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Not 180, but you could buy that $15,000.00 go pro camera set for 360 video haha

Although I think truly immersive 360 video would require not only stereoscopic eg. Dual cameras per fov, but also that new camera technology that captures at multiple depths of field. Litho or something don't know what it's called. Then you can focus on different focal points of the video like up close or super faraway

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You're thinking of the Lytro light field cameras.

https://lytro.com/

No - OP is probably thinking of this GoPro rig:

https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/08/gopro-odyssey-rig-for-ju...

Both of them, the Lytro camera captures multiple depths of field. Combine that with stereoscopic 360 cameras so that $15,000.00 camera might as well make that at least $30,000 now with twice as many cameras. That's hard though, where does it focus? Screw that instead lets make a 360 phased array grid camera so we can rapidly capture everything

Edit: actually the phased array crap I thew in there doesn't make sense, only of you're meeting an em wave not receiving.

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