The Fusion's USP is familiarity. It is a GoPro through and through. GoPro Fusion also works great as an handheld device thanks to its stabilization algorithm. However, it does not natively stitch videos and needs an app on a PC to pull that off.

Just shy of a year ago GoPro announced initial details around their consumer-oriented 360° action camera, Fusion. But it wouldn't be until this past November that the company started shipping the $699 dual-lens unit. Since then I've been using the camera in a surprising variety of ways.

GoPro may have jump started the action camera market , but the Fusion is different than all the GoPros that came before it: it's a true 360 camera. Instead of using a single forward-facing lens, its two ultra-wide angle lenses capture a full 360 spherical image of everything around it.