BRG Sports, the parent company of Giro and Bell Helmets, recently announced a partnership with 360fly, the creator of an innovative wearable camera system that provides a 360-degree field of view. The partnership will lead to the development of a line of helmets incorporating the 360fly camera system.
Pretty fly with its one eye
The 360fly, which resembles a one-eyed golf ball, uses an eight-element, ultra-wide-angle, fish-eye lens to provide a 360-degree field of view from the center of the lens and 240 degrees from side to side.
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If that sounds confusing, think of it like this: when staring at the ceiling, you can move your eye in circle to get a 360 field of view and you can move your eye from side to side to get a roughly 170 degree field of view. Unlike the human eye, the 360fly captures all these perspectives at once.
Since you can't view all these perspectives at once, the user can edit video and select specific points to be the main perspective. Videos uploaded to the 360fly site allow mobile viewers to swipe to view different perspectives. Clicking and dragging the mouse or touchpad will adjust the field of view for computer users.
Click here to give it a try.
Coming soon
Speculation on future applications
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