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Found Footage: iPod Panorama

I stumbled across this video on YouTube, which shows a cool panoramic scrolling effect on an iPod. It comes from website Ben+Marc, which offers a complete write up on how they created the effect. They set up a camera on a tripod and took a series of pictures, snapping each one with about a 5 to 10% overlap to build a 360-degree revolution. After, on their computer, they edited the photos to create the near-seamless joins. Cool stuff. Enjoy the video.



I stumbled across this video on YouTube, which shows a cool panoramic scrolling effect on an iPod. It comes from website Ben+Marc, which...
 

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Akila Ninomiya@QTVR Diary

I'm publishing "VR Podcast" on my weblog "QTVR Diary".
These m4v movie for iPod are made from small QTVR(320x240px) thourgh the software "QTVR2MOV".

December 27 2006 at 11:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Looks more like a 95% overlap to me (i.e. shot 2 is only very slightly different to shot 1). Quite effective result though.

December 21 2006 at 2:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Metryq

For those interested in a more serious VR tool than Photoshop's stitcher, check out Kekus Digital's Calico.

http://www.kekus.com/
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

December 21 2006 at 12:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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