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it seems that absolutely everybody is getting into the business of 360 degree video including Facebook this is the Facebook's around a 360 that was announced at the f8 Developers Conference in San Francisco now this flying saucer-like camera has 17 cameras built-in there are a couple of fisheye lenses at the top and the bottom you want to get into the tech specs let's get geeky they are seven millimeter lenses F 2.4 and when the footage is stitched together it can produce an output up to 8k resolution these cameras are using what is called a global shutter rather than a rolling shutter so that will hopefully remove all of those artifacts created when the shutter is opening and closing all of this camera technology does not come cheap however Facebook is not actually getting into the camera business they're going to make all of this open source available on github for people to play around with if you wanted to put this entire kit together it cost around $30,000 the video is available to be viewed on a whole bunch of different Facebook platforms like Facebook 360 video gear VR and oculus but of course it's producing these regular 360 video for any other platform - that's all going to be available towards the end of this year and this is the Facebook's around 360 unveiled at the f8 Developers Conference