Facebook unveils 360-degree camera
Social Media giant Facebook unveiled their Surround 360 camera system that can be viewed in virtual reality at their developer conference on Tuesday.
The new Facebook Surround 360 camera can capture footage via 17 cameras and then pull all of the images together via a web-based application.
The idea behind the system, which is huge and features a mix of cameras including fish-eye lenses to create perfectly spherical films tailored to each eye that can be rendered in 4K and 8K and of course viewed in Virtual Reality.
The array of cameras unveiled at the company's developer conference on Tuesday is designed to serve as a reference design. The plans needed to construct an array at home will be open source and the software application capable of taking all of the information from each of the lenses and pulling it all together will be equally free to use.