There have been so many 360-degree VR cameras announced in the last several months that, even if you’ve been paying attention, you may have missed the Vuze camera. The palm-sized box made its first public appearance at CES 2016 and was promoted as the “the world’s first consumer, portable 360-degree 3D VR camera.” Read more …

Making a good movie from your action-cam clips usually requires more than stringing together a few clips and adding music, which is why a lot of video goes unedited. It’s an issue even the category leader, GoPro, has acknowledged. According to a survey conducted by multimedia software maker Cyberlink with help from international market research firm YouGov, one in four …

Like a lot of people, I don’t enjoy editing video. Mainly because I’m not very good at it, but also because I don’t want to sit at a computer to do it. Apparently, many GoPro users don’t want to do it, either, so in February the camera maker went out and bought a couple of apps to help make editing …

Streaming-media service Spotify has acquired CrowdAlbum, a startup that collects photos and videos of performances shared on social networks. The acquisition is designed to help artists better “understand, activate, and monetize their audiences,” Spotify said Wednesday. CrowdAlbum’s staff will also assist in building new products for performers related to touring. Spotify is folding CrowdAlbum into its group responsible for Spotify …

TiVo has a new option for people looking to ditch their cable providers once and for all. The DVR maker unveiled on Wednesday the Roamio OTA 1TB for over-the-air programming. It can record up to four shows simultaneously from local networks available via an HDTV antenna. Its 1 terabyte of storage holds up to 150 hours of high-definition programs. To …

Photo-printing service SnapBox specializes in making pro lab-caliber products accessible to consumers. It’s grown its offerings since its start in 2012 to include everything from fine art prints to pillows at affordable prices, and now it’s adding photo books to the list. But they’re not just your run-of-the-mill books. They use a special bookbinding technique so that when you open …

Amazon is getting its own smartwatch, sort of. The CoWatch, an Indiegogo project currently more than $45,000 past its $80,000 funding goal, will use Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa, to do things like control smart home devices, get traffic and weather reports or play music. It’s like have the power of an Amazon Echo on your wrist. CoWatch’s capabilities are …

It’s not a mystery that most people use their smartphones as their primary camera, if not only camera. So it makes sense that you’d want the experience of using your phone’s camera to be a bit more, well, camera-like. There have been attempts including cases and slide-on grips and LG recently stepped up with an add-on grip for the G5 …

Teradek makes wireless video devices for capture, control, monitoring and webcasting, and now it’s bringing that knowledge to the burgeoning 360-degree content market with Sphere, a system for real-time monitoring and live-streaming of panoramic HD video. No, it’s not the sexiest of subjects, but soon Sphere will be what helps bring immersive live events to your eyeballs. The small black …

Last September, DJI introduced the Zenmuse X5 and X5R for its Inspire 1 drone, two stabilized camera systems made for professional video. Last year also saw the release of the company’s Osmo battery-powered handgrip that turned the original Inspire 1 camera, the Zenmuse X3, into a handheld camera with 3-axis stabilization. And now it’s bringing all of that stuff together …