Texas Stadium Implosion - BigLook360 The death of an iconic stadium and an Immersive Media Dodeca 2360 Spherical Video Camera. From Dallas, TX, where both BigLook360 and Immersive Media have offices, comes a video that is grabbing the attention of sports fans, concert goers, tech geeks, and fans of destruction alike. Sometimes you just have to say, "Let's go for it!" Chances are, that camera was one of the cameras I had on the VW Beetle I drove across the continent for the Google Street View project. BigLook360 has worked with Immersive Media before on a project for the State of Texas Department of Tourism, called Texas On Tour, that I wrote about in this blog here and here. Having grown up in Dallas, watching Texas Stadium go down came with a mixed bag of emotions. RIP Texas Stadium and Dodeca 2360 Camera number ???
Fotosizer Batch Image Resizer - Home RawTherapee Blog Riding Shotgun With Google Street View’s Revolutionary Camera For the past seven months, Kevin Nanzer has been on the road almost nonstop, living in and out of motel rooms and corporate apartments. He's crisscrossed the country, living for weeks at a time in cities like Austin, Texas, Oklahoma City, Okla., Raleigh, N.C., and Albany, N.Y. Nanzer, 23, is a geoimmersive data producer for Immersive Media, a Canadian company that specializes in the fast-growing world of "spherical video"—aka mapping the world for Google and beyond. "By the end, you'll get to know the city better than the one you grew up in," he says. On this particular day, I'm sitting shotgun with Nanzer for a sneak peak at the 360-degree, roof-mounted data collection for topography 2.0. By far the company's most recognizable client, Google, uses screen shots of Immersive's video footage for Google Maps Street View, a Web application that adds a level of interaction beyond the landmarks and driving directions that accompany most online maps.
Compressor.io - optimize and compress your images and photos Cameras Archives April 02, 2009 my Technomadic Hacks in Cyberpunk Non-Fiction; "C/Punk/Doc" I met Laszlo Kovacs, Director of C/Punk/Doc through the amazing forums @ Cyberpunk Review. He invited me to submit media just as they were wrapping production, so we have a 1.5 minute segment on my Wearable and Nomadic Computing work that begins Act 2. December 31, 2008 Wearable Computing @ 25C3 Via Hackaday, the 25th Chaos Communication Congress's Wearable Computing and Solar Power presentations roused me from blog hibernation to say Happy Holidays and please don't text and drive. New Year's greetings from under a rock. July 02, 2008 DIY Spy Sunglasses I don't want to sound negative, but I don't want to insult your intelligence either. June 26, 2008 My N430 This is the work I exhibited at Maker Faire this Spring. Systems integration is designed for field-reconfigurability and use of ubiquitous technologies such as USB ports and ethernet or phone cables. May 08, 2008 Geek Scooter April 07, 2008 More Soon! November 29, 2007
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» Papervision3D CornFlex, Script by Q. FLARToolKit: AS3 Augmented Reality Written by Quentin LengeléPosted in Flash,Papervision3DMarch 25, 2009 Months ago, I saw lots of video examples on blogs and YouTube and finally I got some time and found AS3 sources from some brilliant japanese guys (Libspark). They built an AS3 library called FLARToolKit which is translated from a Java library (NyARToolkit). This library can detect a “marker” on a video source and calculate its position in a three-dimensional space. Read more WeatherVision3D Written by Quentin LengeléPosted in Flash,Papervision3DJuly 25, 2008 I’m developping a new way of General Positionning System with Flash 9. How to build a SphericVR quickly Written by Quentin LengeléPosted in Flash,Flex,Papervision3DApril 17, 2008 Click and move your mouse over the image. Again, you need to build a sphere with 3DStudioMax and export it in ASE format. Read more SlideRocket Written by Quentin LengeléPosted in Flex,Papervision3DApril 1, 2008 Concept :
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Shooting 360-degree video with four GoPro HD Hero cameras | Ryan Jackson Photography Posted by ryanjackson on Feb 8, 2011 in 360 Panoramas, DIY, photos, training, video | First off, watch my 360-degree Video of the World Record Dodgeball Game at the U of A So last year I shot this video of the University of Alberta setting a world record for most people playing dodgeball and the video got over 650,000 hits. I’ve seen a few 360-degree videos out there but not as many as you would think considering how freaking cool they are. To shoot my 360-degree dodgeball video I used four GoPro Hero HD cameras on 1280×960 mode mounted vertically. The short version of this story is that I shot with four GoPros, extracted still images from video, stitched the stills together into panoramas then recombined them back into video. For the much more detailed and nerdy answer read on…. I got tips for arranging the cameras properly at diy-streetview.org I simply used a plastic leg from a table that was the same width as the naked GoPro cameras. Here was my shooting process. I say. It’s THAT easy!
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DIY Street-View Camera If you use Google Maps, you're probably familiar with its Street View feature, which shows actual ground-level photos of many cities around the world. Google creates the images by mounting special cameras on vehicles and driving them around. Now wouldn't it be great if you could have your own Street View–like camera? You could hike a trail and later share the photos with friends. The photos would carry GPS tags, so you could display them on Google Earth and include annotations—good water here, poison ivy there. Last year, as part of a "disruptive technologies" course at the United States Military Academy, in West Point, N.Y., I set out to develop a prototype. For the camera system, I chose the Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000, which is small and has UVC (USB video class) compatibility. The NX-6000 has a lens with a 71-degree field of view. For the GPS receiver, I chose the GlobalSat BU-353, a self-contained waterproof device with good signal reception and accuracy, which costs a mere $37.
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