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Nokia returns with 360-degree VR camera

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8 years ago

March 21, 2016

Nokia is back, and it’s back in a big way. After selling its mobile business to Microsoft two years ago, the Finland-based firm is re-introducing itself with great fanfare.

On Friday, Nokia Technologies announced the debut of the OZO professional VR camera, a $60,000 piece of hardware capable of recording 360-degree audio and video in full stereoscopic 3D.

The only problem, of course, is that the camera is meant to capture footage for virtual reality headsets, and those aren’t all that ubiquitous … yet.

The OZO is described as “a sleek, gray, cantaloupe-size sphere with eight lenses inside it,” which combine to record completely spherical footage.

Eight microphones also record and recreate true surround sound.

While Nokia has tested the OZO’s capabilities to capture VR video of astronauts in immersion pools at NASA’s Houston base, the camera is also set to capture aerial footage when mounted to a drone.

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