AyotoCorpI've been doing a bunch of digging recently into VR recording (as in VR180/stereoscopic 3D recording), and it's really bizarre how it seems like every company had a VR180 camera in 2018 and then just totally stopped that entire development angle. Insta360? The Evo released in 2019, no successor. Vuze/Humaneyes? Dead company. Kandao? Every camera after the QooCam has been 360 only, no 180 capture.
The only current VR180 "low-cost" cameras that exist, as far as I can tell, are the Kandao QooCam Ego which isn't actually 180, just stereoscopic, and the iPhone 15 Pro, which also isn't 180 just stereoscopic. Everything else is super expensive, in the $1000s easily. Like the Canon option is an attachment for a $3000 DSLR camera.
I know the iPhone is technically also $1000 but that's besides the point.
It's just so bizarre, and it's not even like it'd be had to do for most of these companies since a lot of them have DONE IT. And with the Apple Vision Pro (and other VR headsets but the AVP is the big fancy one) being a thing, it's weird that these companies have left the gap in the market open for so long, especially since people DO use the cameras that exist for their intended purposes all the time.
Maybe it's some kind of witch's curse.