The company GoPro, which is famous for its action cameras, is not resting on its laurels, as it is diligently expanding its "vehicle fleet". After recently announcing the arrival of their own drones equipped with GoPro camera technology, which is actually just a response to the competition, together with Google they are plowing the field in the field of virtual reality. At the I/O 2015 conference, Google announced the arrival of a platform for sharing virtual reality content in 3D, and the company GoPro will be of great help to it.
GoPro in addition to drones, has also rolled up its sleeves in the field of cameras intended for recording spatial or 360-degree shots, which will be used for devices for virtual reality display. If it smelled like Google to you, you were right. This one is at a recent conference Google I/O 2015 showed a special spatial device, which it consists of 16 GoPro Hero cameras arranged in a circle and s 360-degree field of view.
All are equipped with additional batteries for longer autonomy and breathe as one (perform as a whole), as the device synchronizes the captured scenes of individual cameras, and then processes the recorded content Google Jump. This prepares a 360-degree recording for the owners to enjoy virtual reality glasses such as the Oculus Rift.
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Along with this project, for which Google assures that you will soon be on sale and only among testers, GoPro is running another story in parallel. Namely, he is also dealing with the concept of a holder for cameras in the form of a cube, where is the place for sextet "Heroes", which will give a similar result to the project with Google, with the difference that this system is more compact and can also be mounted on the helmet. It should be available later this year.
System of 16 cameras in action:
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