Are 360 Degree cameras about to ruin any chance of privacy on the dancefloor?!
Cast your minds back, and you may remember that this summer’s Coachella festival allowed those of us stuck at home the opportunity to enjoy 360 streaming, which meant not only could you peep what was going on with the performances, but also with the crowd too – a fully immersive experience from the comfort of your own home. With news that most of the footage had been lost, those who wanted to re-live the experience were disappointed, however, one man has stepped in to the rescue…
Not officially part of Coachella’s streaming team, but rather a fan who managed to get in with his own 360 rig, Robert Scoble got all the way to the front of the Sahara tent during Deorro’s performance to capture this footage, which has been uploaded to Facebook using their new 360 feature.
Only Coachella “in the crowd” 360 video from 2015I have the only 360 video from the Sahara Tent at the famous Coachella Music Festival. Here you see Deorro performing.I had the only 360 degree rig that wasn’t run by Coachella itself (and the only Spherical one). Thanks Gopi Sangha for getting me in with my rig, see you next year!This is my first Facebook 360 video, hope you enjoy! Thanks Mark Zuckerberg and team for the ability to distribute 360-degree videos like this.Thanks to my employer, Rackspace Hosting, who urges me to do stuff like this and paid for my video gear and editing software (I’m a futurist there, and most of my videos are of new companies, and innovations — tomorrow I’ll be seeing a self-driving Mercedes Benz, for instance). We are helping many of the tech companies that meet at Coachella every year. More next year as I attend again.I’m working on another video right now of a real Silicon Valley startup that just won a CES innovation award. That will be up in a while. Unfortunately Facebook only lets me upload 10 minute videos at the moment using this 360-degree capability.
Posted by Robert Scoble on Sunday, 15 November 2015
On the one hand, this is obviously pretty cool, but on the other, how would you feel about enjoying your night, perhaps a little worse for wear, only to find the promoter – or another party goer – had been filming you all night with a 360 camera? Are we heading towards a new culture where smartphones are no longer the bigger enemy? Whilst this is unlikely to affect underground electronic culture any time soon, it looks like the big time productions of the mainstream just got a whole lot bigger.
Let us know your thoughts on this!
Words By: Yasmine Ben-Afia