Interactive 360-degree video demo-reel from Yellowbird

A while ago I posted about the Yellowbird 6-lens 360 degree video camera, and promised I'd share some a Yellowbird video when I had a chance. As you watch the video, you can click and drag anywhere in the scene to get another view.

Enjoy!

Yellowbird Interactive 3D Showcase


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Yellowbird created a 360-degree interactive video tour for the Dutch Batavia Stad website, a fashion and style company. Some of the navigation is in "3-D", and at various points, the viewer can click on an icon to view a regular video-clip to obtain additional information.
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Choose and Move Your Own POV (Point of View): Interactive 360-degree video of on-line performances from the MTV-U Woodie Awards

Rome Reborn, Digital Rome: 3D animated history and archaeology

A recent article posted by Tracy Staedter on the Discovery News website highlights the Rome Reborn project. Rome Reborn is a 3-D re-creation of Rome as it stood in 320 A.D. The project has involved an interdisciplinary, international team of people, including computer scientists, artists, archaeologists, and historians from UCLA, the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

According to the article, Rome Reborn (Digital Rome) will be teaching tool as well as part of an on-line 3-D peer-reviewed journal, a place for researchers to publish and share their work on the project over time.

Here is a link to another detailed article on Ian Foster's blog about Rome Reborn/Digital Rome: http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/digital_rome.html


On a related note, I am waiting in great anticipation for my Novint Falcon 3-D haptic game controller. Wouldn't it be great if we could provide people with visual impairments the chance to experience Rome Reborn in 3-D using the Novint Falcon? For more information, visit the Novint Falcon.