jan totzek

I’m really enjoy playing with your code. I tried to put your code into a native iphone program via PhoneGap, work like a charm despite the rubberband bouncing of the UIwebview.

just one quick question: I tried to enlarge the 3D viewport by adjusting the values in CSS. (viewport height & width, cube size…) none of them work, any clue?

I also tried to play with a Object VR animation with the Jswipe, but it behaved oddly and not as responsive as yours. thx.

Panoramas are usually stored in equirect format. It’s an image with the width:height ratio of 2:1. Try searching image.google.com for equirectangular to get the idea. There are tools like Hugin or PtGui for creating equirects from the pictures taken by your camera.

The iphone viewer indeed needs 6 cube faces to work, however you don’t need to take the panorama that way. There are tools for converting equirects to 6 cube faces. PtGui is one of them.

To avoid the tripod being visible in your panorama you need to take a down shot without the tripod. The easiest is to hold the camera, point it downwards and take the shot. You don’t need to worry about your legs being visible in the image because you can use just a small area of the image that is missing when you combine all the other shots.

Of course there are more advanced techniques that allow you to remove your shadow in a panorama, to take the down shot in the dark when you NEED to use a tripod, etc. But I hope this answer is a good start for your adventures with panoramic photography Let me know if you have further questions. I’ll be happy to help.

A link for your inspiration http://www.360cities.net/image/flugpano-papierfassung

I love the work, but I’m a little confused about 1 thing. I’m not a photographer so I’m a real newbie when it comes to taking panorama images.

I looked at your code and saw that the js is calling 6 images. I’m assuming you took 6 images all taking a 90 degree turn 1 after the other. But how do you take a floor shot without having the tripod of the camera in the image?

360cities.net, an immersive panoramic photography hosting website, now supports iphone. There’s no special URL, just load any image in your iPhone to see it. It’s still an early version with many bugs, so it’s not announced publicly yet, but it will definitely be improved and updated. Note: This new version on 360cities.net is not my work anymore, 360cities gets the credit and will continue to develop it.

If you want to see YOUR panoramas on iphone, just upload them to 360cities.net and then view the image on your iphone.

(Note: this could be a biased comment, I work for 360cities)