Yi 360 VR Review: The Best Value 360 Camera for Video

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  1. Breakdown Entertainment
    Breakdown Entertainment says:

    Hi anybody has the PC Software installer? Its not available from the official YI Website anymore and i cant find it somewhere else?

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  2. Henry Phillips
    Henry Phillips says:

    This is £150 on Amazon, would you recommend today still? I actually want good IS because going off road action camera style. Ofcourse I would like a Insta360 1X or Go Pro but dont want to spend £500 or anything close. Appreciate your advice 360Guy:)

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  3. David Hart
    David Hart says:

    I bought this camera in part because of your positive review, but I think you really need to update your video to now include that Yi has not updated the app for Apple IOS 13. It is now impossible to connect the app with the camera. I have written to Yi Technology support but so far no response.Do you have a contact at Yi Technologoy so that they will finally give an answer as to whether they plan to update the app and whether Yi is still supporting this camera? Thanks

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  4. old compass outdoor channel
    old compass outdoor channel says:

    just bought this, if you bought one as well, i sugest you return it immediately. there is no app or webb support any longer for the camera. camera works, but you will never be able to share to anything what so ever

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  5. Andrew Henderson
    Andrew Henderson says:

    Excellent review. No annoying music. Great content, examples and very knowledgeable. Will be buying one. Thank you.

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  6. Mike
    Mike says:

    HI! Question: I bought this camera, works great however the editing software they claim to have is vaporware, the link is dead and they email that it's 'coming'. What is your specific work flow to decode it for editing (Premiere?), then encoding it back for 360 use?

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  7. Jurgen Treep
    Jurgen Treep says:

    The website of YI is broken and downloading the desktop stitching software or updating the firmware is impossible.
    After some hard work I managed to get the latest desktop software and firmware but this was no easy task.
    I wouldn't recommend this camera while the website is not working and the camera can't be updated via the app. Please check the YI website first before you buy this camera.

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  8. maltfoto
    maltfoto says:

    I purchased this camera used (big mistake) last winter after watching this vid amongst others It worked fine on a long trip to Costa Rica until the end of the trip when it started to lock up after using it for a few minute's I would reboot the camera and then after a while reset it. this worked for a while Now the the camera will start up but freezes on the start up window. And shuts down after a few minute's I have tried everything replacing battery and memory card to no avail. Call yi tech support. They tried to help nothing worked and since the camera is out of warranty. I am pretty much screwed and stuck with 250.00 paper weight. The camera did produced some nice images and video when it worked. But after my experience I can not recommend this camera. If you do buy it, buy it new with the one year warranty. Michael

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  9. Scott Miller
    Scott Miller says:

    Been a while, have you seen a stabilization update in the software yet? This looks like a great camera for us, but that would be good to have.

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  10. Gmo Quez
    Gmo Quez says:

    Great video Daniel. Can I ask you, have you figured out how to get the camera to shoot video longer than 4 minutes? The YI "Help Center" website is useless –it says when the SD Card is formatted to ExFat you have options, but I don't get any video length options on my camera.

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  11. VIDEOMEETINGGEEK
    VIDEOMEETINGGEEK says:

    I just got this camera yesterday, and I hated it. Then I learned how to set it up, now I feel like you. This is awesome. The YI 360 desktop app is amazing. I have a SUPER FAST MSI LAPTOP with an NVIDA video card, and it stitched very fast. AND this is last years model so you can get it really cheap, if you hunt. it even has micro HDMI… I am testing a Qoocam too. The Qoocam is really cool, because the quality and the ability to switch between 180 3D and 360 is nice. BTW I liked your REVIEW. TY

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