Speaking of which, Facebook touted their partnership and specifically their upcoming switch to ‘Dynamic Streaming’, to ensure that the portion of the 360° video you’re looking at is ~4X higher in resolution/clarity than before. On the flip-side, their heavily touted partnership with Facebook (Zuck was on-hand) and the desire to drive sales to the $99 Gear VR, make it a possibility we’ll see more focus there.

History tells us that Samsung connected accessories tend to be Samsung-only, so I wouldn’t expect to see that change here. The unit streams video to Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge phones, but Samsung wouldn’t clarify yet whether it’ll work with other Samsung phones – or even non-Samsung Android phones (let alone iOS devices). As for any given individual view, Samsung reps on-hand noted that it’s going to basically be 1080p. It’s somewhat odd they didn’t find a way to bridge that tiny resolution gap, and give them the marketing perception benefits associated with 4K branding.

In the case of the Samsung Gear 360, the total video resolution is a smidgen under 4K, at 3840 x 1920 (4K is 3840 x 2160). Thus when companies talk about a 4K action camera, you need to ask: Is any given view 4K? Or just the full resolution of the 360° image? If it’s the full resolution, that’s not so exciting. So you really need to divide it up quite a bit. That’s because those megapixels and resolutions are spread out across the entire 360° view around you. However, do keep in mind that anytime you talk megapixel or resolution numbers on 360° cameras, things get skewed really quick. The net of that is a still image size of 7,776 x 3,888px. The two cameras each have a 195° field of view, with the slight overlap being used for stitching the imagery together. The camera is capable of 30 megapixels via its combined 2x15MP cameras, each with an aperture of F2.0. The new Gear 360 cam is roughly the size of a nectarine, and fits pretty easily in the palm of your hand: This builds on the concepts they showed off at CES with their Project Beyond (which was aimed at pro photographers). Late into the presentation, they introduced their Gear 360 camera.

Instead, I’m focused on the wearables (none this year), however as was the case of this year – the action cam. As is customary for my posts in the past from the event, I (mostly) ignore all the phone stuff. Tonight was the annual Samsung event at MWC, where thousands of media folk descend on the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona, situated along the waterfront, to see the latest Samsung gadgetry announced.

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