yellowBird is a new technology allowing the creation of immersive 360° video, using a special kind of camera a bit like that used by Google Streetview:
A variant of the yellowBird camera is utilized within the Google Streetview technology. The prominent difference is that the yellowBird camera records video instead of photographs. The camera uses six cleverly divided lenses in order to capture every possible viewing direction.
yellowBird videos can then be embedded on a web page using a special player. On the surface, it looks like a normal Flash video player… but it’s not. Whilst the video’s playing, you can drag the picture around to look wherever you want to look. It’s very cool. Take a look (it may take a little while to load):
There’s another yellowBird demo available here: http://tmobilesingalong360.co.uk
Or you can check out the yellowBird website at what’s got to be one of the silliest web addresses we’ve ever seen: http://www.yellowbirdsdonthavewingsbuttheyflytomakeyouexperiencea3dreality.com – good luck remembering that!
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