GoPro Quadcopter Drone Coming Soon, Spherical Camera Mount for VR Also In Works
In days to come, GoPro will be launching a quadcopter drone, alongside a spherical camera mount for VR. The company also plans to sync GoPro cameras to cloud, GoPro CEO Nick Woodman revealed Thursday at the Code Conference.
"It seemed natural to us that we're in the GoPro enabling business and drones are the ultimate GoPro accessory... that was all the rationale we needed to say OK. It's core enough to our business to make sense to make our own," said Woodman.
He highlighted that the GoPro cameras would stay compatible with other drones as well.
The aforementioned device is expected to launch in the second half of 2016.
Regarding spherical camera mount, the device would be ball-like featuring six GoPro Hero cameras hat will together capture spherical content, which will be later knitted together for a better VR experience.
Users will also be able to view the content on third-party VR headsets such as Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard and Microsoft Hololens.
Recently GoPro announced that it would buy Kolor, a virtual reality software maker, and now the reasons seems apparent. "It's very clear based on this acquisition they (GoPro) are probably going to develop a camera that can record video 360 degree, the spherical video," said Dougherty & Co analyst Charles Anderson to Reuters at the time of the announcement.
