The Obsidian captures 360° Stereoscopic 3D videos… in 8K

Colored black to look powerful and premium, and christened Obsidian because it’s an unshakeable force to reckon with, Kandao’s VR camera comes with 6 fisheye lenses arranged in a hexagonal layout. Here’s where the mind-boggling feature list begins. The Obsidian doesn’t just shoot in 360°. It shoots in 3D 360°, using a clever algorithm that processes both left and right channels, stitching together the videos and images captured in real-time. Impressive? How about the fact that it also shoots 8K at 30fps?

Most 360° VR experiences fall short in one aspect. They’re flat (there’s no difference between the left-eye and right-eye channels), unlike our human eyes that see in 3D. Obsidian’s ground-breaking 3D VR technology literally captures immersive video the way our eyes see the world, and with an 8K resolution, promises to be the world’s most mind-meltingly immersive VR camera ever. No wonder it won an innovation award at CES, a German Design Award, an iF Design Award, AND got some serious compliments from Facebook’s VR engineer director, Brian Cabral.

Designers: Julien Gueuning & Christophe Branchu for Kandao.

Sarang Sheth

Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.

See Full Bio