Patrick Yen, well-known from http://fakemustaches.org/ and more recently as part of the team that put together this stunning package, http://www.americandiversityproject.org/ has done all of us a a huge service by sharing this awesome tutorial. This is a 38 minute tutorial, produced for MultimediaShooter.com, it's 134 MB and worth every second of your time if you [...]
Patrick Yen, well-known from http://fakemustaches.org/ and more recently as part of the team that put together this stunning package, http://www.americandiversityproject.org/ has done all of us a a huge service by sharing this awesome tutorial. This is a 38 minute tutorial, produced for MultimediaShooter.com, it's 134 MB and worth every second of your time if you are into making one of these cool video 'panos' I'm trying it this weekend! Link, here. and all the sources files, here:
http://www.patrickyen.com/skate360/360.swf
http://www.patrickyen.com/skate360/master.swf
http://www.patrickyen.com/skate360/audio.mp3
http://www.patrickyen.com/skate360/master.fla
http://www.patrickyen.com/skate360/360.fla
NOTE: Head-gear not required!
enjoy, and tnxs Patrick!
-r
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Bob Croslin sent me a link on APAD’s discussion board
to this cool 360 video panoramic that MSNBC produced after Katrina:
http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/tour.html?roadzoom13btn3
Their video is seamless because it isn’t stitched together.
An article they published on how they made this can be read here:
http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/2005/11/you_write_the_c.html
Apparently the equipment they used had a cost of over $15,000.
I wonder if the cost has decreased since then.
The ‘poor man’ process I used is not nearly as proper but can be accomplished with less than $2000 of equipment and software (at student discounted prices).
Another somewhat related link of interest is “Wild Sanctuary” which allows you to listen to various kinds of ambient noise on Google Maps or Google Earth.
Also it will be interesting to see if Microsoft begins incorporating stitched panoramic video into their cool newPhotosynth system.
Photosynth’s architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas presented a demo on this technology at TED which can be viewed at:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Thanks!
-patrick