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This sort of thing is why I'm excited! That's from the Insta 360 website, showing an older device that let you strap a 360 camera to a drone. It was unreliable, and they quietly dropped the product line, but when you see things like this, you can see what the potential of a well done 360 drone is!
All of the original content was shot in 360 degree video, and then reframed in post processing.
oh hell yeah
360 video is cool. Makes it a lot easier t capture the footage you want. I wonder how they’ll integrate the camera into the frame and the placement. Two separate cams or will it be part of the FPV camera?
If I had to guess, it will have two cameras, one top, one bottom, and it will just dynamically give you a FPV you perspective to fly the drone with. But that's a guess!
Ah you mean the two cameras will both be fpv feed and recording 360 video. That would be wild.
I mean the cameras will be like on the portable insta 360 camera. Two 180 lenses on opposite sides, with software stitching of the two to make them appear as a single 360 view. However, when you hold the camera in your hand, on the preview screen on the device itself, you have a more natural field of view that looks like a more traditional camera view. But all that is is a real time view of a small portion of the 360 sphere, it's not a dedicated lens.
And I imagine the drone will be the same, but the two lenses will look up and down rather than front and back. And the field of view you use to fly the drone, will just be a real time portion of that that imitates a traditional drone piloting camera perspective.
Though I just realised you might have meant something else by FPV. At the moment, FPV view for drones is basically just a large front facing camera, projected in to your face like a large virtual screen. It's not like VR, because there is no peripheral vision or the like. It's just a large virtual screen in front of your face.
But with a 360 view, the FPV experience would change significantly!