Sunday, May 31, 2026

360fly HD Camera

UPDATE: Ended up selling it on eBay
Came across this gizmo after my occasional thrift run.

For under $20 CAD it was an interesting find for me. I've never had a 360 cam before. 

Much of the 360fly company has dissolved but remnants still remain. 

Product page here https://www.360fly.com/360fly-hd.html

The win/mac software is around in archived sites floating around. 

One site seems to have it but much of the functionality is broken/unusable https://360fly-director.software.informer.com/

I did connect it to an android device with limited functions. The APK is floating around. One source is from APKPure.



The footage comes out as fisheye. Cool effect for some edits but not much to work with for other software like Insta360 and etc. Before when the OG apps were working you could edit and inject the 360 metadata but now you need to do it manually for each file if you plan to edit. I used Spatial Media Metadata Injector for windows which you can find at GitHub.

I'm not some sort of extreme sport/adventurer so much use for this is novelty at this stage. I will use it for my biking runs, kind of an insurance policy if any footage is needed. Post 2000 and pre 2020 tech for me seems to be my jam because there's some interesting innovation and maybe less manufacturing constraints at the time.