360 degree drive across Manhattan
This is way too cool. Everybody has already seen the 360 deg photos (such as this brilliant stuff by my friend Julius), where you can pan across the static screen. Here comes the next level - 360 deg pan video! You can pan it when it's playing, you can pan it when it's paused.
"Popular Mechanics takes a ride in an Immersive Media VW Beetle, one of the six cars that drives around America shooting images for Google Maps Street View. Mounted on the roof is the $45,000 Dodeca 2360 video camera, whose 11 lenses record a 360 degree field of view at 30 frames per second, sucking up as many as 200 miles of city scenes per day. The setup takes up the whole back seat and part of the front passenger seat, and is all controlled with an off-the-shelf Logitech game controller. Includes a cool interactive raw video of a drive through Manhattan."More such videos here.
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