RYLO - 360 "Action" Camera

[Marc R. O'Leary]

Has anyone used one of these or have any experience with similar product. This is really interesting to be, but not sure worth the price tag.

FWIW, I really only take video for myself. I don't post anything on youtube or online anywhere.

https://www.rylo.com/

 

[B. Dean Berry]

I have a VSN v.360 that I nearly couldn't give away. The way these things work is that they shoot two 180 panoramic vids and splice them together. It's actually kind of a pain to convert them and do anything with them. They're really only useful if you are showing off video to a social media audience. Otherwise, they're pretty gimmicky. The resolution is nice, but something seems "flat" about the finished product.

 

[B. Dean Berry]

One thing they're very good for is "lazychasing". Just mount it on the roof and drive near a storm. It's going to record everything.

 

[Marc R. O'Leary]

One thing they're very good for is "lazychasing". Just mount it on the roof and drive near a storm. It's going to record everything.

There's nothing wrong with "lazychasing!" LOL

My thought was more for when you can't quite get the dashcam facing the right way. In my case, the dashcam is just a constant record of what's going on. I have other resources to do the detail work. In this case, if it was any good, I could pull off with my car in any safe position and hoof it to a better vantage point with my good gear while this thing records the ambient action.

I'll probably never pull the trigger on something like this because I'm cheap, but just wondering if it would be even worth considering. Seem's like a pretty clever system, but gimmicky stuff usually ends up getting left behind after the novelty wears off.

 

[Bill Hark]

I think the best aspect is the ability to frame later which would be good for very close storm video or if one was in the middle of the storm ie hurricane or blizzard. I suspect the trade off now is a decrease in resolution of the framed shot (in comparison to regularly shot video) but this should improve with later models.