Ricoh concept camera makes spherical panoramic images in one shot

I can't believe this! It just happens in a one shot, thats so cool! I want to use this at least one time. In the market you can also find different types of watermark software. To know more please visit www.masswatermark.com

Google can use this to take better photo for google map I think. It would increase productivity too.

Nothing new here. Pentax proposed an even nicer concept some years ago,but many other did. http://www.sandydan.com/photo/wide/sphere/nikonlrg.jpg
Stitching two emispheres brings some problems to the final result. You need a quite perfect fisheye lens, with a very corrected CA and fringging down to the very border. Let's say more. You need more than 180 degrees, 200 at least, an incredible flare resistance and a very precise exposition and synchro of WB, or you will ALWAYS see the stitching seam, fisheyes must be closer or you will have a large blind area!
Then is better to use a squared, or a 4/3 sensor, in order not to throw away a lot of black pixels. Let's say they use a 24MP apsc sensor. The circle dia would be 4000 pixel. Cut edges, overlap area etc. and you end up with a 3500x7000 panoramic image. I stitch panoramas since 1998, and project software and panoheads since 2003. I've seen it all, nobody is doing a really GOOD non-stitching camera

Great for sports. Stuck on top of our race car we could see everything that happened around us after the race. Software would allow distortion free prints in any direction

You might be able to wear it as a hat - like one of those "propellor hats". Certainly any advantage of being able to take street shots without pointing the camera directly at the subject might be lost by the attention generated by the hat. Certainly you would be able to see what was going on behind your back and watch out for knives being planted there. Sounds like a great tool for big business and politicians.

Or make it into a regular lens and then go about holding your camera on your head? Image to smartphone seems better.

Not a new concept - my old 360 One VR from Kaidan parabolic mirror lets me do that with a number of my cameras, but the resolution is low. Having a small device like this might gain some traction in the real estate market for low-cost walk-through photos but I can't see it replacing serious pano work with panoramic heads and high resolution photos.

Google "multi-cameras in a backpack" version:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/google-trekker-backpack-maps-the-grand-canyon/

Ah, but can it capture a recognizable face if placed in a 7-Eleven? This would be a real time saver for high end real estate. Looks a bit like a Toucan with batteries, though.

Looks like something from WALL-E

Finally I would be able to take a wedding photograph with myself included in it cuz guests always say you have been taking photos all day long, let me take a picture of you.

It may make me rething on what to wear on the day of the photoshoot. The possibilities are limitless ;)

now we need a 360 degree fill flash cuz I like to be lit properly

Interesting that mobile viewer he's running shows a "Share to Facebook" icon - AFAIK Facebook has dropped support for the few panorama viewing apps that were prototyped on their service. Panoramic photography won't be coming to the masses until the popular social media platforms support some standardized panorama rendering engines, be they QTVR, Flash, HTML5 or whatever.

Just a COOL toy ...

The biggest issue with these types of cameras is the resolution of the captured image. To get any decent resolution, you are going to have to have a LOT of megapixels (gigapixel for anything realistic). Lotsa mpxls/mb and wifi to phone/tablet usually don't jive too well if you have a lot of photos or are in a hurry or have limited storage space, and definitely not for a data plan.

The built-in panoramic functions of most compact cameras suffer similar fates, giving you a panorama of maybe 5mb up to 20mb in size if you are lucky. To get detailed panoramas, you really need to get up above 50mb, and that is just for a 360* pano with one plane. For a 360 sphere, you would need at least 3x that for detail. So far as I know, that is only done manually, outside the camera, on a potent computer (maybe Defense industry has in-camera tech, but we will never know).

All that being said, I love the idea/concept. Please give us options for different resolutions!

It should be god sent for applications like this:
http://www.mekan360.com/360fx_nevravillanevrainsaat-izmir-cesme-markali-konut-villalar-insaat-tamamlanan-projeler-luks-konutlar-tamamlanan-projeler-konut-firmalari.html

Patent monopolists will try to kill it, just like they stifled QTVR innovation. I hope I'm wrong, because I want one (travel size, please).

they already exhibit this camera in last year Photokina, though this is a smaller version of that. So this is not new.

nice

A better viewer and a larger screen probably makes a big difference. It would have to have a ton of megapixels to make much sense though imho.

nice! Very nice!

2x180º simultaneous, no registration issues. This has Winner written all over if they can make visualization trivial.

Video capture would allow very immersive photography! Much like this: http://krpano.com/video/video.html

Could be cool to use for security with wifi sending images in say 3 second intervals of stills. Mount it in a dome and attach to interior exterior of home with motion detector car or entry or helmet ect.