While GoPro is developing a compact 360 degree camera for VR, it is also possible to deliver live and appears in the market in 2017

GoPro follows the HERO series, which blew out of the world with action cameras360 degree cameraIt seems that we are developing the development. So farPublished 8K · 360 ° movies taken with "Odyssey" connecting 16 camerasGoPro is doing, but the newly revealed 360 degree camera is a compact VR camera with two sensors in front and behind.

GoPro already made a small VR camera and you can see it now
https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/15/gopro-herovr-camera/

Part of the video captured by the compact VR camera can be checked with the following movie. Although the test of VR distribution was done at the site of the bike race, the name rider of the former year also appeared in the movie.

GoPro: A Day in the Life of a Moto Racing Family - Mamolas Pioneer Live 360 ​​VR - YouTube


The movie starts from the image of the in-vehicle camera of the motorcycle race. It is reflected in the Netherlands in 1985TT Circuit AssenThe start scene of the Motorbike World Championship · Netherlands Grand Prix held at.


The camera is equipped with NSR 500, a Honda GP machine operated by Randy Mamora, "uncapped emperor".


Randy Mamora himself who was manipulating that machine appeared. I took a look back at the time with the actually installed camera in hand, "It was said at that time" brought it from the rocket that went to the moon? "


Camera set through a transparent front screen. Apparently noticeably large equipment is sitting, but at the time it was state of the art. This camera gave us a glimpse of a world where ordinary people can not experience.


Next time, Dakota Mamora, the son of Mamora player, appeared. In the 2016 season, I am participating in the superstock 600 class of the American race series "MotoAmerica".


"I think that it was about 30 years ago that the camera was first installed in the race bike, and the bike now has a 360 degree VR camera installed."


The body of the camera that grew crowded behind the seat. Two infrared camera sensors that capture anteroposterior and posterior are built in the inflated tip.


Mamora parent and child watching VR camera. My father, Randy's son, Dakota who ran the onboard camera for the first time felt something mysterious by running VR cameras for the first time.


In 1985, the on-board camera mounted a camera inside the front screen ... ....


Inside the seat cowl, we sent the video with a built-in RF antenna for transmission.


And, auxiliary machines are mounted on the gasoline tank. The total weight has reached 2.8 kg.


On the other hand, the VR camera installed in 2016 after about 30 years is like this. The video captured by the two sensors enters the camera body built into the seat cowl and is processed and real time delivery of the videoHEROCastWe will deliver it to the outside using two units.


The place has changed and the track "Circuit of the Americas" in Texas, USA.


Dakota participates in the race to be held at the circuit. My father Randy birds and watches.


Dakota pits out ... ...


A test to actually distribute VR was done.


The image captured by the camera looks like this. Of course, during VR playback it will be converted to natural view.


The actual picture is here. The video of the backward view is already delivered in MotoGP etc., but the point that this VR image captures all 360 degrees is very different.


There is also a powerful scene that makes cornering by banking the car body. It is a little worrisome that the connection between the front and rear cameras is conspicuous, but this can be corrected by software.


After that, Dakota is a fall how much. The scene to be shaken off was also included.


I managed to get to the pit somehow ... ...


Machine is in full condition.


Dakota player who was completely depressed. Support for the mental part is very important for riders who have to challenge 100% in the race.


However, in the next race, my father Randy who is the support of the Dakota player can not go to the race because of his work. For Dakota players this should be an unsettling factor.


However, Dakota player who takes down the helmet visor and challenges the race.


At that time, my father Randy checked Dakota's running in the Netherlands on business trip. By sending the video captured by the VR camera to the Netherlands in real time and displaying it on the VR goggle, it creates a situation where it is running with Dakota.


Randy 's VR goggle shows the scenery of a motorbike that Dakota manipulates.


It is possible to feel beside your rival with this close.


As a VR camera, if you move your head, you can see the image that the viewpoint truly is in order to follow.


After the race, Dakota and rival riders who praise each other's good fight.


A small surprise will be sent to Dakota after the race.


Randy who is entering the team office and told what his father Randy was watching from the Netherlands. It seemed surprised at this.


"Randy showing GoRro's VR goggles with GoPro's logo," for two days, I was watching your run. Dakota said "It was a bit of a bitter smile that all the mistakes were seen."


"It was very emotional that he was watching on the back side of the earth, it's amazing to be able to feel things that happened in the bike from all thousands of miles away, all the other at the same time It seems that I was completely surprised by the possibility of VR experience through live distribution.


My father Randy said, "As a child grows, parents have to make their children independent, but that may be useful in such a case," he told a VR experience with a parental perspective watching the children .


This camera has already been introduced on the product page developed by GoPro for specific applications. In the following pages, in addition to the VR camera, there are also a camera attached to a hat such as a professional golfer, a special GoPro embedded in a trophy of the Grammy award and capturing the expression of the winner.

GoPro Custom Solutions
http://customsolutions.gopro.com/

In fact, images taken at the awards ceremony of the Grammy Awards are also released.

Winners GRAMMYcam | 58th GRAMMYs - YouTube


The new VR camera by GoPro is still at the stage of development, it seems that the appearance is still a little earlier. In 2016, GoPro independently developed itDrone with camera, HERO series new work "HERO 5It is rumored that the appearance of VR cameras is also seen as appearing in 2017.