Cool Camera / What Is It?

[MasterBlaster]

What type of camera does this? Be sure to go fullscreen, it's pretty neat.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I don't think that the camera itself is particularly unusual, but it is mounted on a special set-up with a short focus lens directed upon mirrors mounted over it that reflect the 360 degree view of the room. Then special software is used to correct the distortion and process the image so that you can view it with your mouse..

 

[JamesTX]

Pretty cool, but looking at the guys computer/tv/video game/music-studio setup - I get the idea he needs to get out more often.

 

[lumberjack]

And buy a chair.

It's similar to how Google does the "walking down the street" stuff.

 

[Mr. Sir]

Real estate companies use this a lot to show virtual tours of homes for sale.

 

[gf beranek]

Twenty years ago this kind of imaging was only thought of. And here it is today.

about the only way it could get better would be to zoom infinitely into every nook and cranny.

Wont be long til that happens.

 

[sawinredneck]

We did this twenty years ago in high school. Minus the computer.
It's called a panoramic picture. You use a tripod and measure off the degrees around 360, take picutes all the way around, then expose a larg peice of film to the negatives, lining them up and blocking off the rest of the film.
It was a project we did in photography class.
Now days you do the same, take pictures around the 360, then edit them with a computer to create the virtual tour.

 

[Tree Reb]

I don't know what I did, but this popped up. http://flashpanoramas.com/player/

Maybe that's how he did it.

 

[treetx]

Wow! That is pretty cool. I getthe feeling that guy doesn't have a tan..... or a date...... ever!