These days there is a lot of buzz around 360° video. Whether it be mainstream providers such as Facebook looking to normalize it by bringing it into its users news feed or your established beverage provider PepsiCo looking to sell you a Mountain Dew with a 360-degree video marketing campaign. The hype around 360-degree seems to have hit mainstream corporations. Even self-driving giant Waymo has jumped on the bandwagon with it’s 360-degree experience showing how Waymo’s vehicles use lidar, radar, cameras and computer vision to see and predict the movement of objects.
However despite the excitement, the question becomes whether 360-degree video recording is mature enough to convince the average users to ditch their digital recording devices and evolve from one plane to record the world in 360 degrees. In past the challenge around 360-degree video technology has been the price to invest in a costly 360 camera and the time required to master video editing software to bring all the great footage together. There are an increasing number of 360 video editing options on the market, however could you really see yourself spending hours working on audio ducking, multi-camera editing, motion tracking and video stitching?
Our friends at Shenzhen Pisofttech are looking to address consumers concerns with the Pilot Era. Built with 4 impressive F2.2 large aperture fisheye lens, this dynamic device captures 8K videos with high definition ambisonic panorama audio. Great for action or important life (wedding, party, birth) events, the Pilot Era is small enough to be carried easily in the palm of your hand.
It has anti-vibration and automatic distortion correction tools that ensures that important video being captured is not lost due to human error. And because Pisofttech knows that not all consumers are software video editing experts, Pilot Era takes all your recorded 360 panoramic video data from the 4 hi-definition lenses and utilizes an inbuilt computer to stitch the images locally without the need of any additional video editing software.
The Pilot Era can capture 360-degree video at 7680 x 3840 at 25fps; 6144 x 3072 at 50fps, 5760 x 2880 at 30fps, or 3840 x 1920 at 60fps. It can also take 360-degree photos (8192 x 4096 or 10,000 x 5000) and live stream 4K video to Facebook and YouTube. I love the integrated and intuitive touch screen icons make the Pilot Era easy to operate
Pisofttech is hoping 360 degree videos become mainstream. The Pilot Era is a step in the right direction of this video evolution
Features and Specifications
- Dimensions: 61.4mm x 61.4mm x 159.0mm
- Weight: 565g — 1.2 lbs.
- Gyro: 9 axis
- Lens:
- 4xF2.2 large aperture fisheye lens
- V 122° / H 185°/ D 185°
- Screen:
- Size: 3.1 inches
- Resolution:800*480
- Type: TFT-LCD
- 8K Panoramic Video:
- Resolution:: 8K*4K(7680*3840)@24fps / 6K*3K(5760*2880)@30fps / 4K*2K(3840*1920)@60fps
- File Format: MP4
- Encoding: H.265/H.264
- 8K Panoramic Photo:
- Resolution: 10K*5K(10000*5000) / 8K*4K(8192*4096)
- File Format: JPG
- Connectivity:
- RJ45: 1000M/100M
- WiFi: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
- Audio: Ambisonic panorama sound
- Storage:
- RAM:4GB LPDDR4
- ROM:64GB UFS
- Expand Storage: Maximum support 256G TF card
- Battery:
- 6000mAh,
- More than 3 hours continuous recording
- App 360° player
For more information or to acquire the: Pilot Era
About Shenzhen Pisoftware Technology Co., Ltd.
Pisofttech, based in Shenzhen, China, is the world’s leading panorama camera company. Founded in 2012, Pisofttech has received over $5 million funding from investors including ARM, SummitView Capital and SouthBridge Capital. The company is committed to panoramic stereovision algorithm research, embedding the images and graphics algorithms in the local device with great precision.
