Las Vegas – April 9, 2018 — At the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB) today, Samsung is showcasing an enhanced Samsung 360 Round camera solution, including updates to its livestreaming and post-production software at NAB Booth N3406VR. The new solution gives professional video creators the tools they need—from capture to post-production—to tell immersive, engaging 360-degree and 3D stories for film and broadcast.

“At Samsung, we’ve been innovating in the VR technology space for many years, including introducing the 360 Round camera with its unique ruggedized design, and superior low light and livestreaming capabilities late last year,” said Eric McCarty, Vice President, Mobile B2B Product Marketing, Samsung Electronics America. “We’re excited to offer this enhanced solution to producers, directors, and creators of all types that helps them deliver seamless creativity, whether in a business or creative environment.”

Samsung 360 Round

Samsung 360 Round

Quality control at the moment of capture

The Samsung 360 Round delivers real-time 3D video to PCs using the 360 Round’s bundled software so video creators can now view live video on their mobile devices using the 360 Round live preview app1. In addition, the 360 Round live preview app allows creators to remotely control the camera settings, via wifi router, from afar. 2 The updated 360 Round PC software now provides dual monitor support, which allows the editor to make adjustments and show the results on a separate monitor dedicated to the director.

Crisp, Immersive Video Regardless of Condition

360 Round offers a vast array of features to ensure creators capture stunning, realistic content in a wide range of shooting conditions, including low light environments and high-action scenes. With a rolling shutter, 11.7 stops of dynamic range, f1.8 aperture size, and now, limiting luminance levels to 16-135, noise reduction and sharpness adjustments, as well as a hardware IR filter—it’s possible to get a clear shot with 360 Round in almost no light. The 360 Round also offers advanced stabilization software and ability to color correct on the fly, with an intuitive, easy to use histogram. In addition, users can set up profiles for each shot and save the camera settings, ensuring consistent quality and cutting down on the time required to prep each shot.

Removing Stitchline Pain Points

The 360 Round comes equipped with Samsung’s advanced Stitching software3, which seamlessly weaves together video from each of the 360 Round’s 17 lenses. Creators can stitch, preview and broadcast in one simple step on a PC4 without the need for additional software. The 360 Round also enables fine tuning of seamlines during a live production, such as moving them away from objects in real time, and calibrating individual stitchlines to fix misalignments. In addition, a new local warping feature allows for individual seamline calibrations in post-production, without requiring a global adjustment to all seamlines, giving creators quick and easy, fine grain control of the final visuals.

Samsung 360 Round

Samsung 360 Round

Improved process and output for both livestreaming and post production

The 360 Round delivers real-time 4K x 4K (3D) streaming with minimal latency.5 SDI capture card support enables livestreaming through multiple cameras and broadcasting equipment with no additional encoding/decoding required, and with the newest update, now further streamlines the switching workflow for live productions with audio over SDI.6 This provides producers with less complex events (one producer managing audio and video switching) a single switching source as the production transitions from camera to camera. In addition, 360 Round offers a number of new features to ensure video output is of the quality the creator intends, such as:

  • Ability to record, stream, and save raw files simultaneously, making the process of creating dailies and managing live productions easier. Many production teams like to distribute the event as video-on-demand (VOD) post show. Creators can now save the raw files to make further improvements to live production recordings, and create a higher quality post-produced version.
  • Live streaming support for HLS over HTTP, which adds another transport streaming protocol in addition to the RTMP and RTSP protocols. HLS over HTTP eliminates the need to modify some restrictive enterprise firewall policies and is a more resilient protocol in unreliable networks.
  • Ability to upload direct (via 360 Round software) to Samsung VR creator account, as well as Facebook and YouTube, once the files are exported—ensuring creators are reaching their audiences instantly with their immersive creations.

Availability

360 Round is available for purchase at numerous resellers.* For a complete list, please visit https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/mobile/virtual-reality/360-round/360-round-sm-r260nzkaxar-buy/. For more information on 360 Round, please visit www.samsung.com/360round.

1Available now on Google Play store. Use of Samsung Galaxy S9, S9+, Note 8 and Tab S3 devices are recommended.
2Wireless distances dependent on wireless router capability and environmental interferences.
3Basic PC system requirements – Operating system: Windows 10 Professional or above, 64-bit; CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K or above; Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 1060, 1 or more; RAM: 16 GB DDR4 RAM, 2 or more; Power: 850 W.
4System requirements for livestreaming – Operating system: Windows 10 Professional or above, 64-bit; CPU: Intel Core i7-6950K or above; Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti,2 or more; RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM,; Power: 1600W.
5Latency time may vary according to usage habits. Availability of service may vary by network or service region. Please check recommended specifications.
6SDI cards sold separately.

 

*All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice or obligation.