Lenovo’s Mirage Camera streams 180-degree #vr video to #youtube
Lenovo is launching a point-and-shoot camera designed to live stream 180-degree VR video. The Lenovo Mirage Camera, as it’s called, has two fisheye cameras that record super-wide-angle 3D footage. It can store images and video locally, but Google and Lenovo collaborated to connect it with Google Photos and YouTube — where people can watch on either a flat screen or a VR headset. Its price will be under $300 and is supposed to launch in the second quarter of 2018, alongside Lenovo and Google’s Mirage Solo VR headset, which is priced under $400.
The Mirage Camera uses two 13-megapixel cameras that capture stereoscopic images. It shoots 4K video at 30 frames per second, and users can stream them to YouTube over a Wi-Fi network. (Lenovo says…
