Explore Prague in 360
When those world camera were big craze a few years ago (I.e. you could watch your friend wave to your from TGI Friday’s in Time’s Square) I thought that would be that last of it. But recently, most notably with Google Street view which enables you to walk around a city, a new kind of virtual presence technology has taken off. I guess people want to see where they’re going or just take a look around if they’re bored. You can now view Prague in full 360 panorama.
“The creation of this image represents my previous five years’ obsession with all things panoramic,” says Jeffrey Martin, founder and CEO of 360 Cities. “If you’re stuck at home over Christmas, feeling humbuggy and don’t feel like hanging out with your family, you can explore Prague instead.”
360 cameras enable you to view a panoramic scene on your computer and move in 360 degrees. 360 cities is a Dutch company and they created this 18GB panoramic picture of Prague. It was taken from an SLR camera which rotated very slowly for a number of days. In total, hundreds of thousands of pictures were stitched together to form this wonderful creation which has over 18 billion pixels.
“The final image exists as a 120 Gigabyte Photoshop large (PSB) file,”
You can view the image for yourself right here.
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