# facebookarchive/Surround360

Surround360 is Facebook's open source hardware and software for capturing stereoscopic 3D 360 video for VR. The repo contains hardware designs, as well as software for camera control and rendering.

Repository: https://github.com/facebookarchive/Surround360
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/surround360
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-08-30T06:22:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3726, "days_push": 2560, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2185, forks 579 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:23.665617+00:00)

## What it is
Facebook's open-source hardware and software system for capturing and rendering stereoscopic 3D 360-degree video for VR viewing. It includes camera hardware designs, a Linux desktop app for camera control, and rendering software for converting raw captures into VR-ready formats.

## Use cases
- build a stereoscopic 3D 360 camera for VR
- render raw 360 camera captures into VR-ready video
- control a multi-camera rig to record 360 footage
- study open hardware designs for VR camera rigs
- test 360 rendering pipelines with sample datasets

## When to choose
- you want to build or operate a stereoscopic 360 camera rig for VR content
- you need reference software for stitching and rendering 3D 360 video
- you want open hardware designs plus matching capture and render software

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates and support
- you only need simple 360 video stitching from consumer cameras
- you are not prepared to build custom hardware or work with raw binary capture formats

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, image-processing, computer-vision, gui
- domain: computer-vision, graphics, hardware, media
- platform: cpp
- tags: 360-video, vr, stereoscopic-3d, camera-hardware, open-hardware, facebook-archive, video, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- facebookarchive/Surround360 (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.665617+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:48:11.434188+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/facebookarchive/Surround360 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.665617+00:00, sha ab773621f615)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.