YouTube is adding support for live streaming while using a 360-degree video camera, as well as "immersive audio" features:
For a little over a year now, YouTube creators have had the ability to share 360-degree video content, but those videos didn't offer proper immersive audio formats, and you couldn't do a live stream with a 360-degree camera. As of today, YouTube is offering both of those features, although you can't use both features at the same time.
The company plans to broadcast its first large scale event using this feature this coming weekend at the Coachella music festival. You will be able to watch select artists' performances live during the festival in spherical video.
[...] The spatial audio feature is currently limited to on-demand content. Live-streamed content does not support spatial audio cues. YouTube said that the addition of spatial audio to immersive video content enhances the experience with "depth, distance and intensity all playing a role." The company put together a small playlist of sample videos that have spatial audio enabled, but you'll need an Android device to take advantage of the technology.
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Here's another 360° video camera:
There are quite a few 360-degree cameras on the market now and they cover a range of needs. For professionals and major VR buffs, there's the Samsung 360 Round and for more casual videographers there are a slew of options from companies like Ricoh Theta, Garmin and Samsung. But there's now a growing market for those wanting to shoot high quality 360-degree video and decide later on during editing what images to focus on and what to cut out, minimizing how much effort is required during the actual video-capturing process. For that, there's the GoPro Fusion, the Insta360 and, as of today, the Rylo.
Rylo has two 208-degree wide-angle lenses that capture your entire surroundings in 4K resolution. Its stabilization technology even allows you to carry the camera while shooting and still get a smooth image. To edit your video, plug it into your iPhone and use the companion app to easily find what frames you want to include in your HD video or alternatively, download the whole thing for a fully immersive 360-degree viewing experience. You can then easily post your videos on Instagram, Facebook or share them directly with others.
It will ship with a 16 GB MicroSD card. How is that even remotely enough storage for 360° video?
Also at TechCrunch and CNET.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:22AM
Err... umm... circular/cylindrical or spherical... which one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:25AM
Assume a non-spherical cat suffocating in a vacuum.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:45AM
But is it a quantum vacuum? And if so, does the cat really suffocate if nobody looks?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:35AM
Oh, great. (quoth Sir Robin, of the Round Table at Camelot, on seeing the Bridge of Death.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:45AM
all you need is one anal cam strapped to your boyfriend so you can watch yourself get fucked up the ass
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:11AM
which camera do you recommend?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday April 19 2016, @11:20AM
Facebook.com [soylentnews.org] has built a rather painful one.
(Score: 1) by aiwarrior on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:20AM
The problem is which camera? There are very few cameras that cam livestream 360 video much less compact. And no the Ricoh360 does not work .
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:59AM
I very quickly got into making panoramas that I would display as a regular image, just a low, wide strip. I only have one online, of Burning Man [warplife.com].
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