{"id":17075,"date":"2015-09-10T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/gopro-is-now-selling-its-crazy-16-camera-virtual-reality-rig"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:42:06","slug":"gopro-is-now-selling-its-crazy-16-camera-virtual-reality-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/gopro-is-now-selling-its-crazy-16-camera-virtual-reality-rig","title":{"rendered":"GoPro is now selling its crazy 16-camera virtual reality rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AR9_SZtJ_KU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The wild, behemoth 16-camera virtual reality rig that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/5\/28\/8673367\/google-io-2015-gopro-3d-vr-cameras-360-degree\">GoPro announced<\/a> at Google\u2019s I\/O conference is <a href=\"http:\/\/gopro.com\/odyssey\">officially called \u201cOdyssey,\u201d<\/a> and is now available for purchase. But it is not for everyone. It costs $15,000, and only \u201cprofessional content creators and producers\u201d will be allowed to buy it \u2014 after they submit an application.<\/p>\n<p>That price tag might make your eyes spin, but it does cover a good amount of equipment. Buying an Odyssey means you get 16 of GoPro\u2019s top-of-the-line Hero 4 Black, a microphone, the rig and all the necessary cables, a Pelican case to carry it all in, as well as a warranty and support. For a production company that\u2019s looking to get into the virtual reality game but doesn\u2019t necessarily want to go the DIY route, this could be the best option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/9\/8\/9261745\/gopro-google-odyssey-virtual-reality-camera\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wild, behemoth 16-camera virtual reality rig that GoPro announced at Google\u2019s I\/O conference is officially called \u201cOdyssey,\u201d and is now available for purchase. But it is not for everyone. It costs $15,000, and only \u201cprofessional content creators and producers\u201d will be allowed to buy it \u2014 after they submit an application. That price tag [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64260,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17075\/revisions\/64260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}