Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by dougmwne on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:58PM
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Ugh, yeah that's the other strange effect. There's absolutely no sense of speed captured. Maybe due to lack of nearby reference points and no depth perception even though it's POV? The footage is positively boring.
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Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by MivLives on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:11PM
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I suspect part of it that like... contextless footage is boring. I'm going to paraphrase Casey Neistat here:
"No one gives a fuck about my time lapses or drone shots"
Who cares about the random video you took down a mountain, it's fun in the moment and no one can take that away from you. To an external observer though, why should that be interesting?
The lack of speed is one thing, the lack of context is another. They don't know about the ice patch you're watching out for, the sensation you get when you hit the powder just right, or even that you are going 10% faster then normal (sorry I'm a blue square skier and don't really know what goes through the head of people who are actually good).