180°-Freeze video showcases Lumia 800 imaging capabilities

Nokia’s partnership with Burton at the Open Snowboarding Championships have yielded positive results as a team attempted to showcase the imaging capabilities of the Nokia Lumia 800 during the tournament recently. A short film was created using the output from 18 phones which were supported by some rigging to keep them in place and the video was stitched together to create some very unique effects.

The duo, Tony Sajdak and Björn Kummeneje revealed that no special hardware besides the support rigging was needed and that all synchronization was accomplished via software. Tony stated that both of them developed an application that ran simultaneously on all 18 phones to record a short movie of a trampoline jump in a 180-degree bullet-time shot.

One of the challenges the duo faced was to connect all 18 phones and to record a synchronized video over the local WiFi network. After some tweaking, they said that everything went smoothly mainly because of the Windows 7.5 Phone which hastened the process and reduced the head ache. The team worked for 3 days to collect the necessary footage which would be downloaded to a rendering server after every shot.

The pair were pleasantly surprised with the device stating, “we learned a lot about working with the Lumia 800 and how to maximize the performance of the Windows 7.5 Phone OS. But the biggest thing learned was that it’s possible to do really advanced stuff that it was not designed to do, which opens it up for many interesting ideas for new projects.” We have embedded the full video above for your viewing pleasure.