---
title: "Now You Can Build Your Own 360 Degree Camera, Courtesy of Facebook"
description: "Facebook has just fulfilled its April pledge to release the plans and instructions for its Surround 360 camera."
date: "2016-07-28"
modified: "2016-07-28"
authors:
  - name: "Jelor Gallego"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jelor-gallego"
url: "https://futurism.com/now-you-can-build-your-own-360-degree-camera-courtesy-of-facebook"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Meta"
tags:
  - "360 degree camera"
  - "facebook"
  - "github"
---

# Now You Can Build Your Own 360 Degree Camera, Courtesy of Facebook

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/facebook-360.png>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://techcrunch.com" target="\_blank"\>Facebook\</a\>\</em\>*

Facebook unveiled[ its 360-degree camera](<https://futurism.com/facebook-just-unveiled-open-source-360-degree-camera>) a few months back, as part of its push into virtual reality. But it also unveiled that it won't be *selling* them. Instead, the social media giant's plans for Surround 360 will be open source-- and they've finally been released.

Facebook [released all the hardware and software designs](<https://code.facebook.com/posts/265413023819735/surround-360-is-now-open-source/>) of its Surround 360 camera [on Github.](<https://github.com/facebook/Surround360>) The whole thing comes in an Ikea-like package.

![undefined](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/360-ikea.png>)
*Github*

All-in-all, building a Surround 360 will take four hours and will cost $30,000 in parts. But that is money well spent. The 4-megapixel lenses can shoot 4K, 6K, or 8K 360 video, and fisheye lenses on the top and bottom remove the blindspots. Post-processing will be a snap with Facebook’s image-stitching software, and the camera also offers dynamic streaming.

Facebook previously announced that the goal of making the camera open-source was simple: it wanted more 360 content. “Build it yourself, modify it, make different versions — that’s the goal. We wanted to connect the world with rich, new media. This is how we can get there faster,” said Facebook’s director of engineering on the project [Brian Cabral.](<https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/26/if-you-source-it-they-will-build/>)

Interested in the project? Set aside four hours (or more) of your time and get building!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4veH96EEe0