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ksowockiJul 30, 2010
Sick!
andrew311Jul 30, 2010
Now just make it for Android ;)
wwwoodyJul 31, 2010
Time to get to work making one. I smell money.
stickwstJul 31, 2010
There was this app called RobotView I had for a bit, idk if it ever left beta but it was a 360 panoramic camera. Sucked ass though, horrible stitching.
skellenerJul 31, 2010
I thought Android had a built-in app that did this?
unxconformedJul 31, 2010
All the new Samsung Galaxy S android phones have a panorama mode built into the camera app and it works a lot better then those demo shots on the article.
andrewhydeJul 30, 2010
Works really well outside, fun to use and demo.
falldogJul 31, 2010
That is a f**king terrible looking panorama.
satirenineJul 31, 2010
Perhaps, but depending on how it's used, it might not matter as long as it works.
andreoJul 31, 2010
Compare that with a 180 panorama taken with a Sony P&S:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/4833095281_0d95198c58_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4795169877_c21da92924_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4830348274_c621b94bf4_o.jpg
Not the best, but not a bad job either for a point and shoot with no tripod.
milkmageJul 31, 2010
woah.
a real camera takes better pictures than a phone?
in f**king credible
andreoJul 31, 2010
@milkmage
Not really. Especially for a point a shoot. I hear that Nokia phones are pretty damn good at taking photos and video. Better then some point and shoot cameras.
I also quickly looked at the 4th gen iPhone. I wanted to see how quickly it was ready to take another picture. It rivals my Sony when it comes to single shots and blows my older digital cameras out of the water.
And when you throw in items that come standard for phones now such as:
digital compass and GPS, but are considered (sometimes pricey extras) for cameras. It's not such a shock that a phone can be as good as or better then a dedicated camera when it comes to pictures or even video.
Matter of fact, if phone designers start including better sensors and lenses into their phones, there may be even less of a reason to carry around a point a shoot when you can have just as good of a picture from the phone you normally carry around.
quantumstatejimAug 1, 2010
@andreo
The main problem is the lens, you just can't fit a decent sized lens into a phone like the iphone. You can make the photo look better but having high quality components can only get you so far. The speed of taking a photo should be good because phones have large memory and a fast processor (if you take burst shots most cameras will compress on the fly and push it into ram because writing straight onto memory card is too slow). The difference is bigger in low light.
n0diggityJul 31, 2010
Am I the only one who thinks that looks like s**t?
roiperezJul 31, 2010
The reviews on the app store say that the photo quality the pictures come out in is quite poor. Anyone tried it?
roiperezJul 31, 2010
Sorry for the double post - but I thought I'd try and let everyone know how "awesome" it is....
http://imgur.com/s0LW9.jpg
Above is one I took 2 minutes ago. Not worth the the money at all.
dougs55Jul 31, 2010
Looks like you really need a tripod to use this :)
I checked the app store and noticed that this app isn't that highly rated and some similar apps actually are.
zalysterJul 31, 2010
But that's where content aware fill comes in!
philbertJul 31, 2010
Check out Microsoft ICE too it does a fantastic job and it's free
quantumstatejimAug 1, 2010
I haven't tried ICE but hugin is a good cross platform program that is also free.
patrickxJul 31, 2010
Maybe you should just load photoshop onto your phone so you can use it in realtime with the phone's camera... In other words, you're seriously trying to compare this app to a desktop app priced at hundreds of dollars?
quantumstatejimAug 1, 2010
The picture shown is too poor to be useful, it has a giant badly matched seam for a start and even ignoring that it is low quality and low resolution. There is free software (hugin) available which does a far better job, although it does need a PC as you said.
http://i.imgur.com/zZoUF.jpg is an image I used hugin for and took with a fairly decent digital camera, imgur scaled it down and put some heavy jpg compression in though, so the original is better than that.
johnb41Jul 31, 2010
The Droid X's camera has a special panorama mode. All you have to do is move the camera and it automatically snaps the pictures at the right time and stitches them when you're done. A friend showed this to me last week, and it worked really well.
It does it with photos, not video. But who cares!
kooftJul 31, 2010
Much better looking too:
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/07/26/motorola-droid-x-panorama-assist-video-demo/
http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/motorola-droid-x-panorama-san-francisco.jpg
corneljeJul 31, 2010
Google does it better.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=601+Townsend+St,+San+Francisco&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=601+Townsend+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94107&gl=us&ei=6oBUTKfhBdWmsQbGsOjiAQ&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA&ll=37.770426,-122.40172&spn=0.013976,0.033023&z=16&layer=c&cbll=37.770344,-122.401821&panoid=AkkkCf3mGgZfOFAxVlq-wg&cbp=12,314.12,,0,-9.85
corneljeAug 1, 2010
wow, I was drunk when I posted that. Its creepy I found the exact location of the picture being took. Kinda proud of myself :)
zalysterJul 31, 2010
There's an app for it on the N900 as well, and you can use the whole panorama as your wallpaper that stretches across your homescreens...
flare1028usAug 1, 2010
I would very much like to see a panoramic video, though.
la7dfaJul 31, 2010
360 without a decent camera and a good tripod sucks....
quantumstatejimAug 1, 2010
You don't need a tripod if you are outside taking long distance shots, though you do end up having to crop a bit off the edges, I just take way too many photos to get loads of overlap.
ricemonsterJul 31, 2010
It looks like the CNET office is melting.
Closed AccountJul 31, 2010
Cool app idea poor execution.
ottoJul 31, 2010
VideoPano has been around for a while and can do this sort of thing. It works best if you slowly pan the camera. If you do it too fast, you get that blurry effect.
thebigbentleyJul 31, 2010
Welcome to 2010 iPhone users. My Droid X can do this and much better. Hell, my old Samsung Omnia from 2 years did the same thing, and even those panoramas looked better.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
philbertJul 31, 2010
What would be nice is if you could keep scrubbing around until you fill an entire sphere, not just a horizontal strip. 3D artists would be snapping it it up like crazy.
quantumstatejimAug 1, 2010
3D artists would be using a good camera with a PC to do the processing. The tools have existed for a long time.
philbertAug 1, 2010
Depends on what you need, if you're just making textured environment to light your scene you don't need high quality or good contrast, sharpness, etc.
howitzer86Jul 31, 2010
Yeah, this is pretty bad. Also for free you can make better panoramas with Hugin.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
jcimsJul 31, 2010
AutoStitch has been on the iphone for a long time, and it creates great panoramas from the superior resolution of the phone's still camera. I use it all the time.
jtmedinaAug 1, 2010
Anyone can do same thing with some ordinary phones(1 year old) and of course there are many apps for pc that does the job. It seems like if you don't have a Apple product you can't have any of these features.