CNN's 360° video of Port-au-Prince

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8 pointsdandelany3 comments

Really amazing. Anyone have any idea how this was done? There's no way they (or I) have the bandwidth stream 360° video, they must have some server that pieces together the frames of video I'm requesting on the fly? Or is it just really good compression?

http://www.immersivemedia.com/products/index.html + flash

You actually do. Its just a big flat video (albeit panoramic) that's mapped by the flash widget onto a dome.

I have 15Mbit service here. The entire thing downloaded in about 20 seconds and did not request any more data no matter what I did with the mouse.

Its just high compression and not overly high resolution. It probably could be though judging from the hardware that makes these videos. That's where the real magic is. I think I'd pay good money to get an hour or so in HD on a dvd.

I'm already thinking about how to tape my iphone to a hat so that it will follow my head movements...

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