1. 360 Video On Android Tony Constantinides CEO Constant Innovations Inc
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December 6th,2016

2. 360 Video The player is free on Android courtesy of Facebook
Marking your videos as 360 aware is done by a custom app downloaded from youtube.com at under “Prepare for upload”
4K 360 videos are very new
Both Google and Facebook have invested heavily in 360 video
Youtube.com standard Android video player and the Chrome browser support 360 video out of the box.

3. What is 360 video or Spherical video
Is monoscopic as opposed to stereoscopic so its not the same as VR content.
Its biggest advantage is that it can be shot in much higher resolution that stereoscopic content
VR content should be shot with 2 Fish Eye lens pointing in the same direction at all time(one for each eye). VR content is 3D, 360 video are NOT true 3D
Standard 360 video is just a flat equirectangular video displayed on a sphere. There is no depth information between foreground and background. People do not care, the footage still looks great!

4. Let watch some 360 Video on Android!
I use the Facebook Android code at
I plan to go further and allow you to add images on top of the 360 video for further customization
It uses OpenGL rendering threads and custom programmer OpenGL shaders

5. Going DRY
You can build your own 360 cam by using smartphone cams and add on fish eye/ wide angle lens
This only solve the capture phase, you still need to stitch the video together with a commercial solution.
I use a $20 tripod, a $9 smart phone clamp adapter, and a $20 clip on lens for each smartphone.
I then use a remote control mobile software (Remote Shot) on Android to control one of the cams on the tripod. You need 2 smartphones to control the 2 smartphones on the tripod.

6. 360 video options
Buy a hardware/software solution which usually consist of multiple cams with fisheye lens and custom software that stitches them together.
Solution range from $200 to ten of thousands
4K 360 video are must more immersive
The low end solution are your best bet for non-professional solutions

7. Parts – LS-PRO $19

8. Amazon Basics Lightweight Tripod with Bag- $20

9. Parts –Cell Phone Tripod Adapter- $9
Vastar Universal Smartphone Tripod Adapter Cell Phone Holder Mount Adapter,

10. Use your existing smartphones cams. I use Nexus phones as Android dev

11. Video Stitching software
– Use Mac or Windows software called 360fly Director
You should eventually buy a 360fly cam to be strictly legal, I recommend them highly! Their products are head and shoulders above the rest
Their Android software keep crashing on Android so wait for the update

12. Remote Control Android Software
Needed to remotely control the cameras on the tripod.
Use Bluetooth or WIFI direct to control the cameras
I use yet another android phone to control the software.
The software is free on the Google Play store called “Remote Shot”. It released by a Japanese dev but the controls are in English

13. Use Custom Hardware/software solutions
I review many in the slides ahead
Keep in mind some only do capture, some have free viewers but no editing, and some provide free desktop editing/stitching video software
As the price goes up, you tend to get more camera views and better software stitching software
Some try to be Action Cams and be tough and even waterproof down to 120 feet but since you doing 360 video for fun this is probably worthless features.

14. Low end solutions- LG 360

15. LG 360
Cheap $200
You get a small device with 2 cams that capture 360 video which must be sent directly to youtube.com before you can view it
Just really a capture solution not an end to end solution
Its cute and its better than custom rigs

16. ALLie Cam

17. ALLie cam - Its $220 at BHPhotoVideo. Its listed as a Security Cam
Consist of mm Fish Eyes lens that shoot with a 8 Megapixel cam at up to 20 frames a second
Records and playback with a cloud streaming subscription
Can Pan and Zoom
Is directly support by Google Youtube meta data

18. Kodak PIXPRO SP360 Action Cam

19. Kodak PixPro SP360 4K Action Cam
Is $230 on Amazon
Included powerful windows and Mac based editing and stitch software
Supports 1080p
Splash, drop and dust resistant
16MP sensor and NFC and Wifi remote support

20. Richoh Theta S

21. Ricoh Theta S Is $338 Can take 1080p video and 5.1 audio
Can send photo spheres directly to Google Street View App
Contains a small SD recording storage
Is directly support by Google Youtube.com meta data

22. Samsung Gear 360

23. Samsung Gear 360 Its about $300
You should have a Samsung phone to unlock the usability of the cam
If you want to edit you need a beefy Windows machine only
Support almost 4K resolution (3840 x 1920p)
Has great lens and is dust and water resistant
First choice as an Android dev and it looks creepy which make it a fun product to show off.

24. 360fly 360 4K cam

25. 360fly 360 Cam Is $433 on Amazon, has a $299 1080p version
Dustproof, shockproof and water resistant to 120 feet
Supports 2880 by 2880 resolution, 1504 by 1504 for the HD version
Android and IPhone software and Windows and Mac desktop software
Has VR headset, Tripod Grip and Helmet accessories
Max video size is 2 GB, has one huge lens

26. GIROPTIC 360Cam

27. GIROPTIC 360cam Its $499 made in San Francisco
You can buy accessories, ethernet adapter, battery, monopod
Contains 3 Lens so shoots down as well as side by side
Its water proof, support 2K video recording and 4K stills
Has no editing software, Use Youtube and Facebook to show the video
Very cool looking and very expensive

28. Nikon KeyMission 360

29. Nikon KeyMission 360 $499 Not well received and reviewed
Built in wifi and bluetooth
Waterproof down to 98 feet, shockproof and dustproof. Built like a tank
30 Megapixel camera
2 ½.3 inch 21-megapixel CMOS sensors
Support 4K at 24 frames a second

30. BUBLCAM

31. BUBLCAM Expensive $799 currently sold out
End to end solution, mobile app to view content, Cloud platform to share
MP video 14MP photos
Supports up to 32GB SD cards
Has 4 Cams supports 1440p at 15 frames or 1080p at 30 fps
Is incredible small, comes with WIFI mobile software

32. High end Commercial solutions
Facebook has a references design that includes 17 cams each with 2048x2048 resolution at 41 megapixels total and transmits at 30 gigabits per second.
Estimated cost is 30K

33. Facebook 360 Cam

34. GOPro 360 array Has 16 cams of GoPro Hero 5 cams
Software stitching is free
Design to be rented out

35. GoPro 360 Array

36. GoPro Omni Cost $4999 Contains 6 GoPro cams
Professional Kolor video stitching software
Supports capture, edit and distribution process (end to end)
Can broadcast in real time mode

37. GoPro Omni

38. Commercial Video Stitching 360 software
Video Stich Studio currently version 2.2. License is $299 (Windows version crashes on my machine with 6, 15 second 4K clips)
Kolor AutoPano Video stitching software 490
Euros (recommended)

39. Suggestions
Try and shoot in 4K as that the future. You going to need a powerful machine to edit it.
If you shoot in 1080p you could edit it on a tablet.
Do not try and cover 360 degrees , is good enough for non-commercial use.
If you want to be really cheap, just slowly rotate a smartphone on a tripod in a 360 manner. This works but pan very slowly to not ruin the fake 360 support.

40. Hope you had fun! Go forth and create 360 video!
Consider using free open source video stitching software
Remember this presentation is about non-commercial 360 video solutions
I hope you learn something!