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by ge96 8 days ago
I got a Insta 360 go 3S camera recently and damn the tech is amazing. What's sus is the mandatory phone activation/allowing permissions. Once I activated the camera I deleted the app.
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Yes, I have X4. It has amazing hardware, but the activation thing is such a shame. I really wish it were illegal.

And the proprietary video format. I want an open source converter but chances are unlikely.

insv files? there are plenty of tools on github that can interact with these files and convert them to standard formats
I just bought an x5 to use with my moto and play around with.

Right now trying to figure out the aesthetics of 360. For one, everything that in real life looks huge, is not so impressive with 360 until you get really close. But at close distance even a beer can looks like a building.

Ha funny I see those on cars eg. Mustang GTs playing around in the streets

I think it's useful if you have that chase view where you pan around and show the other cars/motorcycles around you

Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D65gz3UfvhE

Did more or less this with my mother-in-law and her Echo Dot.