**First Person Mode: A Game-Changer for Autofocus**

I recently had the opportunity to try out Insta360's latest feature, First Person mode, which has taken my autofocus channel to a whole new level. This innovative feature allows me to capture high-quality, wide-angle shots of myself while driving down the highway with one hand, making it much safer and more convenient than holding a phone in both hands.

To use First Person mode, I simply put the camera on my head or hold it in my mouth, track the part of the sphere that faces forward, and boom! I have a first-person wide-angle shot of what I'm seeing as I drive. This feature is not only useful but also super out of the way, making it perfect for capturing footage without distracting others.

One of the most interesting features of First Person mode is the "nose mode" or "bullet time." When used in conjunction with a selfie stick and a special cord called a "quarter twenty score," I can swing the camera around my head on a string, creating some pretty sweet videos. This feature is essentially a advanced selfie show, allowing me to capture myself in 360 degrees while still showing off my environment.

Another impressive feature of Insta360's software is its ability to edit and render footage quickly. With just one app, I can track objects, create custom video shots, and even swap skies in real-time. This feature is not only fast but also incredibly powerful, allowing me to achieve complex effects with ease.

One of the most impressive things about Insta360's software is its ability to analyze and edit footage quickly. When I'm reviewing a clip shot on this camera, it can track objects and create a convincing sky swap in just a few seconds. This feature is faster than any Adobe app or motion graphics tool I've tried.

**Accessories: Enhancing the Experience**

In addition to the First Person mode feature, Insta360 offers several accessories that enhance the overall experience. One of these is a reader accessory that allows me to plug my phone into the camera without having to remove the battery. This feature makes it easy to access files and other content on the go.

Another accessory is a mic jack adapter, which allows me to plug in via USB-C. This feature adds a little bit of production quality to the camera, making it perfect for more advanced shoots. Insta360 also offers loop recording, which records every 30 minutes, allowing me to use the camera as a dash cam.

**Weaknesses and Limitations**

While Insta360's software is incredibly powerful, there are a few weaknesses I've encountered. One of these is the potential for distortion when shooting in First Person mode with back-to-back cameras. If the subject is placed directly on the seam between the two cameras, it can cause some distortion, especially if the subject is very close to the camera. However, this is easy to mitigate by changing the orientation and ensuring that somewhere in the sphere is the subject.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, Insta360's First Person mode has taken my autofocus channel to a whole new level. The software is incredibly powerful, allowing me to capture high-quality footage quickly and easily. With its range of accessories, including reader and mic jack adapters, I can enhance the overall experience and add more production quality to my shots.

I'm excited to bring this feature into my Autofocus videos, including first-person driving shots, selfie stick outside the car content, and other creative ideas. If you want to see these clips for yourself, be sure to subscribe to my channel below, where I'll have a link to the camera itself as well as more information about Insta360's software.

**Technical Details**

Insta360 is the company behind this innovative camera and software. The camera itself features 449 cameras on a sphere, allowing for incredibly wide-angle shots and advanced features like First Person mode. The software is available on most smartphones and can be used to edit and render footage in real-time.

The camera's accessories include reader adapters that allow me to plug my phone into the device without removing the battery, mic jack adapters that add production quality to the footage, and loop recording capabilities that make it easy to use the camera as a dash cam.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by insta360. so this tiny camera has basically one great trick that makes it the most versatile camera that i've ever used so there's been action cameras and 360 cameras for a while now i've tried some on and off for a few years but insta360 asked to sponsor a look at their latest highest quality most fully featured version yet this is the x3 and i'm really glad i did so here's how it works this camera body has two half inch high resolution sensors back to back so they're each recording a super wide angle video that stretches way back actually a little beyond 180 degrees and so since each camera goes a bit beyond 180 there's a little overlap at the seams and then the camera does the work to stitch the two feeds together into one and then even better since it knows where the mounting point is it knows where a selfie stick would be and it can stitch that out of the video and then of course it knows its own exact dimension so can also stitch itself out of the shot so essentially it creates this invisible ball of 360 degree video capturing goodness which is pretty sick but honestly the how it works isn't nearly as interesting as what it actually enables you to do so check this out you pair it up to your phone right you can see what the camera is pointed at which is me and then when i start moving it it stays pointed at me so they named this flow state stabilization basically it's using ai to find a horizon and keep that level and locking on a target somewhere in that sphere of video and now you're really getting an idea of the power of this camera this isn't something you get just to shoot spherical video really this is a sphere of video where you can choose any piece of that sphere to point at and use and that's what makes this the most versatile camera i've ever seen so this x3 is the latest version here to shoot this way it has a new half inch sensor like i said it can shoot 5.7 k 360 video with hdr or 8k time lapses if you want it has a new 2.3 inch touchscreen with tempered glass and the whole thing is waterproof up to 33 feet with an ipx8 rating with an 1800 milliamp hour removable battery inside and so then the whole insta 360 advantage the whole thing is the ability to take advantage of the fact that it's always shooting this whole sphere of video all the time so if you can picture it you're just holding a ball of 360 degree video and you can put it wherever you want so that opens up a massive world of possibilities so let me show you some of the things you can do ranging from the simplest to the craziest and most impressive so the simple one is called me mode you've probably seen this one before you can hold out the camera on a selfie stick and it tracks you and focuses on you automatically this is already kind of wild that it looks like there's just a camera floating out in front of you it can kind of look like a pseudo drone shot if you move it around over your head enough but it's basically just stitching out the selfie stick and it can export a regular looking widescreen video from a crazy perspective so then okay there's what i like to call gta mode which is basically using the extended selfie stick mounted to a vehicle so that it's basically floating off the back and thanks to tracking it has this sick like first person view of an actual car driving down an actual street you might have seen some of these shots on instagram at least i know i have i really like though this next one which is called first person mode this is something i'm actually gonna start using more on the autofocus channel that we just started because believe it or not holding a phone in one hand while driving down the highway with the other is not actually the safest thing to do so all you have to do for first person is put the camera either on your head or literally hold it in your mouth and then track the part of the sphere that faces forward and boom not only do you have a first person wide angle shot of what i'm seeing as i drive but it's super out of the way and it's very useful fun fact the other side of the sphere looks like this some people have called this nose mode you might have seen some clips like this also all over the internet but probably the craziest thing i've seen in this software is something called bullet time this is just literally swinging this camera around your head on a string so insta360 actually makes a cord just for this feature it's got a quarter twenty score at the end you connect them and you swing the camera around in slow motion and it can make some pretty sweet videos kind of an advanced selfie showing off your environment in 360 degrees so it's a pretty complex system that's very capable the craziest part of all this is that it's all edited on your phone it's all done in the insta360 app so that makes it this sort of next level of accessible i've been talking about starting youtube channel on your phone making videos on your phone you can do all this with the camera and one app on your phone and render times are not bad either so just going through a clip you shot on this camera and asking it to track something it tracks faster than real time which is sick and you can do a whole sky swap of a video clip in a few seconds it just analyzes the whole clip and then does a pretty solid convincing sky swap and if you think about it at all it is much faster much faster than any adobe app or motion graphics tool that i've tried but the whole point is any effect you want to achieve can be done within the app so whether it's something super complex like bullet time or just some simple reframing just moving around that sphere of video using keyframing and even using the gyroscope of your phone to point at new things and adjust your shot it all works very smoothly no matter what you always have the whole sphere to play with and you can move around and create a custom video of whatever angles you want super quickly you can get really creative with it so this is a 449 camera and the app on your phone and a selfie stick and that's it that's the whole system so i'm going to be adding this to the arsenal for the autofocus channel for sure there is also some accessories there's this guy which is a reader accessory so instead of having to take out the battery which is removable to get to the micro sd card you can just plug it straight into your phone and grab files that way there is also a mic jack accessory so you can plug in via usbc and then there's a mic jack so things to like sort of add a little bit of production quality to this camera that's already pretty solid on its own and there's also other smart features like loop recording which records every 30 minutes and you can use it as a dash cam so are there any weaknesses basically the only one that i've found is with a 360 setup like this with back-to-back cameras if you put the subject right on this seam like on the edge of where the two cameras are recording or it's stitching them together you can get some distortion especially if you're very close to the camera but it's pretty easy to shoot around that it's easy to change the orientation to just make sure somewhere in the sphere is the subject and then you're good so yeah realistically this is the most versatile camera i've ever seen and actually used and honestly i don't even scratch the surface of the creativity that i've seen people do with these cameras again all over my instagram feed i've seen people like throwing this around doing fake drone shots i saw somebody actually throw it off of a cliff next to somebody who was diving and it just fell into the water but of course the spear captured the person diving right next to the camera just cool stuff so naturally i'm going to be bringing this into autofocus videos first person driving shots maybe selfie stick outside of the car stuff things like that but go ahead and subscribe over there if you want to see that stuff i'll have a link below to the channel also have a link below to the camera itself and thanks again to insta360 for sponsoring this look but that's pretty much been it thanks for watching and i'll catch you guys in the next one peacethis video is sponsored by insta360. so this tiny camera has basically one great trick that makes it the most versatile camera that i've ever used so there's been action cameras and 360 cameras for a while now i've tried some on and off for a few years but insta360 asked to sponsor a look at their latest highest quality most fully featured version yet this is the x3 and i'm really glad i did so here's how it works this camera body has two half inch high resolution sensors back to back so they're each recording a super wide angle video that stretches way back actually a little beyond 180 degrees and so since each camera goes a bit beyond 180 there's a little overlap at the seams and then the camera does the work to stitch the two feeds together into one and then even better since it knows where the mounting point is it knows where a selfie stick would be and it can stitch that out of the video and then of course it knows its own exact dimension so can also stitch itself out of the shot so essentially it creates this invisible ball of 360 degree video capturing goodness which is pretty sick but honestly the how it works isn't nearly as interesting as what it actually enables you to do so check this out you pair it up to your phone right you can see what the camera is pointed at which is me and then when i start moving it it stays pointed at me so they named this flow state stabilization basically it's using ai to find a horizon and keep that level and locking on a target somewhere in that sphere of video and now you're really getting an idea of the power of this camera this isn't something you get just to shoot spherical video really this is a sphere of video where you can choose any piece of that sphere to point at and use and that's what makes this the most versatile camera i've ever seen so this x3 is the latest version here to shoot this way it has a new half inch sensor like i said it can shoot 5.7 k 360 video with hdr or 8k time lapses if you want it has a new 2.3 inch touchscreen with tempered glass and the whole thing is waterproof up to 33 feet with an ipx8 rating with an 1800 milliamp hour removable battery inside and so then the whole insta 360 advantage the whole thing is the ability to take advantage of the fact that it's always shooting this whole sphere of video all the time so if you can picture it you're just holding a ball of 360 degree video and you can put it wherever you want so that opens up a massive world of possibilities so let me show you some of the things you can do ranging from the simplest to the craziest and most impressive so the simple one is called me mode you've probably seen this one before you can hold out the camera on a selfie stick and it tracks you and focuses on you automatically this is already kind of wild that it looks like there's just a camera floating out in front of you it can kind of look like a pseudo drone shot if you move it around over your head enough but it's basically just stitching out the selfie stick and it can export a regular looking widescreen video from a crazy perspective so then okay there's what i like to call gta mode which is basically using the extended selfie stick mounted to a vehicle so that it's basically floating off the back and thanks to tracking it has this sick like first person view of an actual car driving down an actual street you might have seen some of these shots on instagram at least i know i have i really like though this next one which is called first person mode this is something i'm actually gonna start using more on the autofocus channel that we just started because believe it or not holding a phone in one hand while driving down the highway with the other is not actually the safest thing to do so all you have to do for first person is put the camera either on your head or literally hold it in your mouth and then track the part of the sphere that faces forward and boom not only do you have a first person wide angle shot of what i'm seeing as i drive but it's super out of the way and it's very useful fun fact the other side of the sphere looks like this some people have called this nose mode you might have seen some clips like this also all over the internet but probably the craziest thing i've seen in this software is something called bullet time this is just literally swinging this camera around your head on a string so insta360 actually makes a cord just for this feature it's got a quarter twenty score at the end you connect them and you swing the camera around in slow motion and it can make some pretty sweet videos kind of an advanced selfie showing off your environment in 360 degrees so it's a pretty complex system that's very capable the craziest part of all this is that it's all edited on your phone it's all done in the insta360 app so that makes it this sort of next level of accessible i've been talking about starting youtube channel on your phone making videos on your phone you can do all this with the camera and one app on your phone and render times are not bad either so just going through a clip you shot on this camera and asking it to track something it tracks faster than real time which is sick and you can do a whole sky swap of a video clip in a few seconds it just analyzes the whole clip and then does a pretty solid convincing sky swap and if you think about it at all it is much faster much faster than any adobe app or motion graphics tool that i've tried but the whole point is any effect you want to achieve can be done within the app so whether it's something super complex like bullet time or just some simple reframing just moving around that sphere of video using keyframing and even using the gyroscope of your phone to point at new things and adjust your shot it all works very smoothly no matter what you always have the whole sphere to play with and you can move around and create a custom video of whatever angles you want super quickly you can get really creative with it so this is a 449 camera and the app on your phone and a selfie stick and that's it that's the whole system so i'm going to be adding this to the arsenal for the autofocus channel for sure there is also some accessories there's this guy which is a reader accessory so instead of having to take out the battery which is removable to get to the micro sd card you can just plug it straight into your phone and grab files that way there is also a mic jack accessory so you can plug in via usbc and then there's a mic jack so things to like sort of add a little bit of production quality to this camera that's already pretty solid on its own and there's also other smart features like loop recording which records every 30 minutes and you can use it as a dash cam so are there any weaknesses basically the only one that i've found is with a 360 setup like this with back-to-back cameras if you put the subject right on this seam like on the edge of where the two cameras are recording or it's stitching them together you can get some distortion especially if you're very close to the camera but it's pretty easy to shoot around that it's easy to change the orientation to just make sure somewhere in the sphere is the subject and then you're good so yeah realistically this is the most versatile camera i've ever seen and actually used and honestly i don't even scratch the surface of the creativity that i've seen people do with these cameras again all over my instagram feed i've seen people like throwing this around doing fake drone shots i saw somebody actually throw it off of a cliff next to somebody who was diving and it just fell into the water but of course the spear captured the person diving right next to the camera just cool stuff so naturally i'm going to be bringing this into autofocus videos first person driving shots maybe selfie stick outside of the car stuff things like that but go ahead and subscribe over there if you want to see that stuff i'll have a link below to the channel also have a link below to the camera itself and thanks again to insta360 for sponsoring this look but that's pretty much been it thanks for watching and i'll catch you guys in the next one peace\n"