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Street View on steroids

posted by lxnyce on Thursday January 10, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the Wow-that's-cool dept.
Visual Simulation
Christian Spanring's blog has an entry in it with nothing but a link to this interesting use of a panoramic camera. It looks like they captured live action 360 degree panorama movies, and playing them back in a flash control (using papervision 3D engine). The result is a movie where you can see the action from any angle. Pretty neat, give it a go with the link from his website.

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  • Street luge

    (Score:1, Interesting)
    by Anonymous Voxel on Thursday January 10, @08:06PM (#2133)
    I saw a 360 video a while ago. Attached to a street luge it had sound too so you could hear the crowd fade in and out as you shot passed them, and they were louder if you looked in their direction.
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    • Re:Street luge

      (Score:3, Interesting)
      by lxnyce (1043) on Friday January 11, @11:57AM (#2137)
      ( http://www.vizure.com/ )
      They have something similar in there with the football scene. I don't know think it had 3D sound, but this could be a new form of video viewing. Of course it would be nice if movies could come like this, but I see it being a huge pain for special effects, now that every possible angle has to be covered.

      At least CG movies can take advantage of this tech, and produce films which provide a massive experience to the user, in that they can explore the movie from any angle.
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