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so you may already be aware of LG and Samsung's 360 cameras but did you know that there's one that's been around for about three generations now it's judge of a guard from Android authority what's going on everybody and this is the Reiko theta s the third iteration of the Reiko theta comes to South by Southwest and we got to take a look at it and see how it stacks up to a couple of the other 360 cameras that we've seen in the mobile space today but the Reiko theta s is a high spec model that complements the irregular theta and comes with high resolution one by 2.3 12 megapixel CMOS sensors that both stitch together a 360 capture now it can do a 30 frames per second Full HD video capture as well and a low-light performance should be okay with a F 2.0 lens as we are going through the specs the camera is able to take still images or long movies at a max length of 25 minutes long and be able to provide the 360 type of video that will be played on YouTube Facebook and even VR headsets the theta s connects to any smartphone using the Reiko app and you are able to send the images and the photos and videos to the smartphone when you need to but inside of the theta S is a 8 megapixel internal memory storage that is not bolstered by a micro SD card slot however but the connections on the bottom can be used to stream at the content that is being captured by the theta as live to either a laptop or to a display the live streaming capabilities were really fun to look at as they had an installation on the trade show floor at South by Southwest showing off the capabilities of live streaming when it was connected to a macbook and we have more information about that in the interview that you're going to be seeing in just a bit overall the device is actually really sleek with a matted finish but a high quality feel all around and it's really easy to use and you just have to point it up and press the shutter button after you select the mode over on the button to the side all right and actually you can probably just see us on the field we're all in frame here including the camera so there is a live streaming component to the theta yes it will stream via USB to any laptop device what you're seeing is the raw feed here from the camera unstitched so what you see on your mobile device through the app is a stitch together component where both sides are connected and the just lens distortion is corrected for so you watch my hand here you'll see it rotate from one side of the image to the other side of that plane because that's that's the 360 where the image is divided yeah so this is what it would look like in a video editing software I mean I could see myself changing exactly yeah that's it yes if you're looking if you're editing still or video the file formats are JPEG and mp4 can be used in any editing software but this is what you look like the image looks like in a native form without stitched together through the application so do you see a live streaming especially for events for example like South by Southwest becoming a very common thing I mean I'm already seeing it yes we are I think it's that we still have to have the software catch up with the hardware affair so you have to have stitching in here for most people to perceive it correctly do we have a feedback here is this one ah yeah that is a new website that has come up that does have the software built on the back end called hug this is a Japanese co-workers oh nice page so that that's what it would look like on YouTube 360 site for instance all right yeah this is yeah this is very similar but we're waiting to see that integration happened on more and more platforms out there oh well that's great well yeah as Mike just mentioned the streaming is done via USB to this laptop currently right now in this case and then it could be streamed like to this website right here which is great so for for consumers do you think that this is going to become like I don't know we were talking about vlogging earlier it just keeps I just keep thinking to myself for certain events it seems like they're going to be so many different people vlogging the same thing from driving perspectives it just seems really interesting than anything with video is you can be your own director you can choose your point of view as an end user and watch what you want to watch so exactly I think you're right I think a lot of people that are doing a vlog you want to get as many eyeballs as they can and being unique can certainly help help with that Dever yeah definitely the Ranko theta has been recently released on retails for $349 so if you're looking for a camera from a company that has been doing a 360 video for a little while now Reiko may be the great alternative that you have to upcoming peripherals like the gear 360 and the LG 360 keep it tuned to Android 34 even more from South by Southwest as we bring you all of our coverage from Austin Texas but also remember that we are your source for all 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