I have always been fascinated by Virtual Reality and believe it is the future...and soon it should replace our TVs at home (hope so!!!). It can be used for gaming, virtual tours and many more exciting applications. We have seen the likes of Oculus, Samsung, Google, Sony Virtual Reality headsets.
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I decided to work on a mobile app which incorporates VR video streaming. Been doing research on the 360° VR cameras and what is available on the market.
Some traditional methods have been multiple (about 16) GoPro's array to take videos in 360° then stitching all the videos together which is a tedious task.
360° Virtual Reality recording cameras
I had a chance to review the following cameras:
Before I can review them lets firstly remember the basics of video resolutions:
Vuze
Some notable features:
Can record 4k video at 30 frames per second
Video rate: 120 Mega bits per second
Wifi
Samsung 360 Gear
Some notable features:
Can record 3840 x 1920 at 30 frames per second
Bluetooth and wifi
Luna
Some notable features:
Can record 4k video at 30 frames per second
Video rate: 1 Mega bit per second
Weight: 150g
And my all time favorite:
Sphericam
Some notable features:
Can record 4k video at 30 frames per second stitched and 60 frames per second unstitched
150 Mega bits per second
Weight: 500 grams
Up to 90 minutes of recording
GPS and also live streaming to the web.