What the work involves

micro1 collects first-person and environment-scale 360° footage to train and evaluate spatial and video-understanding models. As a recorder, you receive a shot brief — for example, "twelve continuous 90-second walkthroughs of indoor retail spaces, handheld at chest height, no stitch line through the subject, mixed daylight and artificial lighting" — and go capture it. Each batch specifies resolution and frame rate, whether stabilization or reframing may be applied, how to handle bystanders and identifiable faces, and what metadata to log alongside each file.

Day to day this looks like: reading the brief, scouting a location, shooting takes, checking footage for stitch artifacts, blown highlights, lens flare across the seam and dropped frames, then exporting in the requested format and uploading with a completed capture log. Rejected clips come back with a reason, and you reshoot. Volume is the point — batches are usually tens of clips, not one hero shot.

What the screen looks for

  • Hands-on familiarity with a specific 360 rig: which camera, which firmware, what you know about its stitch line, its bitrate ceiling and its low-light behaviour.
  • Comfort with the desktop workflow — Insta360 Studio or GoPro Player, .insv/.360 handling, reframing versus keeping full equirectangular output, export settings that don't quietly re-encode away detail.
  • Willingness to follow a spec literally rather than shoot what looks best. Footage that is beautiful and off-spec is a rejection.
  • Judgment on consent and privacy in public and semi-public spaces, and honesty about locations you can and cannot legally access.

Logistics

Remote and asynchronous, with capture windows sometimes constrained by the brief (golden hour, weekday foot traffic, wet weather). You supply your own camera, mounts, cards and storage. Batches are typically paid hourly at an observed $20/hr for capture and processing time; expect to upload large files, so a stable connection with real upstream bandwidth matters more than most people assume.