Google's New 360 Video Camera

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t's the latest entrant into the ultra-hot 360-video camera space courtesy of Google, and it's called the Yi Halo.
The Halo is the next-generation Jump camera. Jump, you may remember, is Google's platform for 360 video cameras. What makes Jump different from consumer 360 cameras like the Samsung Gear 360 are two things:
The cameras are aimed at pros or semi-pros, combining several cameras in a circular array so the video actually has depth — as opposed to a "flat" video that looks like it's painted on the inside of a sphere.
  1. Jump is actually a camera platform, not a camera itself. Google gives guidance on the camera rig and builds the software for syncing and combining the footage from the individual cameras to create the 360 video
Google announced Jump and unveiled the first Jump camera, the Go Pro Odyssey, almost two years ago. That one combined 16 Go Pro Hero 4 Black cameras in a circular array.
The new Jump similarly has 16 cameras arranged in a circle, but this time out they can shoot at 4K resolution. Plus there's an extra camera, facing up, for a total of 17. With the cameras, the rig weighs less than eight pounds.
While immediately impressive on its surface, there's more here than meets the eye. That's thanks to what Google calls the Jump Assembler — the specialty software that stitches the 17 separate video streams together into one seamless 3D video. The stitching process, which in the past required expensive software and was done manually, is now completely automated.  
"What used to take weeks now takes hours," Amit Singh, VP of business at Google VR, told a group of reporters gathered in Google's San Francisco offices.  
Perhaps feeling the pressure following Facebook's big 360 camera announcement, the x24, Sean Da, CEO of camera manufacturer Yi Technologies, emphasized that the Yi Halo is ready for its debut. 
"This is a commercial product," he explained. "It's ready. This is not a proof of concept."
It is unclear when Facebook's x24 will become available for purchase.

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