360 degree video of Haiti

Yeah, the Haiti story is the Haiti story, but this technology is really awesome.

From this, you can theoretically imagine a day when the entirety of the world is constantly being recorded so that you could then go on-line, pick a time, pick a location, press play and from there move in whatever direction you want. Basically placing a billion cameras every so hundred feet and recording.

Crazy.

 

thats 360 camera thing is awesome

 

crazy to see SUV's lining the street next to dead bodies...


so this is like the Google Street View technology, but live and interactive...

 

Is that driver trying to add to the death toll with that insane driving?

 

That is some KICK A$$ TECH!

I can hardly wait till they mix that with 3-D !

 

Thanks for reminding me I need more RAM.

 

That is the sweetest piece of technology I've ever seen.

A few things though:

1) How come this guy gets to go past traffic? Is it military?
2) How come he is driving so fast?
3) At what minute mark, do you see dead bodies? I didn't see any.

 

felt like a video game

 

It did feel like a video game, and that's why I needed inverse controls! It felt weird looking up when I scrolled up...

 

That is some very cool technology.

I'm a little surprised the buildings don't look more destroyed, but I'm sure there is damage we can't see.

Driving on the wrong side of the road took me by surprise.

 

Should I feel bad that the only thing I thought about during the video was how awesome the tech is?

 

this is amazing. i didnt even realize you could control your view for like the first 10 seconds. imagine using this technology for movies like saving private ryan or p*rn!

 

Looks like some parts of mexico

 

If you click on the link to cnn's page, it's page one of four; there are three other pages like it.

Also, for me at least, when I mouse-wheel on the image, it zooms in and out.

If you view just the right side of the road, and look behind many of the street-level buildings, you'll see a lot more destruction.

And - they're driving on the right side of the road because it's a third-world country that has few police and traffic enforcement is non-existent. Most of the world is like that.

 

If you go to the 1:01 mark and look left, you'll see a naked guy.

 

out of the 3:20 of footage, you spot the one naked guy. bravo to you sir. bravo.

 

That would be more scary than cool. Stalker-net.

 

I don't see how you would have noticed that, unless you were intentionally looking for naked men.

 

Now there are 5 pages instead of the FOUR you mentioned.

It's not really THAT difficult to achieve this. It's just a matter of getting a 6-lens video, then breaking the video onto frames, and cut-and-paste each frame of each of the video frames, while using only one stream of audio. The FLASH application that allows you to drag-and-zoom onto the photos broken down is also not that difficult. Of course, I neither have the time nor the resources to create what the fellas at immersivemedia did.

This reminds me of the old VR movies QuickTime had. You'd take six-to-eight photos and then let QuickTime stitch them. You'd have a virtual photo-world. What immersivemedia did is take VIDEO, break it into frames, and make each video frame be a place you can drag around inside a Flash location. Good stuff.