If I do it I sure will! as for the 'street google street view' app the closest I can find is 'google street view'. Anthony, that is a good 360 picture of the auto service bay at gateway. To do it take a bunch of pictures and stitch them together with hugin and then put them into the ap? Can I download it for my computer? when you figure out how to link everything together let me know. I would think you would just take a bunch of pictures of the door and the hall and on. What do you think? On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz < anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu> wrote: > I've not tried it before. The user interface is very easy to use. There > are some areas that didn't align quite right, but the app walks you through > point by point on where to shoot the photo. It'll take a few minutes. I'd > be curious to see what the indoors one would look like. Michael, if you try > it out, could you put some of your photospheres here for us to see? :-). > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> I was going to mention that you could just use your phone, but with the >> amount of parallax distortion you would get indoors, because of the close >> quarters, I decided to pass on it as a suggestion. Using your phone >> without some fancy rig to align the lens correctly would lead to some very >> strange/bad looking real estate photos. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> On 03/03/2016 09:15 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz wrote: >> >>> I have experience with a particular application for single photos. We >>> haven't gotten to taken multiple to link them in a 'tour' yet. Use an >>> android device, go to the play store, download "Street Google Street >>> View," then get back to me if that works. I find it to work very well. >>> Here's a photo we took (spoiler alert: plug for our college.) It's free. >>> >>> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Automotive/@33.4492937,-111.9981612,3a,75y,339.38h,82.17t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-R2TgnaTB8rg%2FVsdPXmqvNaI%2FAAAAAAAACN0%2FMmnEtIAkgLs!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-R2TgnaTB8rg%2FVsdPXmqvNaI%2FAAAAAAAACN0%2FMmnEtIAkgLs%2Fw392-h196-n-k-no%2F!7i8704!8i4352!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x872b0e86227901f1:0x6f3e855d11e11760!2sGateWay+Community+College!3b1!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x6f3082e7a75018be!6m1!1e1 >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Brian Cluff >> > wrote: >>> >>> There is no super cheap way to do spherical panoramas correctly, but >>> there are a ton of ways to do them. >>> >>> Probably the cheapest way to do it is to get a panorama head for >>> your tripod and take a bunch of pictures of the room. I really like >>> the nodal ninja for doing that. It's inexpensive (compared to a lot >>> of the others) and it's well built: >>> >>> >>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/838674-REG/Nodal_Ninja_N3II_PKG_NN_MKII_Starter_Package.html >>> >>> To use the nodal ninja you have to carefully align the camera's lens >>> so that when you spin it around the camera is rotated on it's focal >>> point. That will be somewhere between the front of the camera and >>> the image sensor. >>> Then you just take a bunch of pictures that overlap about 30% to >>> 50%. You probably take anywhere from 16 to 90 pictures per photo >>> sphere depending on how wide angle your lens is. >>> >>> Then you just stitch all the images together in hugin. >>> >>> There are automated versions of the tripod heads, and this is the >>> route I would go. They offer the ability of just set how far apart >>> you want your images to be taken in degrees and then simple press a >>> button, leave the room and wait for it to take the pictures. It >>> offers the cheapest and highest quality of all the panorama >>> techniques that I know of. A very good example of the Gigapan. >>> With the smaller cameras you could get the cheapest model and it's >>> not all that much more expensive than the Nodal Ninja. >>> >>> http://www.omegabrandess.com/products/Gigapan/600-0006 >>> >>> There are also a number of specialized camera's that range from a >>> couple of hundred bucks to thousands. The cheapest one I know if is >>> the Ricoh Theta M15: >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/Ricoh-Theta-Degree-Spherical-Panorama/dp/B00OZCM71O >>> Many of the dedicated cameras, the Ricoh included use multiple >>> cameras to capture the image. In wide open spaces that it's such a >>> big deal, but inside buildings having multiple cameras that don't >>> capture images from a single focal point will cause parallax >>> distortion, which causes ghosting and tearing in the picture. The >>> ricoh only has 2 cameras so there will only be one place in the >>> image that will have the problem which will be in a big ring around >>> the whole image, top to bottom, so it might not be a bad camera for >>> real estate photos since you can plan where the problems will be. >>> When you get to higher end camera like the Panono which have 36 >>> cameras that are further apart. Indoor pictures will become >>> terrible with lots and lots of strange problems. Outdoors, with >>> everything being much further away, the parallax distortion isn't a >>> huge problem and you are treated to great 108 Megapixel images. >>> >>> https://www.panono.com/home >>> >>> Finally there are specialized lenses. but you'll probably have to >>> have a much more expensive camera and the panorama is fairly low >>> resolution because you are now spreading your camera's pixels around >>> 360 degrees, but if you need to take quick high quality photos that >>> don't require stitching, these can do the trick, but they are >>> expensive. Here's an example of one of those: >>> >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/EyeSee-360-Panoramic-Photowarp-Videowarp/dp/B003VHZS9W >>> >>> >>> Hope that helps, >>> Brian Cluff >>> >>> >>> On 03/03/2016 06:53 AM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> I go to google maps and go to a world view and plop the little >>> guy down >>> somewhere and often the street view that pops up is sometimes in >>> the >>> middle of the wilderness. I asked hear about it before and was >>> told that >>> you can get a hat with a camera on it to do that. Well, I doubt >>> I can >>> afford that hat so how could I do something similar with a >>> camera? >>> >>> Specifically, what I want to do is do a virtual tour of a house >>> and of >>> it's property. 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