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take 360 degree photos and videos with
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this little device let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at an
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ad on camera for your Android phone this
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is the coolest little tiny thing this is
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the life I I to hundred VR AR 360 degree
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camera and this lets you take spherical
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images now we can talk about specs but
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let's go ahead and jump in and look
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first this is a photo that I took
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without having the right software so you
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should know you can't share this with
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everyone via text messaging because they
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need a special app to interpret it but
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that special app also happens to be
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built into things like Facebook so check
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this out Here I am on Facebook and I've
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uploaded one of these photos and now I
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can actually interact with it
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better yet here's a video and as the
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video goes I can change my vantage point
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how cool is that so interesting now this
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video I made by having the camera in the
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phone and holding it up out my sunroof
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so not really the best or safest
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strategy long-term but this is so
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ridiculously fun that I have been
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posting so much and having so many
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different experiments with doing this
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now one of the things I realized is that
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because it just produces a photo with
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the photos you can actually go into a
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photo editor and modify it so I've taken
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some that were upside down and then I
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just rotate it to the correct
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orientation then upload it to Facebook
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and then I get interesting things like
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underneath the playground right really
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interesting so let's go back and talk
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about this a little bit so first off it
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is obviously a dual camera and it has a
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USB see now this particular ShowMe phone
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actually has a USBC connector so super
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easy you plug it in you're good to go
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a lot of Android phones don't have that
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so they also include a USB C to micro
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USB adapter so a little bit more awkward
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looking because now it's going to be a
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but then you have something like this
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and that actually might give you
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slightly better results because it's
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elevated off the phone slightly so less
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of the phone shows up in the image now
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let's see so it works with Android and
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you need to get the life VI 200 app and
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that's a free download if you want to
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experiment with things like VR and AR
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then they have life e Rome and Life East
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roll apps I didn't go down that road
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because I was mostly interested just in
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the spherical images and it's just
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ridiculously fun now photos in high-res
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which is the only way you really want to
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take pictures the lower res not so great
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high res is 28 80 by 1440 low res is
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2160 by 1080 which is you know sort of
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HD ish but I found that they were pretty
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I don't know not really nice and
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detailed and people complained when I
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posted them on Facebook they're like
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it's really kind of out of focus dude so
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the thing is is that when they're doing
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a spherical image you're collecting a
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lot of data and then you're looking at a
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subset of it as you're moving around so
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you really want maximum resolution now
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videos are a different story high res
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videos are 28 80 by 1440 which puts you
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kind of sorta in that 3k it's not quite
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4k but it's more than HD and they look
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really great lower res video you can do
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2160 by 1080 again that's basically HD I
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would stick with the higher resolution
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those are at 30 frames per second that's
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fine as you saw in the video of me
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driving looked great now let's see not
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much else I can tell you they are on
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IndieGoGo oh let's actually look on the
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phone here's a quick tour of here's the
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app with the gallery and within the
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gallery once you're looking at a photo
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or video there's different views you can
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choose and that same image looks very
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different with different views kind of
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fun it also lets you stream live on to
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YouTube or Facebook so I haven't tried
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that but I'm sure that some of my
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viewers would get a bit of a headache
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it's definitely a new technology but it
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also because it works with VR
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it means that these are all set up and
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ready to go if you're going to use VR
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something like that so that's pretty fun
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and this is a very easy way to enter
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that world and try it and play a little
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bit so these guys are on IndieGoGo right
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now but you can start out by checking
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out and learning much more about it on
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their website but whoa speaking of
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virtual reality I would like you to
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reach into your screen and click that
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subscribe button dude it's like so just
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seriously subscribe to my channel
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appreciate it and if this video is
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thumbs up ain't never hurt no one on
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now lifee i 200 vr AR 360 degree camera
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makes spherical images easy and super
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fun it's 159 bucks or 209 if you want to
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get all these other attachments and in
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things that they include or the smart
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move go to IndieGoGo and fund it before
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they start shipping because you can save
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substantial amount on the cost of this
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and this is super fun I really hope they
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come out with a version for the iPhone
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too but whatever the deal is I really
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like that I can just put it on my camera
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I can push a button and now I'm doing
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360 degrees really fun I will be posting
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more of those and with that I will catch
