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Filming

Capturing and filming in 360 requires a different set of tools and techniques.

Stitching

Ofttimes the nearly challenging part of creating content is stitching the diverse cameras together to create the full 360 view.

Editing

Traditional editing techniques still apply but require new and creative thinking to put the viewer inside your story.

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Publishing on Facebook

With a simple upload flow, special icons to drive discovery and exciting features and insights to ensure your content reaches and moves the most people, Facebook is the best place to share 360 videos.

Discovery

Every 360 video in News Feed is recognized with the 360 logo and a heading indicator prompting viewers to explore the scene. These features let your followers know there'due south a whole 360 degrees around them to experience.

Tools

Don't allow your followers miss a moment past enabling Guide, a tool to ready points of interest in your 360 video, giving viewers the freedom to take the atomic number 82 or follow your highlights.

Insights

Create ameliorate 360 videos by learning what moments your followers love the nigh with Heatmaps and understanding more about your audition with Video Insights.

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Facebook 360 for Gear VR

An exciting new way to lookout man 360 photos and videos from Facebook in Samsung Gear VR

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360 Photos

Share an immersive view of your world.

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360 Cameras

Here is a sample of some of the latest cameras on the market place for capturing 360 degree video content. They represent a range of options to help everyone from individual people, to creators to large media organizations capture unique moments in 360 degrees and share them with their friends, family unit and fans across Facebook.

VIRB® 360

Garmin

Rugged, Waterproof 360-caste Photographic camera with 5.7K/30fps Resolution and Spherical Stabilization

• 4 congenital-in microphones capture 360-caste spatial audio
• Spherical stabilization, applied in VIRB edit, ensures a smooth video regardless of photographic camera move
• Born sensors provide Grand-Metrix™ data overlays in 360-degree augmented reality
• Like shooting fish in a barrel-to-use, gratuitous VIRB® Mobile app and VIRB® Edit desktop software allow you edit, stabilize, share and add data overlays to videos
• Constantly record for more 1 hour on 1 charge4 — without overheating

• Resolution: 5.7K Resolution / Livestream 4K
• Availability: iPhone and Android (Livestream iOS just)
• Pricing: $799.99 USD

Giroptic IO

Giroptic

The easiest way to go Live in 360 on Facebook

• The companion app lets you lot go live in seconds, run across comments and engage!
• Adaptive streaming technology to broadcast from virtually anywhere
• High-quality twin custom lenses and real-time image processing technology
• High-quality durable aluminum casing and design

• Resolution: Captures beautiful 4K resolution images and enhanced 2K video
• Availability: Giroptic IO for iPhone available now. Android coming soon
• Price: $249 USD

Insta360 Air

Insta360

Built for Alive 360, the Insta360 Nano is a plug-and-play wonder that instantly turns your iPhone into a 360 photographic camera.

• Real-time paradigm stabilization
• Ultra-compact blueprint
• Direct connexion means no hiccups during live-streams
• Ane-touch social sharing for photos and video

• Resolution: 3008 10 1504 (3K)
• Bachelor now for Android
• Price: Insta360 Air (Android): $129 USD

Insta360 Nano

Insta360

Built for Alive 360, the Insta360 Nano is a plug-and-play wonder that instantly turns your iPhone into a 360 camera.

• Existent-time paradigm stabilization
• Ultra-compact design
• Direct connection means no hiccups during live-streams
• One-bear upon social sharing for photos and video

• Resolution: 3040 Ten 1520 (3K)
• Available now for iPhone
• Price: Insta360 Nano (iPhone): $199 USD

Insta360 Pro

Insta360

The Insta360 Pro is an all-in-ane solution for professional VR filmmakers and other exacting creators. It captures truthful 3D VR content in up to 8K, and offers unrivaled ease-of-use and versatility. Whether you're filming a travel documentary or live-streaming a wedding to Facebook, the Pro offers a elementary, intuitive work flow that will let you stay focused on creating.

• 360 and 360 3D stills, video and live-streaming
• Onboard existent-time epitome stitching
• Onboard gyroscopic image stabilization
• Cube map projection and H.265 compression for 60% bandwidth savings
• 100 FPS high-speed shooting
• Control via mobile app, PC or operate standalone
• Time-lapse mode
• Compact, portable and light
• Quick-swap bombardment for prolonged shooting
• Included Insta360 Stitcher software with support for optical flow paradigm stitching

• Resolution:
  • 360 photos – 8K
  • 360 3D photos – 8K
  • 360 video – 8K
  • 360 3D video – 6K
  • 360 live-streaming – 4K
  • 360 3D live-streaming – 4K
• Available at present globally
• Price: $3499 USD

ION360 U

ION360

The totally immersive, ultra portable 4K 360-degree camera for your smartphone.

• Stream 4K Video - Shoot up to 2 hours of 4K 360 video resolution and Live stream your 360 videos to Facebook
• Capture Photos - Capture amazing 7.2MP resolution 360 images to store and view in your photograph albums.
• Battery & Protection - The ION360 U clips to your phone for additional power and protection.

• Resolution: 4K (3840 ten 1920)
• Price: $249. Financing available every bit low as $0 upfront

LG 360 CAM(R105)

LG

LG 360 CAM is a meaty spherical camera that captures the entire 360 space with a unmarried shot and easily connect to the LG G5, helping you to capture life's moments perfectly no matter where yous are.

• 360° and 180° paradigm capture with 1 click
• Dual 13MP wide-angle cameras
• 2K video recording, 16MP spherical image back up
• v.1 channel surround-sound recording
• Supported on Android five.0(L Bone) or later, and iOS eight or afterwards

• Resolution : Max Photo Resolution - 5660 x 2830 (16M), Max. Video Resolution - 2560 x 1280 (30fps)
• Field of View : 206° ten ii (Dual Fisheye Lens)
• Frame / Second : 30
• Cost : $199.99
• Lenses : 2
• Storage : microSD max. 2TB support
• Battery Life : one,200mAh

MOTO 360 Camera

Motorola

Capture, edit, and live stream 360° photos and videos with immersive 3D sound. Share moments in 4K, in real fourth dimension, in every direction.

• 360° photos and 4K video with 3D sound, edit on the get, stream or share.
• Compatible with whatsoever phone in the Moto Z Family unit

• Resolution: 2 x 13MP
• Cost: $299.99 USD
• Available August ten 2017

Nokia Ozo

Nokia

OZO and OZO Live are the industry leading products for professionals to capture and stream the nearly immersive VR experiences.

• Professional-grade 360 image tools with real-time stitching controls, color correction and spatial/temporal denoising
• Alive Spatial Audio
• Flexible outputs with 2d or 3D 360 livestreaming over RTMP or SDI for integration into existing professional workflows
• Simplifies complexity through its intelligent, purpose-congenital for VR Design, single cablevision output, and integrated power and storage
• Enhances creative capabilities and control with game changing features like Existent-time Monitoring in VR and the OZO Remote Web Interface

• OZO Live is bachelor at present. Facebook API integration into the OZO Live interface coming soon
• Cost: Delight visit ozo.nokia.com for pricing and more than info on OZO and OZO Alive

Panono

Panono

Highest resolution 360° photo camera on the market. 108MP still images. 16K ten 8K output. HDR style. Rated "Best for Photographers" by WSJ.

• Resolution: 108 Megapixels, 16K x 8K output resolution
• FOV: 360° x 360°
• Frames per 2d: High resolution stills, no video
• Toll: $1499 USD
• Number of lenses: 36
• Storage: 16GB
• Battery Life: Approximately 150 Images

RICOH THETA Southward

Ricoh Company Ltd

RICOH THETA is a spherical camera that captures the entire 360° space with a unmarried shot. Use a PC or smartphone to take fun with the infinite!

• 1/2.3 12M CMOS sensor X2 (Output pixel count equivalent to 14M)
• Newly developed F2.0 lens
• Total Hd Video capture (30fps,25min continuous shooting)
• Hard disk drive Live streaming
• Live View

• Resolution: 1920x1080
• Field of View: 360°x360°
• Frames/2nd: 30
• Price: $350
• Lenses: 2
• Storage: Internal 8GB
• Bombardment life: Approx 260 photos

SP360 4K

KODAK PIXPRO

Set to have your 360° VR videos full circle with the KODAK PIXPRO SP360 4K VR Cam. Designed to take your artistic vision to the adjacent level, we offer a elementary and flexible solution for total spherical, interactive 360° video, complimentary stitch and editing software and a host of included accessories to apply right out of the box.

• The KODAK PIXPRO SP360 4K VR Camera is geared towards those looking for a new avenue to take their creative vision for 360° interactive video to the next level.
• The SP360 4K's compatibility with 360° video support on YouTube™ and Facebook™ 360° allows content creators to hands upload their 360° VR videos and share their content with billions of people worldwide.
• Capturing and creating your own full 360° spherical VR videos is merely the first. At present with our free PIXPRO 360 Stitch Software for Mac or PC, you tin effortlessly stitch the video from two SP360 4K'due south and create a fully immersive VR video.
• Using the FREE iOS™ or Android™ App, utilise your smart device to give you the flexibility of seeing exactly what you're recording with your SP360 4K. The app volition allow you lot to change the SP360 4K photographic camera settings, toggle between features, modify viewing and recording modes, control, start, stop the photographic camera and much more.
• For further flexibility the SP360 4K VR Photographic camera tin be paired with our RF Remote Command to command multiple SP360 4K Cameras with the button of one push.

• 235° FOV/Ultra Wide 4K Lens*
• Control Wirelessly with iOS(TM) / ANDROID(TM) Smart Device APP
• RF Remote Control (sold separately)
• Micro SD Card (up to 128GB)
• Complimentary PIXPRO Stitch Software & Editing Software
• * 4K refers to 8 million plus pixel resolution at a one:1 aspect ratio

Z CAM S1

Z Cam

With single Ethernet connection to Z CAM S1, Z CAM WonderLive supports true 4K 360 live streaming through a PC. Z CAM S1 is equipped with coordinated AE & AWB to evangelize truly harmonized paradigm quality.

• 4K 360 live streaming
• Single Ethernet Connection

• Resolution: 3840 x 1920
• Available now
• Price: $2,499 USD, Z CAM WonderLive (1080p resolution) is available for free

360FLY 4K Pro

360FLY

With the 360fly 4K Pro Camera continuously shoot and stream immersive 360° 4K video without interruption via dedicated USB and HDMI connectors or over WiFi.

• Fully ruggedized - sealed metal housing and cable extensions (IP67 rated for protection against splash and bravado rain)
• Includes all of 360fly's innovative smart camera and machine learning features

• Price: $799
• Resolution: 4K, 2880 10 2880
• Accepting pre-orders at present. Available in September 2017

A free software suite for designing spatial audio for 360 video and cinematic VR

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360 Creator FAQs

• Getting to know Facebook 360

  What is a 360 video?

  360 videos have been created with a special fix of cameras to record all 360 degrees of a scene simultaneously. This means that when the video is playing, yous can view it from different angles.

  Where tin can I watch 360 videos?

  You lot may see 360 videos in your News Feed if you are using Facebook on the web, Facebook for Android and Facebook for iOS. For the web you need to be using Chrome or FireFox browsers. For Android, yous demand to update your app to the latest version and having a device no older than 2012. For iOS you also need to update your app and be using versions v and in a higher place. To encounter a drove of 360 Videos happening beyond Facebook check out this page.

  Practice all Pages have access to this characteristic?

  Aye, the option to upload 360 videos is available to all Pages.

  Does Facebook support stereoscopic audio or video?

  At the moment, Facebook only supports monoscopic viewing.

  Can I choose to turn off 360 video on Facebook?

  No. All the same, 360 videos volition not auto-play on your mobile device, regardless of your private automobile-play settings

  Will this utilise up a lot of data?

  360 videos are larger than normal video files and may take longer to download because of their size. Today, 360 videos volition autoplay merely on the web and when your phone is connected to Wi-Fi. While you can click to play 360 videos while using mobile information on your device, they will not autoplay.

  You tin learn more than virtually autoplay settings and turn them off hither.

• Getting Started With 360 Video

  How much does it cost to create 360 videos?

  Similar to producing traditional videos, 360 video production varies in price. Ane of the larger added toll with 360 video is in mail product, where stitching multiple camera feeds takes longer than with traditional video.

  What is dynamic streaming? Does this utilise to Facebook or only Oculus?

  Instead of delivering the entire video in high resolution, we only stream the part you're looking at in the highest quality. Doing this lets united states quadruple the resolution and quality, while reducing the amount of bandwidth consumed by 4x. This is just one example of how Facebook is driving VR software forwards.

• Facebook 360 Distribution

  I tried uploading a video but information technology is not working or taking a long time to post?

  360 videos tin be very large, which ways they take extra time to complete the uploading and encoding process. In some cases we accept seen this take a few hours. If yous are still having trouble completing the process after several hours please let u.s.a. know by emailing facebook360@fb.com.

  Volition 360 videos piece of work in Page Insights?

  360 videos currently has the same insights every bit an any other video you would upload to your Page, however we're exploring ways to introduce metrics specific to 360 Video, including a estrus map characteristic.

  Will 360 videos have the public view counter?

  Yeah, 360 videos volition have a public view count.

  Volition content posted onto Facebook be viewable in Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift?

  Yes, if you take a Samsung phone you will see a special logo "Lookout man in VR" on 360 videos in News Feed, letting you know that this video can exist cast to Gear VR or Oculus Rift.

  Can I embed a 360 video?

  Yeah, you can embed a 360 video similar you would any other video on Facebook. On web, people can click and drag with their mouse to alter the perspective of the video. 360 video embeds are not supported on mobile browsers.

  Who tin upload 360 videos?

  Anyone will be able to upload 360 videos provided the video they are uploading contains the metadata necessary for the video to exist recognized as 360 content.

  How exercise I upload a 360 video on my Profile?

  If the video was recorded on a 360 or spherical camera that automatically adds the 360 metadata, then the process will be the same every bit uploading a regular video.

  To determine if your camera and its software automatically add 360 metadata, refer to the photographic camera's manual or the camera maker's website.

  If the 360 video was recored on a photographic camera that doesn't automatically add the 360 metadata, then you'll need to attach 360 metadata for information technology to return correctly. Later the 360 metadata has been added to your video file, follow these directions to add the video to your Timeline.

  How do I upload a 360 video on my Page?

  If the video was recorded on a 360 or spherical camera that automatically adds the 360 metadata, and then the process volition be the aforementioned as uploading a regular video.

  To determine if your camera and its software automatically add 360 metadata, refer to the camera's manual or the camera maker's website.

• Facebook Surround 360

  When will the design blueprint and stitching code be ready?

  Summer 2016. Facebook Surround 360 camera design and stitching software code will be available on GitHub for anyone to contribute to, build on top of, amend or distribute. Assembly will be possible with off-the-shelf components.

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