Showing posts with label Panorama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panorama. Show all posts

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Ball-camera that you toss in the air for a 360° panorama

Ball-camera that you toss in the air for a 360° panorama:




Jonas Pfiel's "Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera" sports 36 cameras and contains firmware that stitches their output together to form a global panorama; you throw it into the air and at the top of its arc, it takes a snap and processes it.




(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)









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Friday, October 14, 2011

Panoramic ball camera gives a full 360-view of you nervously throwing it in the air (video)

Panoramic ball camera gives a full 360-view of you nervously throwing it in the air (video):


Yes, it isn't the first ball camera we've seen, nor is it the first camera to hawk 360-degree panoramas. But, the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera marries these two concepts together, and packs them into a sturdy-looking sphere made mostly of foam. This shields the 36 fixed-focus phone camera modules, each capable of taking two megapixel snapshots. These are then stitched together to create full panoramic works like the shot above. Somewhere within that squishy core is an accelerometer to measure the apex of its flight, and where the camera array will capture its image. The big question is, can it survive a few rounds of keepie-uppie? You can take a closer look at the ball camera's 36 x two megapixel images in the video below. Now, do you think there's any chance of getting one for the next Engadget meet-up?
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Top Gun: new 360-degree flight simulator for fighter jet pilots unveiled

Top Gun: new 360-degree flight simulator for fighter jet pilots unveiled:



Geert Matthys, research and development manager at Barco, a Belgian company specializing in high-definition projectors and displays, gives an explanation inside a fully immersive 360-degree flight simulator in Kuurne October 11, 2011. Barco has unveiled what company executives claim is the ultimate fighter jet training tool designed to reproduce reality exactly as a pilot sees it. The dome is the first flight simulator to give trainee pilots a full 360-degree view of the world as they conduct virtual missions, said Barco.


More photos below. Related story here at Reuters.














(Photos: REUTERS/Yves Herman)



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