{"id":10355,"date":"2016-06-09T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:12:43","slug":"meet-the-new-360-degree-camera-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/meet-the-new-360-degree-camera-from-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New 360-Degree Camera From Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Only a few weeks following the release of the Facebook-owned Oculus VR headset, the social media giant have\u00a0unveiled a camera capable of shooting 360-degree footage. The camera itself will be built using 14 individual cameras along the rim, a single fisheye camera facing up, and two more pointing down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The camera will come with enough resolution to shoot video in 4K, 6K and even 8K, along with being 3D stereoscopic compatible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10357 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-14-at-10.15.52-AM-1024x503.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-14 at 10.15.52 AM\" width=\"668\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-14-at-10.15.52-AM-1024x503.png 1024w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-14-at-10.15.52-AM-300x147.png 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-14-at-10.15.52-AM-768x377.png 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-14-at-10.15.52-AM.png 1612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Afterwards you&#8217;ll be able to upload the video to various social media platforms using Facebook developed software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Along with the Oculus Rift, it seems Facebook is looking to spearhead VR technology, 360-degree video recording and bringing it all into the world of social sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10902 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/facebook-surround-360-camera.jpg\" alt=\"facebook-surround-360-camera\" width=\"700\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/facebook-surround-360-camera.jpg 852w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/facebook-surround-360-camera-300x164.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/facebook-surround-360-camera-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s worth keeping in mind that Facebook won&#8217;t be launching an actual camera for sale, but will rather be releasing plans on how to build the camera. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The plans are set for release sometime mid-year through GitHub.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few weeks following the release of the Facebook-owned Oculus VR headset, the social media giant have\u00a0unveiled a camera capable of shooting 360-degree footage. The camera itself will be built using 14 individual cameras along the rim, a single fisheye camera facing up, and two more pointing down. The camera will come with enough<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/meet-the-new-360-degree-camera-from-facebook\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[862,863,351,861],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/360-degree-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10903,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions\/10903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}