Friday, 28 September 2007 23:36

Forget about fish eye, this is clearly the future: (below the prototype of MIT, which we may soon see on Instructables / DIY sites)

The device is capable of capturing multi-gigapixel, explorable panoramas with most off-the-shelf digital cameras.

You don't need specialized GigaPan hardware to take your own panoramas. If you have lots of patience, a high-quality digital camera, and a good tripod (or very steady hand!) you can take hundreds or thousands of overlapping, zoomed-in pictures for a gigapixel-scale panorama, then use off-the-shelf stitching software to combine the images into one very high-resolution panorama for upload.

The WEB interface for navigating inside panorama is simply fantastic, the speed is great, as it make use of background downloading, image maps, asynchronous multi-part load and multi-pass refinement images load

GIGAPAN and most popular shots are here (1445 available), Google is sponsoring the program (may we soon see huge panorama in Google Earth????)

The commercial version will be available here for $275

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GigaPan layer is already visible in Goog

Randy (67.161.10.xxx) 2007-09-29 20:07:06

Actually you can already see huge panoramas in Google Earth from the GigaPan
site :-). You have to first download the very most recent Google Earth 4.2 from
earth.google.com. The first released 4.2 can't show the layer, so you need the
most recent. By default the GigaPan preview is turned on -- just look around
for the blue magnifying glass icons. When you open one up you have the option
to turn on the full GigaPan layer, which lets you see the >100 panoramas that
are published there. Just since the GigaPan layer was published a few weeks
ago, gigapan.org has more than doubled in size and there are now more that 500
panoramas. These new panoramas will start being added to the Google Earth layer
soon...

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