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360-degree cameras are the action cams of the future – and Insta360 has found a way to combine their amazing capabilities with a more traditional GoPro-style setup for monster image quality. Meet the modular Insta360 One R, co-designed with Leica.

The Theta family of handheld 360-degree cameras is expanding with the introduction of an update to 2016's Theta SC. The SC2 ups the megapixel count, is capable of 4K video recording and comes with 14 GB of internal storage.

Given how 360-degree video cameras allow viewers to feel as if they're "in" the viewing environment, it would follow that one of their best uses would be for shooting underwater footage. Well, the 360bubble Deep is designed to help that happen.

​​Drowsy drivers kill, which is why we’ve seen a number of technological solutions take aim at the problem. The Vezo 360 is the latest to roll onto the scene and serves as a 360-degree dash cam first and foremost, but with the ability to pick up on tired drivers and give them a nudge if need be.

​Insta360 is no stranger to the world of 360-degree video cameras, having brought us consumer, prosumer and professional models. Now the company is back with the Evo, which can shoot both 360-degree interactive video and 180-degree 3D.

​Since being launched in 2013, Ricoh's Theta 360 degree camera has grown in number and capabilities. Now the company has added the latest iteration to the range – the Theta Z1, which becomes the new series flagship.​

​It was three years ago that we first heard about Orbi Prime sunglasses, which use four integrated cameras to record 360-degree interactive video. Orbi has now unveiled a more robust version of the glasses, but perhaps more interestingly, it's also built the technology into a football helmet.

360-degree VR footage needs to be super high resolution to let you look around a nicely detailed landscape, and now Insta360 has an all-in-one rig, the Titan, that gives 11k/30fps resolution using eight micro 4/3rds sensors and Flowstate stabilization.

When we reviewed the Insta360 Air, we were impressed with the capabilities of this wacky 360-degree camera and the bizarre effects we could get with it. The main thing it needed was more resolution - and with 5.7K/30fps video, the new One X camera brings nearly double the power. So how does it rate?

Insta360 is calling its new One X camera a GoPro 7 killer due to its advanced omnidirectional motion stabilization. But we think that might be underselling it, because no GoPro can get the crazy, Matrix-style slow-mo shots this thing can take when you throw it right through the action as you film.

​A Facebook 360 and Red Digital Cinema collaboration that began in May 2017 has finally produced fruit – the Manifold camera, the "first studio-ready camera system for immersive 6DoF storytelling."

Insta360 has upped the ante on pro-level 360-degree VR filming with its new super-portable multi-camera ball. With six lenses, auto-stitching, FlowState stabilization, HDR and 8K-per-eye 3D capability, the Insta360 Pro 2 packs a ton of capability into a US$4,999 piece of equipment.