With the new form factor, I was wondering if it were possible to click two cameras (one facing forward and another backwards) to do somehting similar to what the insta360 one R does I know it's impossible but do you think they would release an add-on camera in the near feature to support 360 stitching? Pretty dissapointing it's years away for DJI to release their own 360 camera.

Interesting Idea.   

For sure interesting. It would require a different camera module though. Currently no way to clip two of the same camera module together. No pogo pins and no clips to latch. But I would almost bet they are cooking something up like that for later.

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3D VR180 would be an interesting option as well, and probably better for the form factor than 360 because for seamless 360 the back-to-back lenses need to be very close together to minimize the blind zone.

Both ideas would require perhaps a new core module that can take 2 camera modules, keep them perfectly in sync, and also have enough bandwidth to record from two inputs simultaneously at full resolution. That may be a tall order - and a limited market segment. But I do like the idea.

With 4 microphones on each camera module (8 in total) and some clever and challenging matrixing, you could even perhaps record AmbiX compliant spatial audio with the on-board microphones? Sounds like another big challenge.

One reason the Action 2 couldn't work as a 360 camera even if you could run two sensor units back-to-back is the fact the FOV is only 150 degrees. A 360 or VR180 camera requires a FOV of 180 degrees at least. And to get crop room for stabilization, or overlap for stitching, in common 360/180 cameras the FOV of each lens is usually 220 degrees.

So, alas, two Action 2 modules back-to-back wouldn't quite be able to cover full 360.

Would be cool to see DJI make a foray into the 360 / VR180 camera market however.

Skaven252 Posted at 11-21 11:27
One reason the Action 2 couldn't work as a 360 camera even if you could run two sensor units back-to-back is the fact the FOV is only 150 degrees. A 360 or VR180 camera requires a FOV of 180 degrees at least. And to get crop room for stabilization, or overlap for stitching, in common 360/180 cameras the FOV of each lens is usually 220 degrees.

So, alas, two Action 2 modules back-to-back wouldn't quite be able to cover full 360.

Yeah, solid points. I would presume they could add a fisheye magnetic conversion module to each of the lenses so give some wiggle room for stitching but at this time it’s obvious it’s just not gonna happen. I don’t know what they’re waiting for. Patent nightmare I would speculate. Insta360 really nailed it though so kudos for them.