Facebook Introduces Its UFO-Looking 'Surround 360' Video Capture System

Social media giant Facebook unveiled its latest projects and concepts on April 12 during the F8 Conference for developers, and its crown jewel is this: the Surround 360. What appears to have a strikingly similar disposition of a Steven Spielberg UFO or a Neill Blomkamp prop, the saucer-esque rig is composed of 17 individual cameras -- 14 along its horizon and three fish eyes lenses positioned at the top and bottom. These cameras, which are globally synced to each other, capture all angles simult...