GoPro Fusion

At the moment, the GoPro Fusion would well be the best affordable 360-degree camera. It is also the easiest to use from an editing perspective. But given that we are dealing with really heavy files here, GoPro might need to improve the sharing capabilities.

As with virtually all GoPro products, the company tends to make incredibly well designed and impressive hardware (as long as it doesn’t fly). It’s easy to shoot the footage, and it does what you expect it to out on your adventure. But it’s the software that tends to let it down.

The GoPro Fusion's hardware is great. You can turn 360-degree video into a special effect shot that would have baffled Hollywood a decade ago, and both image quality and stabilisation are excellent.

For GoPro’s first 360-degree VR camera, the GoPro Fusion gets a lot right. I say that now after it’s been out for a few months, because the experience at launch was considerably poorer.

The Fusion is too expensive for what feels like an unfinished product. The hardware is solid but the software has a lot of catching up to do.

The GoPro Fusion is a 360-degree camera that's stupidly simple to shoot with and capable of producing very impressive video. Its real win is OverCapture, though, which on iPhone is utterly brilliant.

The GoPro Fusion feels a tad unfinished, but there’s enough that the company has done right to recommend it as a worthy 360 camera that’s particularly well-suited to existing GoPro users familiar with the company’s apps and feature sets.

The incomplete app support limits how many people can use this camera. If you’ve got a recent iPhone and a fast laptop, sure, it’s great. But for everyone else, it’s not there yet. The constant crashing of the desktop app is certainly something fixable, but as of this writing, it’s incredibly frustrating.

GoPro’s Fusion camera is not the first 360 camera on the market, but it brings more pixels and higher frame rates than most of its direct competitors, and more importantly it has the software package to assist users in the transition to processing 360 video footage. 

Capture everything at every moment with the Fusion. This thing provides the ultimate perspective in stunning 5.2K through two lenses that see it all. It's waterproof, it's mountable, it connects to the GoPro app, voice control and so much more that makes GoPro a necessary tool to effectively and...More