This revolutionary new camera was designed by Immersive media, the leading full motion, high rosultion, interactive spherical video platform and production services.

They use a Dodeca 2360 camera system uses 11 video streams capturing high resolution 360 degree view at 30 frames per second of surroundings that is seamlessly  stitched together.

Only recently I discovered that our neighbor is driving a google street car, I look forward to quizzing him about the technology!

Later, photos can be extracted and stitched together to form pictures with a resolution of 2400 by 1200 pixel—a frame which is bigger than any high-definition image.

But at $45,000 for the camera, twice that with mounts and a base unit that processes images in real time, plus anywhere from $125 to $700 per mile of video footage, the rig doesn’t come cheap.

I also found others ways people have put 360 video to use.

Oh Darling 360 Music Video in Hi Def

I really admire her style, her creativity and orignal approach to landscape and self portrait photography. Her bleek landscapes and self portraits provoke thoughts of loneliness and isolation.

She lived in Gainesville, Florida, U.S., from age 4 to age 11. She currently lives in Hafnarfjörður, near Reykjavík, Iceland. Her Flickr images led to her creating and appearing in a Toyota advertising campaign.

Her posted images at Flickr were copyrighted, but then sold by a third party without her consent. “Only Dreemin” sold 60 prints, of seven of her photos, for more than £2,500. She protested by putting up a photo at Flickr that named “Only Dreemin” and had text telling of the illegal sale, but Flickr removed it saying users cannot “harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others”.

To view more of her images visit her website.

Discovering Microsoft Surface was a key moment in the development of our final year project. It was also the basis of our early research and a huge inspiration for us.

Although there are many similar projects in development including the Lumin and the Lambda table, Microsoft Surface adds real functionality to multi-touch technology.

Microsoft surface represents the next generation of customer digital interaction through multi-touch technology. It has a 30” inch tabletop display, where multiple users can get together to interact with the digital information.

Microsoft surface is a key indication of multi touch technology making the transition from research, development and demo to mainstream commercial applications.

It can also recognise devices such as wireless phones and cameras allowing customers to display product information or download photos from memory card. Microsoft Surface that presents successful convergence of many technologies into one product is one of the main inspirations for our project.

In 2007 Adobe installed an interactive installation to showcase Adobe Creative Suite 3. The installation demonstrated some of the capabilities of the software package, but instead of using mouse and keyboard, visitors interacted with the installation by simply moving in front of a large screen.

The huge screen was set up at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square, New York City. Initially the screen showed a blank canvas with simple slogans for Adobe Creative Suite 3, but when a person walked by the screen all kinds of graphics would appear using a motion tracking system they can use the data for an animated mixed-media mural. People were tracked by an infrared camera so their entire body was used as a brush.

This interactive mural installation was designed by Brand New School for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners of San Francisco.

Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of a concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios.

Adaptive Path has presented this new browser concept which was developed in partnership with Mozilla Labs and is an ongoing initiative to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of the browser and the Web.

The main idea of the concept is to represent users, places and virtual objects within a three-dimensional user interface (spatial view). The interaction with objects is intuitive and follows physical rules from our daily life: users can grab, lift, pull, push and drop everything.

The interface is event-based as users and updates are displayed on the screen on demand; communication and collaboration is embedded in the browser. Related objects are grouped into clusters which can be navigated using a dock at the bottom of the screen.

To view more videos and information visit the adaptive Path Website.

Microsoft’s multi-touch interactive spherical display, appropriately called “Sphere”, is a prototype that uses custom optics hardware as well as computer vision and graphics software to enable interaction on a 360 spherical surface. Global Imagination’s Magic Planet digital video globe was the basis and inspiration for Microsoft’s “Sphere”.

Taking its Surface touch-screen technology to another level  “Sphere” is Microsoft’s bid to create the next hot, cutting-edge product in the world of touch-screen interaction, which for all intents and  purposes is the next generation of user-computer interfacing. A technological revolution first set in motion essentially by Apple’s iPhone.

Click here to visit the microsoft sphere research website.