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Mind-Blowing 360-Degree Cam and Tony Cairoli WilL Leave You With a Dumb Smile on Your Face

Action cameras have become a household item during the past years, and GoPro is arguably the hero camera that took things to the next level. Lightweight, tough, and easy to strap to almost anything, be that human, animal or inanimate objects, the GoPro has quickly become the standard in action sports.
Tony Cairoli's 7-cam helmet 4 photos
Photo: Red Bull
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Still, as good and feature-laden as the latest-generation action cameras may be, there is always room for improving the video results they produce. And when it comes to this, pushing the limits is more of a human creativity factor, than a technology-related one.

After all, first comes the need, then the idea for a solution, and then, with help from other areas of expertise, the technology that makes everything possible.

On-demand 360-degree imagery

The video you're about to experience at the end of this piece represents one of the wackiest, and at the same time, coolest 360-degree footage we saw recently.

Red Bull strapped no less than seven GoPro cameras to the helmet of MX star Tony Cairoli and put him on a dirt track promising a can of cold, refreshing energy drink at the end of the route.

The cameras have been all loaded into a special, custom-made 7-slot silicon case. The cameras point to different directions, but the image captured by their lenses overlaps and is able to provide a coherent, consistent, true 360-degree, seamless image.

And because advanced video technology is about more than putting seven video stream together, the viewer can choose whichever angle he or she desires. Using six keys on the keyboard, the image one gets is a most immersive one that goes beyond the real-life possibilities.

It's like seeing Cairoli's ride through the eyes of a possessed human, moving the head in ways that would fill characters in the Exorcist with envy. Can you fathom how cool road videos could be obtained if this technology becomes widely available?

Enough talking, let's spin some heads! Follow the link to see Tony Cairoli's ride the Exorcist way!
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