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360 video

Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:11 AM by Will Femia

Wow, check it out, the media team has published 360 degree video tours of parts of the Mississippi coast.  Note that's not a 360 photo, it's video that plays and you can look around and point the camera where you want.

It can be a bit of a drain on the computer's resources, but it's really cool to play with.

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Me again - just wanted to comment on your new setup:  yesterday any and all links would open up within the same browser - today the links open up on a new page.   I prefer the opening of a new page - makes it easier to speed read then close out without losing my place so that I can go through "clicked" in record time and then return to my proper location at the whipping post.    I also really appreciate the NSFW tags; I often have people milling about around me and due to my work with the elderly, it just would not due to have one of my older gents hyperventilate at the sight of something salacious.  

Laura M. Lane, Poughkeepsie, NY (Sent Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:12 AM)

The concept is great. The speed of the videos is too slow/boring, but with time better camera-people will do this and it will be cool.
Now, when can we get a 360deg lens for our video cameras? Think of the possibilities when some variant of YouTube has this with travel video and so on. Even live webcams could get interesting when placed in a central location somewhere.

Paul Kimelman, Alamo, CA (Sent Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:26 AM)

Paul, I've not seen it, but I've heard that this camera is more of a contraption than a simple lens.  They talk about the producer wearing it on his head, attached to a helmet.  Maybe I missed the joke, but I think they're serious about that.

Will Femia (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:24 AM)

I've seen one of these cameras, about 3 years ago actually, here at the University of Southern California. The camera sat on a tripod and I don't recall it moving while it recorded I think it's probably multiple lenses or something... but we stood around it and I've seen the video result and we can spin it around etc.

Janna Smith, Los Angeles, CA (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:31 AM)

When you're watching one of the 360 degree videos, you can click the small link on the bottom right that says "How We Did This" and it shows pictures of the guy wearing the "helmet cam."  
Watching the video where the county lawyer shows us around inside his destroyed home, the possible uses of the technology that pop into my head are for real estate (how cool would it be to get such a great tour of the home without even having to go to it?) and for tourist attractions (save lots of money by watching a 360 degree tour of the Sistene Chapel, instead). :-)

Marcos, Lenexa, KS. (Sent Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:58 AM)



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