GoPro Unveils Hero6, Launches Fusion Spherical Camera

GoPro on Thursday unveiled its adjacent-generation action photographic camera, the Hero6.

Powered by GoPro'due south custom-designed GP1 processor, the Hero6 is capable of capturing 4K, threescore frames per 2nd and 1080p240 video. It also features "the nearly advanced video stabilization ever achieved in a GoPro," the visitor said.

GoPro also today launched Fusion—a waterproof, mountable v.2K spherical camera it's been testing since April—plus new mounts and accessories, and new Follow and Watch modes for its Karma drone.

The Hero6 Blackness offers "dramatically improved dynamic range and depression-light performance," plus an all-new touch zoom, and three times faster footage transfer to your phone than its predecessors via 5GHz Wi-Fi, GoPro said. It's waterproof to 33 feet (10m) and compatible with Karma and existing GoPro mounts. You can command it with your vox in 10 languages.

GoPro Hero6

The Hero6 is designed to work with the QuikStories, a feature in the GoPro app that automatically creates short, shareable videos from your footage.

"Hero6's next-level image quality, video stabilization and three times faster QuikStories performance makes it a powerful storytelling extension of your smartphone," GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a statement. "It'southward never been easier to live information technology, so share it… using GoPro."

The new GP1 processor enables "twice the video frame rates" over previous Hero camera generations, GoPro said. It also advances GoPro's computer vision and car learning capabilities, allowing the Hero6 to analyze visual scenes and sensor data for improve QuikStories.

Hero6 is available now at retailers worldwide and GoPro.com for $499.

GoPro Fusion

The new Fusion virtual reality photographic camera has ii lenses: one on the front end and another on the back; information technology captures immersive, 5.2K spherical video and 18MP spherical photos. It's waterproof to 16 feet (5m) and offers advanced stabilization; 360-caste audio; and a agglomeration of different modes, including time-lapse video and photograph, night lapse, and outburst.

Information technology also offers voice control and is compatible with the GoPro app, from which you tin play back and share your footage as VR content. A cool new app feature called OverCapture will permit y'all create traditional, stock-still-perspective video from your 360-footage, GoPro said.

Fusion is available for pre-order at present for $699, and is slated to start aircraft in November.

Meanwhile, GoPro'southward Karma drone is getting ii new machine-shot paths: Follow and Lookout. The Follow path trails the Karma Controller, framing you lot in the shot while the new Watch automobile-shot path will keep the Controller (and you) in frame while the drone hovers in place.

Finally, GoPro also today announced a new pocket-size extension pole and tripod called Shorty; an updated floating handgrip with a quick-release mounting feature called The Handler; and the Cycle Mountain + Floaty, which the company said is "ideal" for point-of-view shots.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'due south skillful on fitness and smart home products. Instruction yoga for nearly ten years has helped her in evaluating a range of continued health products including fettle trackers, center charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness grooming machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.