360 Panoramic Images - Anyone have any experience?
 

I am trying to figure out the best peice of software for making these things.

Does anyone have any experience with this? If so could you point me in the right direction?

Right now I have tried Ulead, which is great, makes wonderful images and stitches them together probably better than any other peice of software I have tried, but it has no optimization settings, and no way to make it so that the images don't curve making it look like a fishbowl view(which is annoying as hell)

And then I have tried the software packages from Vrtoolbox and they are great for optimzation settings, but don't work worth a damn when it comes to stiching,or blending..

So if anyone has any advice please let me know..

Cheers

easypano works pretty good and to keep it from having that warped look you need to play with the fov setting in the code it uses. try a setting of about 85

Does 360 mean a camera panning horizontally in a full circle, or the ones where you can also pan upwards and completely over?

I've only done the former so far, using a stitching program that came with my Canon camera, which can save to QTVR format.

http://media.sensationcontent.com/rowan/greenvale.mov

Ulead cool 360 does it .


But there is some cameras with special lens with software taht cost lil bit more than a thousand to take all of that on one pic but I'm not sure whati t is exactly .

www.eggsolution.com

work great !! very cooool !