Check Out GoPro's New Six-Camera VR Setup

Action camera maker GoPro Inc

have unwrapped its new six-camera "Omni" VR rig, which it will display at NAB 2016, April 18-21 in Las Vegas. According to a press release, GoPro claims that its synchronized six-camera spherical array produces high-resolution, stunning image quality, while proprietary hardware at the center of Omni enables pixel-level synchronization between all six HERO4 Blacks. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gopro-to-showcase-omni-at-nab-2016-300247908.html#continue-jump Other features of Omni, as stated by GoPro, include: • Six Cameras that act as one • Proven image quality of the HERO4 Black…times six • GoPro Kolor software optimized Meanwhile, AppleInsider says "Omni appears to be GoPro's in-house answer to the burgeoning virtual reality recording market, which it first entered in a tie-up with Google (now Alphabet Inc

) last year." Though the company has not announced the price of the product, AppleInsider noted "the Omni will almost assuredly come in at a lower cost than the $15,000 Odyssey unit that's designed to work with Google's Jump platform." http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/07/gopro-officially-reveals-six-camera-omni-vr-rig Shares of GoPro rose 1.48 percent to $12.30. Shares of Ambarella Inc

, which supplies video compression and image processing components to GoPro, also gained 1.30 percent to $45.16.