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heyguys is often 360 video is coming whether you like it or not make sure you might be used to standard boring 2d video like this but with the Ricoh theta s you have a camera that fits in your pockets I can shoot full 360 video so there are a lot of 360 cameras on the market what I like about the theta is that knowledge of the shoot greats builds at least in theory but it's small stuff like the Year 360 while the great camera only works with a single phone it's also a lot harder to carry in your pocket so inside the box the first thing we get is the actual camera itself you know this kind of reminds me of one of those old flip cameras only difference is instead of having one camera it actually has two so no matter how you hold it you're always in one of the cameras view so it's got this nice soft touch material we have a button up on front as well as a few things on the side turn off Wi-Fi switch between photo and video mode as well as just turning on and off the camera on bottom of the just standard tripod thread as well as USB and HDMI so in theory you can actually do livestream with the theta however you have to plug it in probably nightly be super useful inside it's rocking eight gigabytes of internal memory but there's no microSD expansion so that means that while there not a ton of space especially considering stills are only 14 megapixel in the video with 1080p you should be able to get a fair bit onto the camera but before we get too far into that we get the wonderful Quick Start Guide which does not look quick at all and we also have a pouch so since this is a 360 camera it actually is important to keep those lenses clean most compact cameras will have some sort of like lens covering or whatever but these are big really wide-angle cameras so it actually probably makes sense to keep it in the pouch so the first step is to download the app so that's actually one of the nice things about the theta is that while the gear 360 only works with a few modern Samsung phones this should in theory work with most everything oh wow that looks like a thing okay we have video so what do I do here this guy up what is that image synthesizing I just take a 360 photos myself okay well um that's uh that's a thing that's definitely an amazing shot um but still looks really nice though there's no artifacts or anything I'm sure if you look close enough you can figure out where it's stitched but today she looks really nice alright so with the live preview I can get a good look of what I'm gonna get on the phone which is super weird but when ready 3 2 1 it's like the greatest show denoise ever so once we actually get it on the phone we can just swipe around and see that's wow that's a little bit disturbing um oh my gosh whoa wait a second you can zoom it all the way out to a sphere Oh interesting that's actually really cool so honestly the stills are kind of one of the cooler parts of this camera but there is a video mode as well we should be able to see how amazing the world looks in full 360 video or how crunchy and low resolution it is but probably amazing right probably no this is bad I mean sure I'm watching it on my phone and it's only a 1080p image that's being stretched for the full 360 frame but pretty much usable here if you guys want a full 360 video I'll be able to see a bunch of samples from this there will be a link in the description over on Facebook which actually do a really good job of supporting the 360 video but it first minute it's not that so it's one thing to use the fade in the office but the real world test is the real world something I really like about the theta is just how portable it is so it'll easily fit in a pocket and when you're ready to actually take a shot hit the power button and done I'm sure like we didn't look like nerds or anything at all there I really appreciate just how quick it is to be able to transfer stuff and turn on so those pictures we just took I can pretty much immediately bring it over to my phone and once it's copied a little bit a little bit of hand action there you can see it didn't quite perfectly stitch it so I think one of the things you have to kind of get used to is holding it maybe just a little bit lower so if those dual 12 megapixel cameras we're getting a 14 point 4 megapixel stitched file and it looks really nice even with the sort of I would say pretty pretty harsh done in a greens you can see above the building is a little bit too Slone out but honestly this is not bad-looking at all and if you really want to sort of get the exact shot that you want you do have full manual control so it might just be sitting on a bench right now however where I'm actually doing is recording a 360 video so the quality isn't amazing so yes you can be able to kind of look around and get the full 360 experience if you're watching this in 360 however the issue is is that it's just not that high resolution it works it's definitely a cool effect but honestly I feel like this still looks a lot better than the video however it does take some getting used to so what I like about meseta is just how easy it is to use it turns on quickly you just have a quick shot you can transfer it to your smartphone and see it there or of course a to a computer edit it whatever you want to do now the image quality I think is a lot better than the video quality however if you want to get 360 video a try especially 360 stills the theta is worth a look so what do you guys think about 360 definitely be sure to let me know what you think in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one