{"id":28306,"date":"2016-07-26T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/facebook-open-sources-its-360-degree-video-camera"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:03:50","slug":"facebook-open-sources-its-360-degree-video-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/facebook-open-sources-its-360-degree-video-camera","title":{"rendered":"Facebook open sources its 360-degree video camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-open-sources-its-360-degree-video-camera.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook said from the start that it would open source its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/12\/facebook-announces-its-360-degree-camera\/\">Surround 360 camera<\/a> this summer, and it\u2019s following through on that promise. You can now <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/facebook\/Surround360\">visit GitHub<\/a> to learn how to build the camera, install its software and (naturally) tweak both the hardware and software to meet your needs. Just keep in mind that this isn\u2019t exactly a homebrew project \u2014 you\u2019ll need about $30,000 in parts to build the official version. It\u2019s more for video pros that want to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/17\/facebook-shows-its-first-video-from-its-360-degree-camera-rig\/\">360-degree content<\/a> without having to turn to pricier, pre-packaged offerings like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/30\/nokia-ozo-vr-preorder-60k\/\">Nokia\u2019s Ozo<\/a>. Still, it\u2019s worth exploring the source if you want to either see how Facebook\u2019s VR cam works or design a lower-cost alternative.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/07\/26\/facebook-open-sources-surround-360-camera\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/07\/26\/facebook-open-sources-surround-360-camera\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook said from the start that it would open source its Surround 360 camera this summer, and it\u2019s following through on that promise. You can now visit GitHub to learn how to build the camera, install its software and (naturally) tweak both the hardware and software to meet your needs. Just keep in mind that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61043,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306\/revisions\/61043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}