GoPro’s Making Spherical Camera Mounts For VR Video (and Drones Too)

GoPro ’s CEO Nick Woodman has declare that his company is making a new global tv camera mountain which swallows six action cameras in order of magnitude to record video footage for virtual reality experiences . GoPro is also making a drone , which it plans to sell in the first one-half of 2016 .

charter to the stage at Code Conference , reports Verge , Woodman explain that “ when Facebook dropped the gantlet and acquired Oculus , it sent a message that , alright there ’s going to be heavy development and investment in practical reality . ” GoPro ’s response is a spherical camera mount , shown just below , that put up six Hero4 photographic camera .

The photographic camera conquer footage in all instruction , and the TV can then be entwine together using software package made by Kolor , whichGoPro purchase in the beginning this year . The resulting spheric footage could then be view in one of the now many VR headset — Oculus Rift , Google Cardboard , Microsoft HoloLens , take your option — or on World Wide Web services like YouTube 360 . Like this !

There ’s no word of honor on pricing yet , but Woodman claims the the mount will be useable later this twelvemonth . And at any charge per unit , you ’ll need six GoPros , so cost might not be your main concern . ( For what it ’s deserving , our very own Sean Hollister kind ofcalled this promulgation about a calendar month ago . )

Verge also reports thatWoodman explained at the same conference that GoPro plans to found its own quadcopter in the first half of 2016 . He did n’t uncover anything else about the machine , but he did reiterate that GoPro is a “ consumer focussed company ” so it seems likely that it will be at least mistily affordable — perhaps think in the same price bracket at DJI .

Clearly GoPro is making every effort to provide the computer hardware with which adventurous tribe can make increasingly immersive video . At the very least , the YouTube telecasting will be deserving the wait . [ Verge , Verge ]

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