FullView Panoramic Cameras

[AZChopperCam]

it's not 360x360. It's 360x180.  The video is equirectangular projected. Equirectangular projection is twice as wide as it is high. The latitude axis covers 360 degrees. Since the longitude is only half the pixel dimension it is therefore 180 degrees.

[gigaslam]

He is wrong in saying that the images are 360 by 360. They are 360 by 180. 360 degrees all the way around horizontally. Then if you look 90 degrees down you are looking at your feet and if you look up 90 degrees you are looking straight up into the sky. Strange he would make this mistake.

[bknumber2]

He is not wrong. If you can look vertically 90 degrees up and 90 degrees down, all the way around a horizontal circle, then the image would cover 360 degrees vertically.

In other words, if you are facing North, and look directly up, it is the same as facing South and looking directly up. Likewise, if you looked directly down, it would not matter which compass direction you were facing. Therefore, the cameras would cover a full 360 degree circle in the vertical axis.

[jillesvangurp]

Learn to use Hugin if you want to stitch perfect panoramas. It's a great but slightly geeky tool for creating panoramas.

[QuantumAnomaly]

Cool. When can we expect 360x360 cameras to be available for typical consumers?

PhotoStitch is not doing my panoramas any justice.

[hammaggot]

Its available now. Sony Bloggie Kit w/360 lens.

Cool. When can we expect 360x360 cameras to be available for typical consumers?