360 degree camera's

(updated: Jan 11, 2016) This article started out when in 2014 a colleague of mine was looking for a spectacular way to record a workshop, so i searched for throwable camera's that record "360 degrees". I blogged about what i found, and since than i added non-throwable 360 camera's. These camera's are also perfect for use in VR glasses like the Google Cardboard.

(Dutch)Ik zocht voor een collega naar camera's die je in de lucht kunt gooien en dan een 360 graden opname maakt. Ik blogde wat ik vond, en later heb ik dit item aangevuld met 360 niet-gooibare camera's.

I found a nice article about spherical camera's.

Throwables:

- The Bublcam. Functions: Photo, Video 720p/30fps 1080p/15fps, Live streaming.

Retail Price $579 Expected ship date June 2014 Pre-Order now on their website or Follow them on Twitter.

- The Panono. Functions: Photo.

 For updates follow them on Twitter

- The Squito Serveball. Functions: Photo/Video

No shipping date as yet.

Non-throwables:

• Nikon announced this 360 action camera, Key Mission, january 2016
• The Ricoh Theta
• The 360fly
• The Centr is a donut style 360 camera, not throwable (by design), that you can stick on your finger (for instance)
• The Gyroptic 360cam shoots pictures and video in 360 degrees, not throwable (by design), that you can stick on your finger (for instance)
• Project Beyond is a donut style 360 camera that can take pictures, video and stream for VR video from Samsung
• IC Real Tech’s 720-Degree Allie Camera Can Stream Virtual Reality. They have three versions, Pro, Home, and Play
• Geonaut 360 camera, "The virtual reality camera the Oculus Rift was waiting for"
• Red Camera's "Virtual Reality Camera System", is able to "record live video in full surround that will let VR units put you anywhere in the world you want to go"
• Immersive Media‘s Dodeca camera
• Visisonics Realspace Audiovisual Camera
• Sphericam
• The Google Jump/GoPro Odyssey

Interested in having a photo sphere or 360 degrees tour of your/a place, office, business etc? A place to start is the Google trusted photographers list.

Image source: tvvj-blog.