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Another huge innovation which is more about software than hardware is the new circular video format: you can rotate your phone and the video keeps its orientation.

Quite impressive, you have to see it in action:

https://twitter.com/ow/status/779592486461313025




A significant part of the recorded video in that demo is always off screen. If you fit it to the screen, it will be circular. This doesnt really seem to solve anything.


Little humble brag, but here is a CodePen demo I made a little more than a year ago with a similar idea in mind:

http://codepen.io/bennettfeely/details/pjgrRL?preview_height...


Why is this innovative? Can't you just zoom in the video to get the same effect




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