Remember when GoPro bought Kolor, a French VR device developer, a year ago, and the purpose of their acquisition has now been reached. On August 10th, GoPro announced that their OmniVision VR camera Omni will be officially launched on August 17th and begin to be accepted on that day. The full version is priced at US$5,000, which is more than US$2,000 more than the HoloLens Developer Edition and is better than Nokia’s OZO. It is 55,000 dollars cheaper. You should know that the National Bank version of the OZO camera was not ready for release until August 18.
Although Nokia explicitly stated that the OZO panoramic camera is not open to the general consumer and its sales are focused on enterprise customers, such price may not be high for large companies. But for some VR content startup teams that didn’t get or just got an investment, the selling price of $60,000 is really an astronomical figure. The emergence of Omni will largely solve this problem.
Compared to the highly integrated OZO, Omni's composition is more "extremely". Omni is a synchro device-centered hexahedron, with a central location on each face for the GoPro Hero 4 camera to connect. After the user connects the six cameras to the Omni's "core" and waits for synchronization to complete, he can take video shots. Now.
It should be noted that if you already have 6 Hero 4 cameras, you can also purchase the basic version of Omni, which is priced at $ 1,500, but the basic version does not give the relevant video editing software license.
Compared with Nokia OZO, GoPro Omni's biggest advantage lies in 360°x360° spherical video capture, while OZO can only perform 360°x180° hemisphere video capture.
However, Omni is not perfect. Omni does not have a separate storage device, but can only rely on memory cards on each Hero 4 for video storage.
In addition, GoPro also made a lot of efforts in software. Maybe users will find that exporting videos from six cards is very annoying, but the exporter Importer, which is specially prepared for Omni, will merge all the videos when the user is doing other work. After the user completes the operation, the user can view the entire video without performing other operations. video. If the user wants to upload the video as soon as possible, the user can also directly use the application to compress the video into Youtube or Facebook-supported 2K, 4K, and 8K videos. In addition, Kolor's Autopano Video editing software for Omni also allows video beginners to quickly get started and edit 360° video.
In addition to the storage mechanism, another problem with the GoPro Omni is that it cannot perform video streaming. In other words, Omni must export the video before publishing it to the Internet, unlike Nokia OZO, which can directly transmit video. But if the user is not so focused on live broadcasting, Omni is still very worthy of attention VR shooting equipment.