Predator VX360 Action Camera for Extreme Sports

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If you’re into extreme sports and you’re looking to capture video for posterity, or just to show off to your mates, you’ll need a rugged video camera that can take a good few knock and that, ideally, is waterproofed and, to that end, you could opt for such as the previously featured Oregon Scientific ATC3K Waterproof ‘Action Cam’ Video Camera or, if you have rather more in the why of disposable income, perhaps the Predator VX360 Action Camera may appeal.

The Predator VX360 Action Camera, which is billed as being ‘the world’s first fully wearable, waterproof, on-the-fly controllable digital video system designed specifically for the adventure sports market’ and which has been developed by MotionTouch, takes the form of an Eyeball camera which can be either helmet mounted or worn on the arm (the required mounting brackets and quick-release neoprene arm band are bundled with the camera, incidentally) and along with offering shock and impact resistance additionally boasts waterproofing to depths of up to three meters.

In terms of video capture capabilities, the Predator VX360, which utilises a Sony Super HAD CCD sensor, will happily record in both VGA (640 x 480) and what the company term as ‘TV quality’ resolutions at up to 30 frames per second (actually 24fps if recording in VGA) with footage being recorded directly DS or SDHC memory cards courtesy of an integrated memory card slot with an 8GB memory card offering up to hours of video footage. And, if you wish to review recorded footage whilst ‘on location’ the inclusion of a 2.4” color LCD display will doubtless be welcomed.

The Predator VX360 Action Camera comes supplied with, amongst other things, a removable UV filter/lens protector, the aforementioned mounting brackets and aerm band, a USB cable, Splitscene video editing software and, helpfully, a 2GB SD card go get you going straight out of the box, however, in coming in at around $892 it’s far from cheap – especially when you judge it against the likes of the above mentioned ATC3K from Oregon Scientific (which is considerably cheaper).