Facebook has been supporting 360-degree videos on its website for a while, but there’s not a whole lot of content available yet. Looking to change that the company today announced it has designed and built a durable, high-quality 3D-360 video capture system, and it’s open sourcing both the hardware and the accompanying stitching code to accelerate the growth of the 3D-360 ecosystem. Everything will ve available on GitHub this summer.
The Surround 360 uses a total of 17 cameras, including 14 wide-angle cameras, plus one fish-eye on the top and two on the bottom, allowing it to capture video without showing the pole that holds the camera up.
