up for Air VR | Meta Quest   Footage: Red Bull Cliff Diving. Original video:    • VR Cliff Dive Making-Of   #ShramkoCamera #ShramkoVR #ShramkoDrones