Action cameras are a gadget that mostly cater to a person’s wish to see themselves in a certain way: Most people aren’t skiing off mountains or cliff diving most of the time, but they aspire to. The issue with most action cameras, though, is that even when you actually do something cool, you still have […]
View More Rylo’s shoot first, frame later camera is ideal for casual adventure-seekersCategory: GoPro
Insta360 teases new ‘FlowState’ stabilization tech for 360 cameras
360-degree camera maker Insta360 just released a video that shows off a new feature it’s calling “FlowState,” which stabilizes a ‘flat,’ traditional HD video frame by extracting it from a 360 capture. This might be a familiar technique if you’ve followed what GoPro and Rylo are doing with their own 360 cameras, but Insta360’s take […]
GoPro camera takes an intimate journey on sushi conveyor belt
Ever wondered how the world looks like from a sushi conveyor belt?
One fearless YouTuber set off to answer this curious question, setting his GoPro onto a sushi conveyor belt in Tokyo. The camera makes its way around the restaurant, capturi…
GoPro’s Plus subscription service now offers replacements of broken cameras
Whether the action cam business can alone sustain the GoPro business is going to at least rely on them continuing to dominate it and find new revenue streams within it. Part of this strategy will be continuing to refine the company’s $4.99 per month subscription service, GoPro Plus. The company is announcing changes to the service that should make it a bit more worthy of your money. Read More
GoPro CEO explains shutdown of company’s Karma drone unit
Yesterday, GoPro confirmed TechCrunch’s reporting that the company was shuttering its Karma drone division and laying off hundreds of employees. Today, CEO Nick Woodman is at CES on damage control.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Woodman said that the company is shifting focus entirely back to action cams, a market he insists is “absolutely” robust enough to sustain the company. Read More
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GoPro stock jumps on news company is seeking a sale
GoPro is looking to sell the company and CNBC is reporting that it hired JP Morgan to find a buyer. At the time of writing GoPro’s market cap is a hair about $1 billion and its stock price jumped on news the company is looking to sell. GoPro’s stock price went on a ride today. Just prior to the market opening, GoPro announced its revenue will fall short of expectations and a… Read More
Amid cuts, GoPro is bailing on the drone market
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GoPro is coming to terms with reality. Despite its best efforts, it’s just a camera company.
The above line was written over a year ago by Mashable‘s Kerry Flynn but the line is just as true now as it was in November 2016.
On Monday, GoPro confirmed reports of layoffs, reducing its current workforce to fewer than 1,000 people, and announced it was exiting the drone business. Later, CEO Nick Woodman even hinted he’d be up for selling the company.
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman on CNBC just now said that he’d be open to being acquired “to scale GoPro even bigger” #hardwareishard
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View More Amid cuts, GoPro is bailing on the drone marketWhere GoPro goes next
GoPro, already a beloved camera brand, just couldn’t take flight. The GoPro vision – a little box you can attach to the wing of a plane or your ski helmet and catch unparalleled views of the world – is cloudy now on news that trading halted this morning due to low performance attributed to price slashing, layoffs, and the closing of the company’s nascent drone… Read More
GoPro confirms layoffs, exit from drone business
GoPro today released preliminary fourth quarter 2017 results which paints the company in struggling situation. The company says it plans to reduce its headcount in 2018 from 1,254 employees to fewer than 1,000. It also plans to exit the drone mar…
View More GoPro confirms layoffs, exit from drone businessReview: GoPro Hero6 Black
GoPro has always occupied a fairly tight niche of camera users. In fact, there are almost certainly more people that own the action camera than have lives gnarly or radical enough to actually need them. With this laser focus, has come GoPro’s ability to continue optimizing fully with each new update to its Hero series.
This action camera expertise is on full display with their latest… Read More
Review: GoPro Fusion 360 camera
Spherical cameras have seemed to be one of the more undesired tech trends to be pushed on people in the past couple years. Consumer tech companies have opted to develop these expensive products as a segue into capturing the user-generated VR vertical, but with VR itself in a rather tenuous position, the market for a fairly pricey spherical camera that captures more content than users can… Read More