Lenovo’s $299 Mirage Camera streams 180-degree VR video to YouTube
Lenovo is launching a point-and-shoot camera designed to live stream 180-degree VR video. The Lenovo Mirage Camera, as it’s called, has two fisheye cameras that record super-wide-angle 3D footage. It can store images and video locally, but Google and Lenovo collaborated to connect it with Google Photos and YouTube — where people can watch on either a flat screen or a VR headset. It starts at $299 and is supposed to launch in the second quarter of 2018, alongside Lenovo and Google’s Mirage Solo VR headset.
The Mirage Camera uses two 13-megapixel cameras that capture stereoscopic images. It shoots 4K video at 30 frames per second, and users can stream them to YouTube over a Wi-Fi network. (Lenovo says there’s also a version that can stream…
