Samsung Gear 360
The Samsung Gear 360 is well-praised for its simple approach in making VR content creation easier for the average consumer. How good is it really?
Samsung Gear 360 Specifications
The Samsung Gear 360 is a device part of the Samsung virtual reality ecosystem. This sits alongside other devices such as the Samsung Gear VR and the Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Since there’s a way to consume media through the Gear VR and the smartphones, the Gear 360 does the virtual reality video capture to be shown on the mentioned VR-ready gadgets.
Gear 360 have two camera modules facing opposite directions that can capture 180 degree images from each camera. When stitched together after editing and importing to the Samsung Galaxy smartphones, the media can be edited like a normal video and uploaded to Youtube as a 360 VR content.
Camera
Dual CMOS 15MP Sensor
(Default Output pixel count equivalent to 25.9M)
Dual F2.0 Fisheye Lens
Resolution
Movie Recording
· Dual Cam: up to 3840 x 1920 (30 fps)
· Single Cam: up to 2560 x 1440 (30 fps)
Still Capturing
· Dual Cam: up to 7776 x 3888 (30M)
· Single Cam: 3072 x 1728 (5M)
Camera Mode
Dual Lens Mode
· Video, Photo, Time-lapse Video, Looping Video
Single Lens Mode
· Video, Photo, Time-lapse Video, Looping Video
Dimension
66.7 x 56.3 x 60.1 mm (152 g incl. battery)
Display
0.5″ (72 x 32) PMOLED
Memory
1GB RAM
MicroSD Card (up to 200GB)
Sensor
Gyro, Accelerometer
Battery
1350mAh
Connectivity
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5GHz), Wi-Fi Direct,
Bluetooth® v4.1, USB 2.0, NFC
Codec
Movie Recording MP4 (H.265)
Still Capturing JPEG
Compatible Devices
Galaxy S6, S6 edge, S6 edge+, Note5, S7, S7 edge
with the Samsung Gear 360 Manager app
PCs with the Gear 360 ActionDirector software
Chipset
DRIMe5s
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