![]() The lack of a good mounting spot in my convertible meant holding the rear camera by hand. Note that I was holding the rear camera in my hand, as there’s no place to mount it with a convertible top. The quality of the 720p rear captures is certainly adequate for legal purposes and are playable in a normal video player without undo fish-eye distortion in evidence. That said, most cars have significantly larger rear windows. You’ll see far less out the back window with the 360 degree camera because of headrests and roof pillars. The quality of the day video is quite decent, given the amount of processing that must be performed. In a convertible, you can see just about everything around you with the 360-degree camera. That, and the distortion from the rear windows, are the reasons that a second camera is included. There are screen captures with the top up as well, to show you how roof pillars will obstruct some areas. I left the top down during much of my testing to give you a better idea of just what the v360 can cover. Even so, it captured more than enough of the surroundings and interior coverage to be legally useful–during the day, at any rate. The major issue for me was that the windshield in my Mazda Miata isn’t very tall, so I couldn’t mount the camera as high as I’d have liked to. Though I went in a doubting Thomas, the quality and coverage of the 360-degree camera turned out much better than I anticipated. It’s a one-time deal, not as annoying as it would be on a daily basis. The plus/minus icons are so close to the actual fields that I found myself accidentally changing the wrong value several times. As the V360 lacks GPS (there’s no means to add it either), I had to set the date and time manually. ![]() There’s no endless menu diving, as with most interfaces. I particularly enjoyed that nearly all the options are available from one screen. The onscreen interface is great, and despite the relatively small text, it’s easy to read due to the high resolution. The power button is on the lower left side, and as there’s a touch display on board, nothing else is required. ![]() The top of the main unit is home to the mini-USB port the 3.5mm, three-ring, mini-AV input for the rear camera and the SD Card slot. The installation file for the VeeSee player can also be downloaded from the Rexing site, but that version failed on the two computers I tried it on. It’s placed in a exe folder when you first format a SDHC card (not included). Rexing is rather clever about delivering said VeSeeGo player. You can see in the image above why a special desktop player is required. On the touchscreen, and with the special VeSeeGo video player that’s required to view the 360-degree captures on the desktop, the V360 displays video in several ways: wide (panoramic) ball (with full force fish-eye) split top and bottom showing the front and the rear and quartered, covering all four quadrants. You will not get this kind of coverage with a top or roof in place. Note that this was taken in a convertible with the top down. This is what the 360-degree camera’s output looks like if you don’t use the included (placed on your SDHC card when you format it) VeSeeGo player.
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