360fly Action Camera

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The 360fly is an action camera. You wouldn’t know it, since it looks less like a rectangular GoPro or barrel-shaped action camera and more like an oversized golf ball. That’s because it’s a different kind of action camera—in fact, a different kind of camera entirely. The 360fly’s lens is spherical, and points straight up into the air. The camera can capture everything happening around you all at once, the single eye recording everything in its field of view.

 

360fly Action Camera

6/10

https://www.iwearvr.net/collections/insta360/products/insta360-nano-360-nano-vr-camera-dual-lens-for-iphone

 

Wired

Reasonably affordable at $400. Beautiful and innovative design compliments a simple and easy to use interface. Unobtrusive when mounted, and compatible with existing GoPro mounts and accessories. Seamlessly view your videos in VR using Google Cardboard and share your experiences online.

Tired

Novel concept plagued by poor execution. Extremely reduced image quality with no option for exposure control. Struggles in high-contrast environments. VR playback feels unpolished and peripheral while the app itself is prone to occasional crashing.  |  360fly

Stick it on a bicycle helmet and you’ll record everything above and on all sides of the rider—sort of like a fly. (Get it?) It’ll cost you $400 and a trip to Best Buy (where the camera is exclusively sold for the time being), but if you’re the early adopter type, this may just be your next favorite piece of gear.

Once you capture the video on the device, you pipe the footage back to the app on your phone. You can view it like a regular video and just move your phone around to see different parts of the 360-degree capture. Hold the phone in front of you to see straight ahead, then, keeping your phone in front of your face, spin your body around to see behind you. Where the viewer really shines is inside of a Google Cardboard VR viewer. Put the app into VR mode and then as you move your head around, the screen just shows the point of view you’d be looking at if you were actually there inside the scene. It expertly delivers that all too elusive sense of immersion.

It’s also incredibly easy to share the experience online using only your phone. Within the 360fly app, you can edit your clips and publish them to Twitter, Facebook, or even Break.com with a few taps. For deeper sharing, upload your clips to the 360fly website using your computer. The site will automatically generate an embed code for you, so posting the scene to your own blog is as easy as embedding a YouTube clip, only viewers are given the ability to freely scroll through a scene in full 360 degrees, exploring virtually any point of view.

The 360fly website has a ton of cool demo videos showcasing the camera’s capability, everything from stunt bikes to slack lines to space balloons. But I wanted to shoot my own demo videos, and also to give this camera a fair chance at blowing us away in equal measure. So we teamed up with the California Academy of Sciences to get a virtual look inside their stunning Steinhart Aquarium.

 

https://www.iwearvr.net/collections/insta360/products/insta360-nano-360-nano-vr-camera-dual-lens-for-iphone

 

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