GoPro’s new Hero 8 Black camera is here, and it didn’t arrive alone. The company also announced a new 360-degree camera today simply called Max. The twin-lens spherical camera costs $499, and it will ship on October 24th.
GoPro’s history with 360-degree capture stretches back a couple of years. It designed a wild 16-camera rig meant to shoot virtual reality scenes on Google’s Jump platform back in 2015, and it released a more compact six-camera version called Omni the year after. Then, the company tried to kick off a “new creative era” with its first 360-degree camera for consumers, Fusion, in 2017.
But while the Fusion was capable of capturing some truly wild footage, it was too...
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The GoPro Max is a reboot of the company’s attempts at a spherical camera
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