what's up guys my name is jake rich i'm
a travel filmmaker and content creator
from australia
and i'm part of the gopro family and
today i wanted to share with you an
exciting opportunity that gopro have for
everyday gopro users like you and i to
be involved in the future
engineering of gopro now if you haven't
already heard about it
it's called gopro labs and it's access
to a very simple platform
it takes less than a minute to install
so today in this video
i'm going to run you through exactly how
to get set up with gopro labs on
your gopro if you have a gopro hero 7
black
8 black 9 black or gopro max gopro labs
is available on
all of these devices i'm also going to
run you through some unique use cases
some ways that gopro have already
used gopro labs to engineer some of the
key features that you see
on the current here and i buy
all right first things first let's get
gopro labs set up on your gopro
head to the link in the description and
download the appropriate camera firmware
that corresponds to your camera and
whilst the firmware is downloading
grab the sd card from your camera and
insert it into your computer
unzip the downloaded firmware the folder
should be titled update drag and drop
this entire folder onto your camera's sd
card reinsert the sd card and the camera
firmware will begin
updating automatically once updated your
camera will display the following
message
and to install any of the settings found
on the gopro labs website
simply point your camera towards the
generated qr code and the settings
should install
instantly if you've already read the
article on the inside line on gopro's
website you may already be across this
first unique use case but i wanted to
start here
because it's an incredible feat from
gopro's own david newman
72 hours before the launch of a resupply
mission to the international
space station gopro's very own david
newman worked with a team from northrop
gunman corp to set up a series of gopro
hero8 cameras
using the gopro lab firmware they set
the gopro cameras to power on
just minutes before the launch and start
recording automatically all configured
with a single qr code
many days in advance from what was once
an experiment in beta using gopro labs
firmware on the hero8 black is now a
permanent feature
called scheduled capture as seen on the
hero9 black now this next case is super
exciting for you research scientists or
camera nerds out there
that have been looking for an affordable
way to use your camera as a
camera trap using gopro labs
gopro can recognize differences in what
the lens sees to start
and stop recording if using the gopro
hero 9 you can also
use this feature in conjunction with
hindsight so once the camera detects
motion
and recognizes that action is happening
it will automatically
start to record if using hindsight on
the hero 9
you'll be able to capture up to 30
seconds of footage before the recording
begins
enabling that you don't miss any of the
action there's a range of sensitivity
between
1 and 9 with 1 being the least and 9
being most sensitive and a defined
recording time in seconds to continue
recording after the last movement was
detected
also if you're wondering about this epic
snow leopard clip it was captured by
gopro family member philip matthini
in conjunction with the vanishing
treasures program and the un
environment's
wild for life campaign have you ever
thought about capturing a storm
or wanted to prolong the length of your
time lapse
now using gopro labs you can
gopro labs firmware allows you to create
long time lapses just using the internal
battery alone by powering off the camera
in between photos whilst also supporting
intervals beyond 60 seconds
so a fully charged gopro hero 8 can take
around 400 photos
which you can spread over several hours
or several days
just like this decaying melon that was
captured on a hero black over the course
of a week now i kind of been the only
person that's ever lost
one of their gopros and just hope that
some kind person
that finds it would return it now this
next use case is quite simply a way to
apply owner information embedded into
the camera itself
using gopro labs you can add up to three
lines of text to be displayed for about
a second
every time the camera is powered on
owner information is written to both the
sd card
and the camera itself guys thank you for
checking out this video
head down below if you want to learn
about some more custom use cases or
if you want to just learn more about
gopro labs that's it for me
jr peace