True 5K Per Eye 3D Cinema Capture
5120 x 2880 per eye gives Virtara the clarity, depth, and separation needed for cinematic stereoscopic storytelling.
VR16 Ultra Wide Cinema Format
Virtara is built around the VR16 Ultra Wide format, giving creators a wider, more natural 3D cinema canvas for immersive stories, live events, music videos, travel films, and branded experiences.
Automated 3D Cinema Workflow
Virtara handles the technical work behind stereoscopic production, including crop, alignment, and final mastering, so creators can move from capture to cinema ready 3D playback faster.
Visorix gives creators a complete 3D cinema stack: a stereoscopic 3D camera, automated cinema-ready stitching, and a Virtara playback app where audiences watch immersive films inside a headset. Three pieces, one ecosystem, no rough edges between capture, mastering, and playback.
01 · Camera
From $199
Stereoscopic 3D cinema cameras designed for creators, not studio rigs.
02 · Stitch Software
Auto Stitching
Free Basic tier. Elite and Pro paid for serious workflows.
03 · Virtara App
Beta 2027
Short-form discovery for immersive 3D cinema, inside the headset.
Each product is useful on its own. Together they form a complete creator stack for 3D cinema, from capture through playback, with no jumps between platforms.
01 · What Is 3D Cinema?
Cinematic stereoscopic video, made for big screen 3D playback.
3D cinema is its own category. It is not 360 action footage and it is not flat phone video. The clearest way to think about it is cinema with depth: left and right eye capture, mastered for a large flat 3D cinema screen, and viewed inside a headset or spatial display.
Reference
360 Video
full sphere capture
Viewer pans around the entire scene. Often flat at distance and disorienting in a headset for any length of time. The action camera category. Great for skydiving footage, less so for telling a story.
Reference
Spatial / Phone Video
short stereoscopic clips
Captured from phones. Easy and accessible, but limited depth and a narrow field of view. Fine for quick personal moments, not built for serious headset playback or longer form content.
Visorix Focus
3D Cinema
200 inch flat cinema screen in headset
Designed to feel present, dimensional, and cinematic without wrapping the image around the viewer. Virtara playback presents stereoscopic video on a large 200 inch flat 3D cinema screen inside the headset. This is the experience Visorix is built around end to end.
02 · The Problem
3D cinema creation is broken for everyday creators.
Headsets are getting cheaper. Audiences are growing. But the tools to make high-quality 3D cinema are still expensive, technical, and fragmented across cameras, software, and platforms. If you have ever tried to actually make a stereoscopic 3D video and publish it somewhere people will watch it, you already know.
Hardware
Cameras cost too much
$1K to $10K range
Stereoscopic 3D cameras commonly run from one thousand to ten thousand dollars. Out of reach for normal creators who just want to make immersive video without taking out a small loan.
Software
Stitching is too technical
complex pro tools
Turning two camera streams into clean cinema-ready 3D video means wrestling with complex software no one teaches you to use. The learning curve is the wall most creators bounce off.
Distribution
No native 3D cinema home
nowhere to publish
Even when a creator finishes a 3D cinema video, there is no obvious place to publish or watch it inside a headset. YouTube and TikTok were not built for this.
03 · The Stack
Three products. One ecosystem.
Visorix gives creators what they actually need: an affordable stereoscopic camera, software that stitches automatically, and a Virtara app to watch and discover. Each piece works on its own. Together they form a complete path from shooting to publishing.
01 · Camera
3D Cinema Cameras
starting at $199
Affordable stereoscopic 3D cinema cameras designed for everyday creators. The hardware is the entry point into the ecosystem, not the whole business. MRK77, MRK77-IBIS, and MRK10 all share the same VR16 capture format so footage flows through the same pipeline regardless of which body you shot on.
02 · Stitch Software
Automatic Stitching
Basic free · Elite and Pro paid
Stitch software that takes two camera streams and produces clean cinema-ready 3D video automatically. Works with Visorix cameras and footage from other stereoscopic cameras. Free Basic tier removes the friction. Elite adds faster processing and creator workflow features. Pro adds commercial export, batch processing, and priority queue.
03 · Virtara App
Virtara Cinema App
beta in 2027
TikTok style discovery for immersive 3D cinema. The headset native home where creators publish and viewers find and watch. Built for the headset experience first, not as a side mode of a flat video site. Beta in 2027.
04 · The Workflow
Four steps. No rough edges.
Today 3D cinema creation is a multi tool, multi format, multi platform mess. Visorix collapses it into one path a creator can finish in an afternoon. Shoot, stitch, upload, watch.
STEP 01
Capture
Shoot with your Visorix stereoscopic 3D cinema camera. Same VR16 format across the whole lineup.
STEP 02
Stitch
Software stitches and exports automatically. No manual seam work, no per shot calibration.
STEP 03
Upload
Publish straight to the Virtara app. One destination, headset native, no transcoding gymnastics.
STEP 04
Watch
Viewers discover and watch inside their headset. Built for Quest 3, Quest 2, and Vision Pro playback.
The point is that none of these four steps should require you to learn a different tool, format, or platform. Visorix is the path from shooting your moment to someone else feeling like they were there.
Part Two · Deeper Dive
Why VR16 Ultra-Wide
Every Visorix camera captures in a format we call VR16 Ultra-Wide. Why does that matter to you as a creator? Because the format you shoot on decides how much real detail you keep and how the viewer ends up experiencing your work in the headset. Most immersive cameras use fisheye glass. We do not. Here is why.
VR16
Format Name
95°
Horizontal FOV
16mm
Full Frame Equivalent
16:9
Aspect Ratio
VR16 is named for its equivalence to a 16mm ultra-wide prime lens on a 35mm full frame camera. 95 degrees of horizontal field of view, rectilinear geometry, shot native in 16:9.
Standard Capture Format · Entire Visorix Lineup
MRK77
·
MRK77-IBIS
·
MRK10
Every Visorix camera captures in VR16. Same format across the whole lineup, same Virtara playback stack, same 200 inch flat 3D cinema viewing experience.
05 · The Fisheye Tradeoff
Two ways to fit a round image onto a rectangular sensor. Both lose.
Zoomed In
Full Coverage Fisheye
image circle > sensor
Crop the fisheye image circle so the green sensor area is fully covered. You use every pixel, but the curved edges of the lens view extend past the sensor. Everything at the far left and far right of the scene is thrown away.
sensor used
lens coverage
discarded view
Zoomed Out
Circular / Partial Fisheye
image circle < sensor
Shrink the image circle inside the sensor and the whole lens view is preserved. But now huge swaths of the sensor record nothing but black. On a 48 MP sensor, that can mean tens of millions of pixels doing zero work.
real image
lens circle
dead pixels
The Visorix Choice
VR16 Ultra-Wide
95° HFOV · rectilinear · frame == sensor
Every sensor pixel records scene data. No lateral crop, no black ring, no wasted silicon. You get maximum effective resolution across the full frame and uniform detail edge to edge.
active imaging area
uniform pixel density
~72%
Full Coverage Fisheye
Approximate lateral field of view retained after cropping the image circle to fill a 16:9 sensor. The rest is thrown out.
~42%
Circular Fisheye
Approximate fraction of sensor pixels that actually contain image data. The rest is black border.
100%
VR16 Ultra-Wide
Every pixel on the sensor is carrying scene information. No wasted silicon, no cropped lateral view.
06 · Distortion Residuals
Fisheye projections also stretch pixels unevenly. Detail suffers where it matters most.
Across every fisheye projection model (equidistant, equisolid-angle, orthogonal, stereographic), the usable geometric area inside the frame is smaller than the sensor itself. The red regions below represent residual distortion and sensor area that does not map cleanly to a usable rectilinear image.
Rectilinear
Equidistant
Equisolid
Orthogonal
Stereographic
Green = usable distortion-managed area. Red = residual distortion or unused sensor. Only VR16 rectilinear fills the full frame.
07 · Virtara Playback
A large 200 inch flat 3D cinema screen inside the headset.
VR16 is the capture format. Virtara playback presents that source as stereoscopic SBS video on a large flat cinema screen in the headset. The experience is intentionally not a 180 degree dome or wraparound projection. It is a focused big screen 3D cinema experience built for comfortable viewing, strong framing, and cinematic depth.
Playback Mode
200 Inch Flat 3D Cinema
large planar SBS screen
Virtara presents 3D cinema as a large flat screen in headset space. The viewer gets scale, depth, and comfort without having the image stretched into a dome.
Creative Control
Cinematic Framing
director controlled composition
The image stays framed like cinema. Creators control the shot instead of asking the viewer to look around a wraparound scene. Faces, action, and story stay where they were composed.
Viewer Comfort
Focused 3D Playback
big screen presence without wraparound
A flat cinema canvas keeps the viewing experience familiar and focused while still delivering stereoscopic depth. It is built for longer viewing sessions, not a short novelty clip.
Virtara playback is centered on a large 200 inch flat 3D cinema screen inside the headset. It is not a 180 degree dome experience.
08 · Bottom Line
Three reasons Visorix ships VR16 Ultra-Wide.
Pixel Economy
Every pixel counts
no black borders
Fisheye forces a choice between cropping the scene or wasting sensor real estate. VR16 rectilinear uses 100 percent of the sensor at all times.
Detail Fidelity
Uniform resolution
no center-heavy compression
Fisheye projections compress pixels unevenly across the frame. A rectilinear lens distributes detail uniformly edge to edge, so text, faces, and textures hold up under zoom.
Playback Experience
Big screen 3D
200 inch flat cinema screen
Virtara playback presents VR16 footage on a large 200 inch flat 3D cinema screen inside the headset. The experience keeps the image framed, comfortable, and cinematic instead of stretching it into a 180 degree dome.
Virtara Series Specifications
Virtara MRK77
Accessible 3D Cinema
- Primary RoleHigh Fidelity 3D Cinema
- StabilizationStandard Handheld Support
- Native Input (Per Eye)3840 x 2160 (16:9)
- Side By Side (SBS)7.7K (7680 x 2160) @ 30FPS
- OpticsPrecision Glass (TBD)
- Price$199
Virtara MRK77 IBIS
Stabilized Handheld 3D Cinema
- Primary RoleHandheld 3D Cinema Production
- StabilizationIn Body Image Stabilization
- Native Input (Per Eye)3840 x 2160 (16:9)
- Side By Side (SBS)7.7K (7680 x 2160) @ 30FPS
- OpticsPrecision Glass (TBD)
- PriceTBD
Virtara MRK10
Ultra High Fidelity 3D Cinema
- Primary RolePremium 5K Per Eye 3D Cinema
- StabilizationStandard Handheld Support
- Native Input (Per Eye)5120 x 2880 (16:9)
- Side By Side (SBS)10.2K (10,240 x 2880) @ 30FPS*
- OpticsPremium Cinema Glass (TBD)
- PriceTBD
Technical Notes
VR16 Ultra Wide: VR16 is Visorix's stereoscopic 3D cinema capture format. It uses a highly detailed 90 degree field of view, equivalent to a 16mm ultra wide lens on a 35mm sensor, with rectilinear geometry and efficient use of the full sensor frame.
Shared handheld support: All Virtara models are designed for handheld and tripod based shooting. The MRK77 IBIS adds in body image stabilization for creators who want smoother handheld motion and more flexible run and gun production.
* Super sampled fidelity: The MRK10 captures 10.2K side by side video at 10,240 x 2880. The final video file can be super sampled down to 8192 x 3076 for high density 8K 3D cinema playback and broad headset compatibility.
Community Partners
Why Virtara Exists
My name is Thomas Nichols. I’m a U.S. Army veteran, self-taught product designer, and lifelong tinkerer. After six years in military logistics and procurement, I kept coming back to one thing: building practical tools that solve real problems.
As a creator, I saw firsthand how hard it is to break into VR. Everyone talks about immersive content being the future, but the cameras and workflows are expensive, complicated, and built for studios. Not for normal people. Meanwhile most of us are stuck fighting algorithms on flat 2D platforms for pennies.
Visorix is my answer to that. The flagship product, Virtara turns the phone you already own into a snap-on 180° or 3D cinema VR camera, with on-phone tools to edit and prepare content for VR platforms. The goal is simple: make immersive storytelling accessible while keeping creators in control of their work and their income.
My own journey has been shaped by faith and the mental health struggles I’ve seen around me, so Visorix includes optional faith-informed and motivational features alongside supportive resources for creators’ well-being. None of it is forced. It’s just there for those who want it.
Investing is done through WeFunder using a YC SAFE. This means you are not buying ownership today. If Visorix raises a future priced round, your investment turns into equity then. Investing involves risk.
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