Why use an Insta360 instead of your instrumented rig?

Everyday routines need breadth: many homes, many people, many real environments. A head-worn Insta360 goes anywhere a contributor is willing to wear it, which is what makes weekly volume possible. The instrumented rig stays the right choice when a program needs depth, wrist views and hardware sync.

How many videos can you deliver?

The Insta360 routine program delivers 1,000 videos a week, in weekly batches that each carry their own metadata, consent records and reject log.

What does the footage look like?

A first-person circular fisheye image circle from the 360 camera, rather than the rectilinear frame of the instrumented head camera. Each clip is labelled as 360 tier in its metadata so you can filter on tier rather than infer it.

Does the 360 tier include depth or hand pose?

No. It is single-stream RGB. It gives up depth, wrist views and sub-millisecond sync in exchange for reach. If you need those streams, the instrumented rig captures them on one clock.

How is privacy handled in people’s homes?

Contributors sign releases before capture, and faces, plates and screens are detected and irreversibly blurred at ingest, confirmed by a reviewer before anything ships.

You do. Every delivery ships under a perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license with the consent chain and data card attached.

Egocentric custom collection · Insta360

Everyday routines, first-person, on Insta360 head mounts.

Contributors wear an Insta360 on a head strap and run real routines in their own homes and workplaces — cooking, tidying, laundry, restocking. You get the eye-line view a head-mounted robot camera sees from, delivered at 1,000 videos a week.

Throughput: 1,000 videos / week
Camera: Insta360 head mount
Content: Everyday routines
License: Buyer-owned

A contributor wearing a compact dual-lens 360 camera clipped to a quick-release buckle on an elastic head strap, positioned above the forehead.

Why Insta360

Light enough to wear through a whole routine, anywhere.

Everyday routines only look real when they happen in real places. A head-worn Insta360 goes wherever a contributor is willing to wear it, so capture happens in lived-in kitchens, living rooms and shop floors rather than a staged set — and it scales to many homes and people every week.

1,000videos delivered
every week

Case studies

Head-mount routine programs in the field.

Anonymized engagements. Buyers are described by type, not name, and each program ran on Insta360 head mounts.

A home kitchen counter with dishes, a cutting board and a sink, the kind of scene recorded in a household routine session.

01Humanoid robotics team

Kitchen and household routines for a home-assistant humanoid

Unloading a dishwasher
Wiping counters
Putting groceries away
Loading a washing machine

Setup: Contributors wore an Insta360 on an elastic head strap in their own homes and ran each routine start to finish, unscripted, from the eye-line a head-mounted robot camera sees from.
Delivered: Weekly batches of full-routine videos, faces and screens blurred at ingest, each clip tagged with the 360 capture tier, routine name and home environment.

A lived-in living room with a sofa, shelves and scattered objects, typical of an everyday tidying routine.

02Foundation model team

Everyday tidying and living-space routines at breadth

Tidying a living room
Folding laundry
Making a bed
Sorting and shelving objects

Setup: Broad household diversity was the goal, so the lighter head-worn 360 tier was chosen over the instrumented rig to reach many more homes and contributors per week.
Delivered: A steady weekly flow of routine videos with consent releases, a reject log and a data card, under a buyer-owned commercial license.

A workshop bench with hand tools and parts laid out, the setting for a workplace routine session.

03Embodied AI research lab

Workplace and shop-floor routines in real environments

Restocking shelves
Sorting parts at a bench
Packing and labelling boxes
Basic tool handling

Setup: Sessions ran in real workplaces with permission from the site, and bystanders were handled under the same detect-and-blur pass used on every dataset.
Delivered: Routine videos segmented by task, delivered on a weekly cadence with per-clip environment and routine metadata.

How it ships

How 1,000 videos a week get to you.

The same spec-first pipeline as every custom collection, tuned for a lighter camera and a weekly cadence.

01Routine specYou list the routines, environments and contributor mix. We turn it into a written spec with accept and reject criteria you approve first.
02Head-mount kitsContributors are briefed and wear an Insta360 on a quick-release head strap, recording routines in their own homes and workplaces.
03Ingest and blurEvery clip is checked against the spec, and faces, plates and screens are blurred before anything moves forward.
04Weekly deliveryAccepted videos ship in weekly batches — 1,000 videos a week — with metadata, consent records and the reject log.

Volume: 1,000 videos a week
Capture: Insta360 head mount, first-person everyday routines
Privacy: Faces, plates and screens detected and irreversibly blurred at ingest, reviewer-confirmed
Consent: Signed contributor releases in the consent chain
Metadata: Capture tier, routine, environment per clip
Documentation: Data card and visible reject log
License: Perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license

What every weekly batch includes

Capture tiers

Insta360 head mount vs. the instrumented rig.

Two tiers, labelled in the metadata. Pick the Insta360 for routines at breadth; pick the rig when you need depth, wrist views and sync.

Attribute	Insta360 head mount	Instrumented rig
Camera	Insta360 dual-lens 360 on an elastic head strap	Head-mounted global-shutter 4K + dual wrist cameras
Streams	Single-stream RGB (circular fisheye image circle)	Video, depth, IMU and hand pose on one clock
Where it runs	Anywhere a contributor is willing to wear it	Sessions set up around the rig
Best for	Everyday routines at breadth and weekly volume	Deep 3D hand pose, contact and multi-stream sync
Tier label	Marked as 360 tier in episode metadata	Marked as instrumented tier in episode metadata

The full rig bill of materials is on the capture rig overview, and broader first-person capture is covered on egocentric video collection. Privacy handling is detailed on anonymization and consent on provenance.

FAQ

Insta360 routine collection, answered.

Why use an Insta360 instead of your instrumented rig?: Everyday routines need breadth: many homes, many people, many real environments. A head-worn Insta360 goes anywhere a contributor is willing to wear it, which is what makes weekly volume possible. The instrumented rig stays the right choice when a program needs depth, wrist views and hardware sync.
How many videos can you deliver?: The Insta360 routine program delivers 1,000 videos a week, in weekly batches that each carry their own metadata, consent records and reject log.
What does the footage look like?: A first-person circular fisheye image circle from the 360 camera, rather than the rectilinear frame of the instrumented head camera. Each clip is labelled as 360 tier in its metadata so you can filter on tier rather than infer it.
Does the 360 tier include depth or hand pose?: No. It is single-stream RGB. It gives up depth, wrist views and sub-millisecond sync in exchange for reach. If you need those streams, the instrumented rig captures them on one clock.
How is privacy handled in people’s homes?: Contributors sign releases before capture, and faces, plates and screens are detected and irreversibly blurred at ingest, confirmed by a reviewer before anything ships.
Who owns the data?: You do. Every delivery ships under a perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license with the consent chain and data card attached.

Tell us the routines. We'll put them on head mounts.

Send the routines, environments and contributor mix you need. You approve a written spec first, then batches arrive at 1,000 videos a week under a buyer-owned license.

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