@GeekOnTheHill if I understood you correctly, you are referring to the yaw correction as mentioned above - this is done in Fusion Studio pre-rendering to point the centre of the image in the direction of travel (let’s all hope mapillary devs find a way to read gopro compass exif and we don’t have to do it…)
finally got round to rendering a test sequence. Have to say Fusion Studio doesn’t make it terribly obvious how to export time-lapses in jpeg.
Cropping out unwanted parts of the image was fairly easy and seems to have cut image size by 90% for 10% on the nadir - I cut myself out, and mapillary stitching on the nadir is a bit funny now, but seems ok otherwise.
As feared, a consumer 360 camera has disgusting image quality, and I plan to be doing 360 shots only for general direction awareness. Pilot Era might be interesting with 8k, but prices for 360 cameras shooting good images (and mostly not even having an on board location chip) are too high - even used Insta Pros are like 2k, without the GPS dongle. I could be ranting about this for a while…
Otherwise, the Fusion seems like the best Mapillary 360 camera, almost plug and play