Nearly a year ago, Yi Technology announced development of a 360-degree VR camera rig using Google’s Jump platform. Today, at the NAB show in Las Vegas, the imaging company showed off the results: the Halo VR camera. Halo isn’t just one camera, but 17 of them. Using the company’s 4K action cams, the array literally …

Last year, video live-streaming platform Livestream released a first-of-its-kind camera, Mevo, that uses a 4K-resolution image sensor and some very smart software to let you digitally reproduce the look of a multicamera shoot. The setup then lets you broadcast from the camera to Livestream’s site, Facebook Live and Twitter/Periscope. Adding to that, today, Livestream announced the camera will be able …

GoPro’s been deep into developing commercial VR capture systems for a couple years now. First, there was the large Google Jump-optimized Odyssey, then the significantly smaller Omni and now, the wearable Fusion. Unlike the Omni with its synchronized array of six GoPro Hero4 Black cameras and the Odyssey with its 16 cameras, the Fusion is a single 5.2K-resolution spherical camera …

Steve Ballmer has a new project that’ll help you uncover just where your tax dollars are going. Ballmer, who worked at Microsoft for more than 30 year before retiring as CEO in 2014, started developing a database shortly afterward to look at revenue and spending across federal, state and local governments, the New York Times reported Monday. USAFacts is a …

Sprint aims to take some of the confusion and expense out of global roaming charges with its updated international service. The wireless carrier said Tuesday its customers will now get basic data and text messaging free in 165 destinations as well as voice calls for $0.20 per minute. LTE high-speed data can also be purchased directly from their phone without …

Pennsylvania State Police confirmed the suspect accused of fatally shooting an elderly man in Cleveland and posting it to Facebook is dead. The suspect, Steve Stephens, 37, was initially spotted just after 11 a.m. by an alert citizen in Erie County, Pennsylvania, police said in a statement Tuesday on Facebook. Troopers located and pursued Stephens for approximately two miles when …

The DJI Phantom 4 is officially dead dead — or it will be as of April 30. Enter the new Phantom 4 Advanced. Joining the Pro model released last November, the Advanced is essentially the year-old Phantom 4 with the nicer camera found on the Pro. That camera features a much larger 1-inch image sensor that can snap 20-megapixel photos …

Now playing: Watch this: The flying selfie camera that follows you everywhere… 1:12 The Hover Camera Passport is one of several selfie-centric drones released in the past year and, while it’s garnered more attention than others, it’s about to get a big boost in recognition thanks to Apple. Zero Zero Robotics, the group behind the compact foldable flying camera, inked …

GoPro wants you to buy a new Hero5 camera and is willing to give you a price break to do it. The catch: You’ll have to send them your old one first. For a limited time, GoPro owners can knock $100 off a Hero5 Black or $50 off a Hero5 Session if you send GoPro any Hero camera. And it …

Ever since 4K-resolution screens started showing up on laptops in 2014, their value has been up for debate. At the time there wasn’t much benefit outside of photo editing, with little 4K content available and software that couldn’t scale properly for the increased resolution. And then there are the increased hardware demands to play games or video at 4K, so …