Glen A Stromquist writes:

Leo wrote:
Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360
degree images.
http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html

Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping
images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free
stitching programs out there?

Kinda hard to do with video, or with still photography of anything
that moves.

I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as
well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are
joined anyway...

Well, it should be possible to resample everything to get the geometry
fixed up, but the resolution will be that of a single image. Less, in
fact, and it will vary across the image.

There are uses for this device, and uses for stitched panoramas.

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