The picayune decoration - sized egg above look like a kitchen timer , but it ’s really a powerful picture camera that immortalize 360 degree television . It ’s rugged like an natural process camera , load with connectivity options , and designed to work out of the boxful without any proprietary kinks .
Giroptic has been in the 360 video game for years , but this is its first consumer television camera , eventually available for preorder after calendar month of teasing . It ’s a Kickstarter , so if you gift ahead of time you’re able to get the camera for $ 250 , half the eventual retail price . As always , Kickstarters come with risks .
The 360cam sport three 185 degree fisheye lens system , which the television camera uses to capture and stitch together a sphere of HD video in real - time . The video is record to MicroSD . It ’s also got built - in Wi - Fi , so you may remotely monitor your television , as well as a Global Positioning System radio which you may use to record the slur where you fritter your wonky spherical imagery .
The 360cam is n’t just little enough to go anywhere ; it ’s almost endlessly various and useful . It’sIPX8waterproof , and Giroptic even designed a clever saddle horse adhesion with light - bulb togs so you could hang the photographic camera in the center of a elbow room — precisely where you ’d want to . ( The 360cam has received tripod mount ribbon , in vitrine you want to take a more traditional route . )
Giroptic exact this is the first 360 HD television camera , but it ’s really just the first to offer such a dressed ego - contained bundle . Ricoh recently took a gamble on a360 - still camera , which was fun but also a pain to use . Giroptic ’s bare , feature - loaded excogitation is much better , and we hope that Kickstarter gets some love so that we ’ll see it in the near future tense . [ Kickstarter ]
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