panoramic navigation made easy

April 9, 2007 2:15 PM

Field of View's SPi-V engine (pronounced "spiffy") lets you take panoramic images from places like flickr, and turn them into interactive, full-screen environments. (note: shockwave required)
posted by Dave Faris (6 comments total)

Here's one of mine, the amphitheater near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
posted by Dave Faris at 2:17 PM on April 9, 2007

That "equirectangular" tag is well done.
posted by Richard Daly at 2:23 PM on April 9, 2007

This totally reminds me of Peter Gabriel's "Eve" CD ROM. Anyone else spend endless hours clicking through those environments?
posted by davebush at 2:24 PM on April 9, 2007

And this is better than QuickTime how?
posted by public at 4:13 PM on April 9, 2007

You can do it on the fly.

All you need to do is append the url of a photo on flickr to the url for the SPi-V site.

"http://fieldofview.com/flickr/?page=" + photos/davefaris/411697455 = this
posted by Dave Faris at 4:19 PM on April 9, 2007

Nice find! I shoot a fair number of panoramas and this is an interesting new way to see them.

Here's one from my photostream :)
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 3:38 AM on April 10, 2007