{"id":3545,"date":"2016-02-24T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2016-02-23T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T03:37:31","slug":"samsung-intros-a-360o-eyeball-for-photo-vr-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/samsung-intros-a-360o-eyeball-for-photo-vr-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung intros a 360\u00ba eyeball for photo &#038; VR capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2016\/02\/22\/samsung-gear-360-ball-shaped-camera-360-photos-videos\/\">This little beast<\/a> looks pretty interesting, though pricing is TBD:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5k7swlOhYTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I find the 360\u00ba video captures (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MNi-nnEwc9g\">example<\/a>) moderately interesting, but I experience FOMO (fear of missing out, i.e. worrying that I&#8217;m looking in the wrong direction) and slight motion sickness. I\u2019m much more interested capturing sequential spherical photos a la Street View, letting me navigate my travels via hyperlapse &amp; pause to re-explore any spot.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder\u2014could someone craft a wearable rig (hat?) for this kind of camera that would let me set it &amp; forget it during hikes, etc.? Or would that kind of contraption be so dorktastic as to make Google Glass &amp; selfie sticks look like portraits in elegance?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/@rosssheingold\/collections\/360-video?utm_source=Product+Hunt&amp;utm_campaign=abd74e240f-2016_The_Year_of_Virtual_Reality2_21_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2cd7d34185-abd74e240f-121224929\">all the 360\u00ba cams<\/a> now coming onto the market, we\u2019ll find out soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5k7swlOhYTY\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little beast looks pretty interesting, though pricing is TBD: I find the 360\u00ba video captures (example) moderately interesting, but I experience FOMO (fear of missing out, i.e. worrying that I&#8217;m looking in the wrong direction) and slight motion sickness. I\u2019m much more interested capturing sequential spherical photos a la Street View, letting me navigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}