GoPro, an action camera specialist, has announced its first model to shoot 360-degree videos and images.  The primary GoPro Fusion comes with a built-in image stabilisation spatial audio capture and the gadget can also be utilised underwater.
The US company had posted a net loss for its past seven financial quarters resulting in a total deficit of $506m and is in need of a hit product but yet had been close in cash reserves as of August to $150, As informed to BBC by Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at financial services firm Wedbush Securities, the issue was due to the weak sales together with the heavy research as well as development outlay in order to revive the brand and strengthen growth. He further informed that if the new product does not seem to work, they would have to trim the spending.  He added that he was not worried regarding its survival of the primary go pro fusion though tends to be doubtful that they could increase revenues with the primary go pro fusion product. In the past, GoPro had provided gadget with a high-end spherical video ring known as the Omni that had all images together from six of its cameras.  However due to its cost of $4,999, it was beyond the reach of most of the consumers.

Automatic Digital Stabilisation of GoPro Fusion

In November, when the primary GoPro fusion would be on sale, it would be priced at $699 making it around 40% more costly than the flagship action camera of the company.  The gadget comprises of two lenses one on each side of its body of the primary GoPro fusionand has the potential of the following:

• Filming 360-degree footage in 5.2L resolution at 30 frames a second and 3K resolution at 60fps
• The primary GoPro fusion has the tendency to work in water at depths of around 5m (16ft)
• Can accept voice commands in ten languages
• Provides automatic digital stabilisation which the company claims to come close to the level one would anticipate from using a distinct mechanical gimbal

Overcapture – Film Spherical Scene in GoPro Fusion

At the launch at San Francisco, numerous filming modes on the primary GoPro fusion had been displayed.  These comprised of Overcapture that enabled the user to film a spherical scene and thereafter play back while moving the camera to determine what viewpoint is observed in concluding footage of the primary GoPro fusion.

With this gadget, users were capable of creating a traditional looking clip where they could avert the action drifting out of view.  Angel View, another mode comprises of mounting the camera on an extension pole which tends to project form the body of the user.  In the concluding footage, the pole is noticed and the camera seems to have wandered in front of the person.

The primary GoPro fusion according to the founder and CEO of GoPro, Nicholas Woodman has the potential of capturing every angle at the same time as though one had six GoPro cameras fused in one.  Woodman has described the primary go pro fusion as a revolutionary gadget adding that it was the first of its kind.  However the primary GoPro fusion has made its entry in an increasingly crowded market for spherical cameras.