Giro and Bell Helmet parent company BRG in December announced a partnership with 360fly, the creator of an innovative wearable camera system that provides a 360-degree field of view. Now, Bell has a new helmet, the Super 2R with 360fly, which incorporates the 360-degree 4K camera system and boasts coming features like a crash-avoidance system that can notify riders of dangers outside their range of vision.
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.
Mountain bike helmet one of four 360fly lids
- an "AutoPilot action tracking" system that supposedly allows for easier, rider-centric edits
- a collision-avoidance alert that senses potential dangers outside the rider’s field of vision and alerts the rider
- live streaming of 360-degree video
- an auto-generated highlight reel of the best one to two minutes of video based on what has the most action
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