Published July 26, 2026 | Version v1

360-Degree Camera Comparison Dataset: Spatial Video and Audio Recordings from Five Devices (AMBIENT project)

  • 1. University of Oslo

Description

Original recordings and derived audio from a five-device 360-degree camera comparison (GoPro MAX, Insta360 X3, Garmin VIRB 360, Ricoh Theta S, Zoom H3-VR) recorded at RITMO, University of Oslo, on 18 December 2023.

This dataset supports these papers:

  • Guo, Riaz & Jensenius (SMC 2024), 'Comparing Four 360-Degree Cameras for Spatial Video Recording and Analysis'
  • Riaz, Guo & Jensenius (2025), 'Comparing Spatial Audio Recordings from Commercially Available 360-degree Video Cameras'.

Includes original device files, losslessly extracted per-device audio (action sequence and room ambience), light-intensity clips from the dimmer experiment, setup photographs, and checksums.

Analysis code: github.com/fourMs/ambient

Notes

Recorded in the fourMs motion-capture lab. Earlier takes (recordings1/recordings2) available from the authors on request. ORCID iDs to be added by the depositor before publishing.

Files

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Conference paper: https://zenodo.org/records/14339096 (URL)
Software: https://github.com/fourMs/ambient (URL)
Book chapter: 10.1007/978-3-031-97254-6_12 (DOI)