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 <brian@snaptek.com> 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 <brian@snaptek.com
<mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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. Could someone help me?

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