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- Hey guys, what's going on?
Seth here from REtipster.com.
In this video I'm gonna show you this little gadget
I bought about a month ago called the Rylo 360 camera.
The reason I got this and the reason I want to tell you
about it is because I've had a few friends
who are like house flippers or real estate agents
and they think that this kind of thing is really, really
helpful to have in a trade.
And it's basically a 360 camera.
So you can essentially take this thing and hold it up
any which way, it doesn't matter where it's facing.
The idea is to just walk through a property,
maybe inside, maybe outside, maybe around it
just to give a good 360 view of everything
the property has to offer from a visual standpoint.
And I think there's a couple reasons why this
kind of thing could be helpful.
First of all it's kind of idiot-proof.
I mean as long as you're smart enough to know how
to turn it on and then push the button again to record
it and then push the button again to stop it,
that's all you have to do.
Like you don't have to make sure you're pointing it
at just the right angle or anything like that
because it gets everything.
So I mean pretty much anywhere you go
it's gonna pick up the image
and then you can edit it afterwards.
And that's the other cool thing about it is that there's
a little short cord that plugs into this end
and the other end plugs into your phone.
It works with either an iPhone or an Android
and Rylo has a really, really good app,
makes it really, really easy to edit the video
so you can make the view of the video point
in any direction you want or you can make it track
on certain objects.
And, I mean really, you just like push on the screen
where you want it to point as you're walking
around the property it'll do that.
So this thing also has phenomenal stabilization
which basically means as you're walking
around a property or through a property it's not gonna
have like shaky footage.
And the reason it's able to do this is because you're
getting a 360 view of everything and because the software
is able to level out any micro-jitters
that are in the video footage.
And I know if you were to use like a DSLR camera,
or even an iPhone, those cameras are getting better
from the standpoint of having stabilization in them
but I still don't think they're quite as good as this.
You can actually spend hundreds of dollars
to buy Gimbals and stabilizers
for those more expensive cameras.
But with this thing the stabilization is just built
right into the software so no matter what you do
it's gonna be pretty smooth looking footage.
And I think this kind of thing was actually designed,
I don't know this for a fact, but I think it was designed
for action and thrill-seekers in mind,
like kind of an alternative to a GoPro camera
because that's kind of what the look and feel
of this footage looks like.
It has like that wide-angle sort of curve look
to it which I'll talk about in just a second.
But I think this kind of thing is cool for that.
It's not necessarily built for real estate professionals
but it still can be used in the real estate industry.
If you have a need for doing property tours,
maybe doing inspections, and you can't be at the property
but somebody else can and they can just walk
through the property with this thing for you
and you can get a 360 view of everything.
Or if you want to use this kind of thing
to create really informative property listing
videos, or again, you can just set this thing up,
it'll take the video and then the buyers in your market
that are looking at your listing, they can just
look around the room because all you have to do
is upload this kind of video to YouTube
and it will allow people to do that, where you can just
like scroll around the video and see whatever it is
that you want to see.
Now with all that said I think there's also
a few things worth noting that I actually don't like
that much about this camera.
And the first one is the thing is kind of expensive.
It's like 500 bucks at the time
of this recording anyway.
There's definitely cameras out there
that are a lot more than 500 bucks.
So it's not like it's ridiculous but after having used
this thing for about a month now and shooting several
different videos and seeing what it can do
I'm not sure if it's worth 500 bucks honestly.
Like if I had to buy this thing again I'd probably
look for a used one on eBay or something like that.
I'd probably be willing to pay like 300,
maybe, maybe 400 but 500, I don't know.
It's kind of up there.
I'm not sure it's like worth that price point
but it can still be helpful.
It helps from like the idiot-proof standpoint
in that it doesn't matter what you're pointing
the camera at, so you can give this to somebody
who's pretty incompetent with a camera,
and the footage will still come out pretty good in the end.
The other thing I noticed about this camera
is that I don't think it's necessarily
what you call a low light camera because when I was
shooting some video clips on the interior
of a few different houses I noticed that the footage
came out a little grainy, like this thing
wasn't necessarily meant to be shot in situations
where there's not a lot of natural or even artificial light.
If you are gonna get one of these things just make sure
that there's plenty of light.
If you're shooting things outside it's probably
just gonna take care of itself unless you're shooting
at like night time or something.
So just make sure you're shooting either
during the day time or if you're shooting
an interior shot make sure you got every possible window
open, make sure you turn on every possible light
'cause this camera is gonna need that light
in order to show the best possible footage.
The other thing I can say about this camera
is that it definitely has a wide-angle look to it
which, you know, is kind of a given since
it's a 360 camera and that's the only way
it can possibly see everything is by having
a super wide angle to it.
But one of the trade-offs with having a super wide
angle lens like that is that it sort of distorts
things on the outside edge of a frame.
And what I mean by that is like whenever you see something
that's supposed to be a straight line,
like a window or a door or the corner of a wall
or something like that, the closer it gets
to the edge of the frame it's gonna start
to look like curved and warped a little bit
which isn't necessarily what you want.
And when you want to really understand and get the best
perspective of what a property looks like seeing
that kind of distortion and warping,
I mean it's just not really necessarily helpful.
I don't think it's like a deal killer but I think
if you were to use a higher end mirrorless
or DSLR camera, kind of like the one I'm shooting
this video on right now, you wouldn't get nearly as much
or any of that kind of warping of straight lines.
I don't know if warping or distortion are the right words
to use for that but you get the point,
you know what I mean.
I will say, from just like an ease of use perspective,
the camera's super easy to use and just the feel of it,
it feels like there's a really good built quality to it.
Literally there's just one button on the thing
so it's kind of hard to mess anything up.
The app is really easy to use, as well,
and it works pretty good.
I think the last time I checked it had
a good rating in the App store so they did
a pretty good job with that.
So is thing a necessity if you're
a real estate professional?
Absolutely not, I don't think so.
But is it cool and fun and can it be helpful
in certain situations?
Say if you're like investing remotely
and you can't get to the property yourself
but you want to have a good visual inspection
of the property you could give
somebody one of these things
or if they already have one they could go
and do that inspection for you.
Or again, say if you're like trying to sell a property
and you want to give your buyers a really, really
good look at the property as though they're actually
standing on it themselves you can go ahead set this thing
up on a tripod, hit record, walk away
for a few minutes and then come back.
Do a few different shots of that in different rooms
of the house, or say if you're doing a vacant lot,
you could do it from different corners of the property
just so people can get a really good idea
of what the property is like onsite.
And that's something you can't really do with any
kind of a tool other than this kind of thing.
So, again, not a necessity but it could be kind of helpful
depending on what you need it for.
And just to be clear Rylo is not paying me
to talk about this thing.
I actually reached out to them to ask if I could
get a free one of these things so I could
do this review and they said no.
But I still wanted to do it anyway
so I went out and bought one.
So it's not like I'm getting paid to talk about this
and I don't get paid if you buy anything.
I just think it's worth knowing about
because for some people in some situations
it could be kind of helpful.
I just wanted to share that with you guys.
Hope you're doing well.
I'll talk to you next time.
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