it has a little Lcd screen with very practical info needed, more than just a couple of led lights on the Theta

Even with perfect lighting and tuning the quality is very low resolution.

However, you also have to try to find a good balance on light, as you will notice a lens flare if lighting is brighter from one direction

The negatives are the noticeably lower video resolution, very bright lights (a pain in darker conditions, like, say, Walt Disney World inside rides) and fixed 8GB memory

You will get far better images, with less blocking in the shadows, if you can capture your images and video in bright light.

In daylight and well lighted evening scenes the camera performed well.

The negatives are the noticeably lower video resolution, very bright lights (a pain in darker conditions, like, say, Walt Disney World inside rides) and fixed 8GB memory

Between the middling picture quality in anything but ideal lighting, and the lack of any single universal storage, sharing and viewing standard, the idea of entrusting precious memories to this device is just a little too frightening for me

In a high contrast situation, like being indoors with light coming through a window, the light illuminates the structure supporting the lens - which consists of several concentric rings, and is reflected in the lens cover and is imaged as rings in the worldview (or stripes in panorama).

Attached pictures are examples how blurry it looks with words, how bright light has to be lined up and the last one is the split in the "Front" facing camera during a shaky seen as during playback

The camera quality is decent in good light, no so great in low light

Yes, there are some issues with the lights being hard to see in bright lighting (just use the audio cues), and the low-light performance is bad (but not a lot worse than the Gear 360's)

Edit (same day): I just took and added a photo from my workplace, where one lens was facing the outside (snowy day, not especially bright) and the other was facing the well lit (but warmer light) interior

Night video isn't that great, so you have to bump the ISO limit up for there to be enough light (like at Disneyland at night), and that will introduce noise into the video

Otherwise you'll likely end up with the wrong light setting most of the time.

and I may very well do this as a general rule of thumb

Photos aren't as clean as I