Jason Villmer has been working on this cool 360º video engine, Lucid Viewer, based on the Papervision3D architecture.
The principle is very simple. Just play a movie filmed with a 360° camera mapped onto a skybox. But the effect is truly amazing, giving the user the freedom to look in all directions, it raises the experience well above watching a video.
Another great example comes from Quentin Lengelé. Check it and read how he’s done it here.

February 17, 2008 at 8:31 pm |
[...] que se encamina a captar paisajes y ambientes en toda su extensión una nueva muestra. Se trata de una idea de Jason Villmer, también sobre arquitectura Papervision [...]
February 18, 2008 at 7:56 am |
If efficiency will improve Papervision 3D this yet will be this we can do on side of www really excellent effects admirable matter …
February 18, 2008 at 8:27 am |
I’ve been doing 360 degree virtual tours for a long time now, but this! THIS IS BRILLIANT.
How does someone like me, who is into ‘Photo 360′ aquire, learn and implement Video 360? In fact, how do I migrate to something like this? What hardware and softwares do i require?
February 18, 2008 at 2:11 pm |
yes! This could be great. Imageing sending live sport events with this technique.
Where do i get a 3d camera?
February 18, 2008 at 11:22 pm |
Immersive Media (http://www.immersivemedia.com/) is the company that developed the 360 camera. Correct me if I’m wrong but Immersive Media isn’t selling the camera. They are selling the service. Thats what their sales person said anyways.
So they got the cool toy but they’re not sharing (or selling rather) with the other kids. Guess we’ll have to wait till a 360 camera is developed for consumer use.
February 19, 2008 at 1:04 pm |
Really impressive effect !
There surely is a wide range of application : event immersion, advertising…
February 19, 2008 at 8:53 pm |
BeHere Did this years ago, and used to sell the lens and cameras to do it. Their resolution back in 1999/2000 was not the best since digital video resolution was pretty limited, but their lenses used a non-proprietary connection to the camera so you should be able to connect them to newer hd cameras. Good luck finding the full lenses though as they seem not to be selling them or even focusing on that aspect of the 360 video any more. Originally they used and ActiveX control to display the video, and when I was working with them through Ferris Productions we had worked to create a version of the control that actually used the Virtual IO headset tracker to adjust the user view to wherever they turned their head. It worked nicely, but we did have some issues with head tracking needing to be reset every so often due to drift in the sensor.
http://www.behere.com/
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