Google's new VR camera has 17 lenses and costs $17,000

http://money.cnn.com …google-yi-halo/index.html

What has 17 lenses, costs $17,000, and can make you feel like you're anywhere in the world? The YI Halo, a new virtual reality camera that runs on Google's Jump VR platform.
Made by Chinese camera company YI with Google (GOOG), the Halo shoots 4k video simultaneously on all 17 cameras. It uses Google's Jump software to stitch the footage together into a single, immersive 360-degree VR film.
Google announced the new hardware Monday, barely a week after Facebook (FB, Tech30) revealed plans for a pair of its own VR cameras: the x24 and x6.
"Cameras are hot. That's good. We planned this a while ago," Amit Singh, Google's VP of business for VR, said at a briefing with reporters in San Francisco ahead of the news release.
The YI Halo will go on sale this summer, and Google says some early partners will get rigs right away.