For example, companies like Immersive Media are using their geodesic-shaped cameras to take 360-degree video for clients such as Google's Street View and Red Bull.
The omni-directional system is also defined as axisymmetrical, but the sci-fi inclined will inevitably call it something else: Pictures that look like HAL-9000.ģ60-degree cameras and camcorders have been available before ( CycloVision's ParaShot digicam attachment comes to mind), but only until recently have they started to become widely used.