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Tech NewsA Crazy Rig of 53 GoPro Cameras Filmed a ‘4D’ Video of This Dude’s Head
Meet Tim. Tim’s head was filmed in with 53 GoPro cameras. You can zoom in and out on every last pore on Tim’s head. Tim’s head is a marvel of 3D filmmaking. Tim is actually the founder of TimeSlice, a VR company that aims to create so-called “4D” films with its monster rig of over … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
GoPro Will Slim Down Its Lineup to Save Itself
GoPro’s revenue and stock prices are going off a cliff right now, thanks to quarterly results that are in the tank. Company financials are not usually interesting in the slightest, but when they might spell the end days of a vastly popular camera company, it’s worth paying attention. We don’t normally cover quarterly earnings calls, … Continued
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Tech NewsPeru Straps GoPros to Hungry Vultures to Sniff Out Its Trash Problem
Vultures make me think of that dopey guy from Loony Tunes or crooked-bill predators circling a poor desert rat on the brink of death. But in Peru, the carcass-eating birds will soon be outfitted with cameras so they can help map Lima’s awful trash problem. Authorities in Lima are attaching GoPro cameras and GPS trackers … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSeeing a First Person View of Hockey Tricks Is So Damn Cool
I don’t really realize the skill of professional athletes until I see them up close. The speed in which they do things, the control they have over their bodies, the hand eye coordination, it’s all ridiculously superhuman. Just check out this video of hockey players running through exercises and tricks. You get to see some … Continued
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Tech News
You Can Now Livestream Your GoPro Stunts Directly to Periscope
DIY broadcasters of Periscope, rejoice! You are no longer limited to the crappy, low-resolution, front-facing camera on your phone. Following an update to the Periscope app today, you can now use a wide-angled, high-resolution GoPro Hero camera to broadcast live to the world. I’m on location in Aspen for the Winter X Games, and I … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhat It’s Like to Be Inside a Washing Machine
Surprise! It’s dizzying as hell. That’s obviously to be expected since a washing machine spins and spins and spins but if you kind of squint just a little bit and flex your imagination a lot of bit, you can pretend that the washing machine is actually a portal opening capsule that’s revving itself up. It … Continued
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Tech NewsSafely Experience Being Shot out of a Cannon With a GoPro Cannonball
Daredevil isn’t exactly a popular career choice, but the folks from Eclectical Engineering came up with a novel way to experience what it’s like to be shot out of a cannon, without risking your life or requiring you to join a traveling circus. Taking advantage of the extremely compact form factor of the GoPro Hero4 … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHere Are the Best GoPro Videos of 2015
GoPro cameras are used to document everything these days—from crazy action sports to awesome first person views to time lapses to traveling the world and more—that it’s really no surprise that a compilation video of all the best GoPro videos that were shot in 2015 is going to be so awesome to watch. Here’s what … Continued
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Reviews
GoPro’s Hero4 Session Just Finally Became a Solid Buy
The Hero4 Session is GoPro’s smallest camera. It’s a little, unibody cube that’s waterproof on its own and is even more versatile in the ways it can be mounted thanks to its lightness, its shape, and its size. We liked it a lot when we tested it, but there was a problem: At $400 it … Continued
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Tech NewsOur Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
If you were hoping for a bunch of apps to help make Thanksgiving a little more fun, sorry — that was the “theme” last week. This week there are a few apps to help you out with issues like not-so-unlimited data from your mobile provider, needing to pull together advanced digital sketches without the use … Continued
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Tech News
Clever Earbud Microphones Bring 3D Audio Recording to Your GoPro
GoPros have fundamentally altered the way we think about video—we’ve never been closer to the action. The audio for the extreme footage we’re capturing, however, has yet to catch up to the action footage. Roland’s new Wearpro Mic is a step towards making the videos sound as intense as they look. As its name implies … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsGoPro’s Experimental Drone Footage Looks Pretty Damn Good
GoPro is developing a drone. That much we know; what we don’t is how much it will cost or what it’s like to fly. What we do know, however, is that the footage looks pretty darn great. In a YouTube video, GoPro has shown off some demo video from its prototype quadrotor. The emphasis is … Continued
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Tech NewsHow To Shoot A GoPro With Your Teeth
Want to capture epic first-person action photos, but don’t have a hand free? Pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz has a trick for you. It’ll cost you a quarter. You can see more of Rafa’s whitewater adventures on Instagram. IndefinitelyWild is a new publication about adventure travel in the outdoors, the vehicles and gear that get us … Continued
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Tech News
How GoPro Is Turning Its Athletes Into Storytellers
Sport photography isn’t shot from the sidelines anymore, it’s made by athletes as they do their thing. But before they can do that, they have to learn to shoot like a pro. We went inside the camp where they’re trained. The GoPro athlete camp I attended was geared specifically towards the company’s adventure athletes: rock … Continued
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Tech News
The Hero+ Is GoPro’s New Entry-Level Camera, Now With Wi-Fi
GoPro’s got itself quite a stable of little cameras these days. We already had (from high end to low end) the Hero4 Black, Hero4 Silver, Hero4 Session, Hero+LCD, and the straight up Hero. Now, squeezing in between those bottom two, comes the Hero+. It’s a $200 version of the Hero ($130), but it has Wi-Fi … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidVideo shows what it’s like to get attacked by a crocodile and to see inside its mouth
Man. These crocs come out of nowhere and attack with such a quickness that you don’t even know what’s happening until you’re already clamped down inside the terrifying and unrelenting jaws of the crocodile. National Geographic made some flotation devices that held cameras to capture exactly what it’s like to get attacked and be inside … Continued
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Tech NewsGoPro Falls Off Drone and Into Burning Man Rave, Loathing Ensues
A maybe fake video of a GoPro tumbling off of a drone and landing on the main dance floor at Burning Man has emerged. It is now a perfect testament to what makes those three things—GoPros, drones, Burning Man—so annoying. GoPros are annoying because nobody really cares about your action-packed life, when it mainly features … Continued
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Tech NewsGoPro’s Google-Powered Camera Is the Next Best Thing To Teleportation
This year, the most amazing thing I saw at Google’s annual developer conference wasn’t a phone, a tablet, or even a head-mounted display. It was a 360-degree 3D video that took me to Japan. Now, filmmakers can spend $15,000 on the tech that made it possible: the GoPro Odyssey. It’s one heck of a camera. … Continued
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Tech NewsGoPro Just Made It Way Easier to Share Your Epic Moments
Remember: if you do something rad, but you don’t share a video of it instantly on at least three social media channels, it probably didn’t happen. Thankfully, the world’s leading purveyor of radness-capturing cameras has just made the whole process a lot easier. In an update to the GoPro smartphone app, and the GoPro camera … Continued
By Chris Mills