Yamaha Introduces a Fish Eye 360 Degree Webcam

Yamaha is now selling a new USB webcam called the PJP-CAM1 that allows 360 degree recording and video capture. This cam could be great for virtual meetings where you want to see the faces of the people you are talking to. The camera is priced at 102,900 Yen or about $845 here in the U.S.A., making this one of the most expensive web cams ever. To get multiple people around the cam into the virtual meeting, the lens is a fish eye design, which means you will have to live with some weird distortion of the video. You can however, turn the fish eye video into normal images of participants if you desire. Availability is set for late July in Japan with no word on if the cam will make it to the States. If you only need one person in the conference video, the Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision is one of the best webcams we have tested. Jump for another illustration how the PJP-CAM1 works.