Flashcomguru.com: 360 Degree Interactive Video

Posted At : May 7, 2008 4:24 PM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: Videos & Players , Applications

Forget spinning cubes with video stuck on their sides and instead check out the demo below. From Immersive Media, same the guys that brought you street view on Google Maps, comes an innovative new way to navigate 360 degrees inside a live playing video. How is it delivered? Flash of course.

Check out this demo. Once the main content starts to play you can click inside the video and drag your mouse into the direction you want to view. Make sure you check out the snowboarders at about 1 minute in - and follow them as they go over the kicker.

There are more demos here.

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Rad!

# Posted By Phillip Kerman | 5/7/08 4:54 PM

This seems to be a progressive download, yet streaming. How is this done?

# Posted By Randy Troppmann | 5/7/08 5:08 PM

maybe like this?
http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2005/11/2/St...

# Posted By Stefan Richter | 5/7/08 5:12 PM

Cool, but I always feel like I'm missing out on something going on at the opposite side of whatever I'm viewing :-)

# Posted By TJ | 5/7/08 5:45 PM

seems fairly useless since you can only look in 1 direction at any given time. What happens if you are looking the wrong way when the hero is shot?

# Posted By fredo | 5/7/08 5:48 PM

Great....!!!!!

# Posted By GAby Menta | 5/7/08 6:33 PM

Holy Molly, that's some good stuff right there..

# Posted By Alex | 5/7/08 7:13 PM

If I had to guess, I would say they're shooting the footage in 360 degrees and then playing x streams and stitching it together on the client side.

Neat though.

# Posted By Brad | 5/7/08 7:32 PM

yes they have special cams which shoot 360 in one go. I'm not sure how the playback side is done.
I'm trying to imagine what the actual footage looks like when played back 'flat'.

# Posted By Stefan Richter | 5/7/08 7:51 PM

Cool!

they combine a sort of cubic virtual reality ( like this http://cubicvr.popforge.de/) with video streaming.

if you click on the how it works button, you see in the bottom left an example of the 11 video feeds combined in one big stream. So propably there are no multiple feeds or some fancy flash hacking.

still a cool app and idea!

# Posted By bram van der Poel | 5/7/08 9:18 PM

Wow, how they are doing this? It's just Great!!

# Posted By Sunil Gupta | 5/8/08 2:32 AM

looks like a wide video file that's stitched inside the player. My guess: Papervision.

# Posted By Stefan Richter | 5/8/08 9:15 AM

found a stream...

http://imc.cachefly.net/FijiCoralReef/Fiji_origina...

papervision frame work has a very high CPU load when it comes to video rendering ( i notice that the fans of my laptop immediatly jumps on when having a papervision 3d video site ) so prop they made their own 3d model.

besides the technical coolness i cannot see a practical application besides some room presentations.

# Posted By bram van der Poel | 5/8/08 11:33 AM

Cool. I've build something simular in Flex and Away3D:

Checl it out: http://samples.flexcoders.nl/away3d/sample9/

# Posted By Maikel Sibbald | 5/9/08 1:38 PM

I knew I had seen that video footage somewhere before
http://www.cornflex.org/?p=1
he had built a flex app to play that immersive video.

jc

# Posted By john c | 5/11/08 8:30 PM

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