Immersive & Capture · 05 of 09

Aerial & Capture Systems.

When the shot doesn't exist yet, build the rig that gets it. Custom drone and camera-rig engineering — he builds the tools, not just uses them.

7 projects in this discipline

VR Drones
2014–2025 · immersive

VR Drones

Co-developed a custom-built spherical-capture drone with cameras above and below the airframe for a single seamless sphere in one flight.

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Capturing Everest
2016–2018 · immersive

Capturing Everest

Emmy-winning team behind the first complete bottom-to-top VR ascent of Everest. Panogs built the custom cold-weather 360 capture rigs used on location in spring 2016.

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Nakuru Kuru
2017–2018 · immersive

Nakuru Kuru

VR surf documentary retracing surfer John Ritter's South Pacific passage 40 years later — shot across Oregon, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji, funded on Kickstarter, distributed via TIME Inc.'s Life VR — the same distribution ecosystem as Capturing Everest.

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Luxicraft
2022–2023 · video

Luxicraft

Built a 12.5K 360° ProRes backplate library (14 stops dynamic range) for LED-volume virtual production, shot on META 3 Immersive cameras.

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2018 · video

Hunter Noack — In a Landscape

Aerial and cinematic capture for pianist Hunter Noack's "In a Landscape" outdoor concert series, credited on Panogs' own archived portfolio.

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2025 · mixed

DRAX — Immersive Forests

Multi-format capture — gigapixel, 360 video, aerial 360 video, and traditional videography — for DRAX's "Immersive Forests" sustainability film, produced in partnership with UK stitching studio Surround Vision.

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2019–2020 · video

The Ocean Cleanup — Climate Changers

Filmed and stitched aerial sequences for a "Climate Changers" segment featuring Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup — the internationally known ocean-plastic removal nonprofit.

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