Amazing 3D Video Panorama!
We’ve all seen Quicktime panoramas made by “stitching” still images. But this video offers a very different and unique experience.
Called “Spherical Storytelling,” the 360° video panorama “drives” you down New York’s infamous 42nd Street providing a “sun roof” view! Click the play button and, as the video loads, scroll with the mouse to watch in any direction within the video. Amazing!
Via Immersive Media. Requires Adobe Flash® and a broadband connection to view.
Reader Comments (7)
This is pretty awesome! If you point straight up you can watch the tops of buildings go by. Point straight down and you see the camera dome. They must be using a superwide angle lens on the vid cam. I watched a couple of the others and the medium doesn't fit as well imho. Still very cool!
Pretty neat. How can we make money with this?
There might be a use for it in law enforcement, some kind of eye-in-the-sky that could provide police with footage of crimes as they happened (???)
I can hear the privacy (secrecy) freaks now. "OMG, somebody might be watching me wash my car and mow my grass! My privacy is being violated! Call the ACLU!"
First, you get it into the public conciousness with a positive spin. Let Horatio and his Miami-Dade County CSI unit install one. Or ten (they have an unlimited budget). Then produce an episode where they "zoom in" through a bad guy's window and video him killing his girlfriend.
The CSIs would gather around their dozen giant panoramic hi-res monitors to watch. Someone would say "There, the butler with a candlestick!" Then Horatio, head cocked unnaturally down and to the side, would add "Why, yes. He shouldn't have done that." [Spin on heal, exit stage right]
TV viewing audience loves it and sales skyrocket. We retire to Barbados and live like gods.
There would have to be one of these mounted atop Horatio's Hummer. Being "Command Central" he would also be able to view on his array of dash mounted monitors everything that the other CSAs cars pick up from their rooftop cameras.
I am car sick.....