nowfound

Growth · July 17, 2015

WV

We've Launched a VR Video Camera – Spherical, 4K, 60FPS, Global Shutter

Hi HN, Three of us have conceived, designed, and launched Sphericam 2 on Kickstarter. We're now halfway through the campaign and have raised over $220K with backers paying $1299 and up for a camera that will be shipping in December. Our Pitch: VR is awesome but there's no content. Shooting 360 video currently is a total nightmare. We want to make it easy and fun. Our camera makes "native resolution" in Gear VR or Google Cardboard. This project follows Sphericam 1 which I launched on Kickstarter in late 2012 - we did ok, sold 100 of them, but the tech wasn't there and the market wasn't nearly…

Alternatives

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, Three of us have conceived, designed, and launched Sphericam 2 on Kickstarter. We're now halfway through the campaign and have raised over $220K with backers paying $1299 and up for a camera that will be shipping in December. Our Pitch: VR is awesome but there's no content. Shooting 360 video currently is a total nightmare. We want to make it easy and fun. Our camera makes "native resolution" in Gear VR or Google Cardboard. This project follows Sphericam 1 which I launched on Kickstarter in late 2012 - we did ok, sold 100 of them, but the tech wasn't there and the market wasn't nearly there (Oculus hadn't happened yet). As a hardware startup we are working with lots of constraints, bottlenecks, and pain points around going from prototype to production, but we all have some experience with that. Our next tasks are to ship in December, while scaling our sales model and manufacturing, and of course, keeping the product refreshed as the resolution of VR goes up year after year ;-) Our Kickstarter is here: http://kickstarter.com/projects/1996234044/sphericam-2-the-4k-360o-video-camera-for-virtual-r cheers, Jeffrey Martin

Does the same job

all alternatives →
  • II
    I invented, built, and released a 360º Video Camera.2012 · ▲18

    Greetings, HN! I have created a new kind of 360º video camera with GPS and live streaming capabilities. A device like this has never existed in this form factor or price point before. After launching on Kickstarter, it has gotten coverage in Techcrunch and Boingboing, and received 89% funding in the first 24 hours. I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts about the device, the Kickstarter campaign, and any ways of publicizing the campaign that I might be missing. I'm most interested in hearing anyone thoughts about how the Kickstarter page might be improved to boost conversions, as the clock is…

  • GS
    Gaussian Splat renderer in VR with Unity2024 · youtube.com · ▲21

    I was playing with this for a few weeks over the holiday break. This is one of the GS3D sample scenes running on PCVR at about 65 FPS. I'm sorting on the CPU at the moment, so there are some hitches, but it works! I may publish this as a Unity asset. (I'd love to get it working on Vision Pro, but we'll see.)

  • Lifecast2022 · ▲74

    Convert any VR180 video/photo to 6DOF or Unreal Engine

  • TwoEyes VR 360 Camera2017 · ▲84

    Shoot stunning 3D, 360° or Virtual Reality content.

  • Relativ2018 · ▲189

    Build your own advanced VR headset for $100

  • Gear 3602016 · ▲325

    Capture stunning 360 video for virtual reality, by Samsung

More growth this month

the category →
  • AstraPixels▲267

    ​​A pixel-art solar system at its real current positions.​

    Growth · 29d ago · astrapixels.com

  • WorldMap.lol▲197

    Put your startup on the map. Literally.

    Growth · 13d ago · worldmap.lol

Launched alongside, July 2015

the whole month →