Together with its new Milky way S8 flagship smartphones Samsung has also announced an updated version of its Gear 360 spherical photographic camera. A new blueprint, with some controls moved to the handle, allows for a smaller distance between the 2 8.4MP sensors with F2.2 fisheye lenses and therefore better image stitching results. At the bottom of the handle in that location is now also a standard tripod-mount.

On the video side of things resolution has been upped to 4096 × 2048 video at 24 fps. Still images are notwithstanding captured at a 15MP size. A dedicated app allows for seamless sharing, viewing and editing of your captured content. In add-on the new Gear 360 comes with existent-time content sharing and supports live broadcasting and direct uploading to platforms such as Facebook, YouTube or Samsung VR.

In addition to near contempo Samsung flagship devices the latest edition of the Gear 360 is at present besides uniform with iOS devices including the iPhone 7, iPhone vii Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus and iPhone SE, every bit well as Windows and Mac computers.

Key specifications:

  • Two CMOS eight.four-megapixel fish-centre cameras
  • F2.2 apertures
  • 15MP even so images
  • 4096×2048 video at 24fps
  • microSD card (Up to 256GB)
  • IP53 Certified Dust and Water Resistant