Comments on: Spherical Panorama Virtual Tour Viewer for iPhone

By: Jan Vrsinsky

Jan Vrsinsky — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:12:04 +0000

Hi all, currently the further development of the code is done by developers at 360 cities. You can view the code there, just load any page on your iphone or in using the user agent switcher plugin for firefox set to emulate iphone. Also Klaus (krpano author) has created great javascript/css viewer for iphone.
Cheers
Jan

By: Joe Girolamo

Joe Girolamo — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:05:40 +0000

Great script! I have it working great on iPod touch and iPhone 3G. Any ideas for pinch zoom?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:25:13 +0000

Hi Jan,
I would also love to get panos working on my site for the iphone.
How do i get the code/example template page?

Great work and many thanks
Alex

By: jan

jan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:47:33 +0000

Hi Jan,
i am posting some panos on 360cities (search for Jan Totzek, if you like to), but i also would like to have a solution to show my panoramas for the iphone on my on homepage which is http://www.totzek.de.
I would like to play with your code also. maybe this is stupid, but where can i find this code? sorry, i am not a programmer, but want to show this a friend of mine, who will help me.
would be great, if this will be a solution to show panos without flash for pc and for the iphone!

jan totzek

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:01:51 +0000

Hi Roberto, awesome!!! Can’t wait!

By: Roberto Da Costa

Roberto Da Costa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:04:19 +0000

Hey Jan, we are playing with the code and converting this i-phone script to hopefully work with the Google Android based OS as soon as we have a link I’ll post it up!
thanks again!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:50:33 +0000

Hi Jan,

I’m really enjoy playing with your code. I tried to put your code into a native iphone program via PhoneGap, work like a charm despite the rubberband bouncing of the UIwebview.

just one quick question: I tried to enlarge the 3D viewport by adjusting the values in CSS. (viewport height & width, cube size…) none of them work, any clue?

I also tried to play with a Object VR animation with the Jswipe, but it behaved oddly and not as responsive as yours. thx.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:59:37 +0000

Hi Roberto. I suggest you check out the guides at http://www.panoguide.com/howto/

By: Roberto Da-Costa

Roberto Da-Costa — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:20:29 +0000

Hello Jan, sorry for the bother but I have been doing lots of research into this i-phone app and love it! we are working on some applications for us, the dilemma that I have is that we shoot cylindrical panoramas. Are there different steps we need to take to shoot spherical from cylindrical? thanks! sorry for the newbie comment

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:29:15 +0000

Hi Mike.

Panoramas are usually stored in equirect format. It’s an image with the width:height ratio of 2:1. Try searching image.google.com for equirectangular to get the idea. There are tools like Hugin or PtGui for creating equirects from the pictures taken by your camera.

The iphone viewer indeed needs 6 cube faces to work, however you don’t need to take the panorama that way. There are tools for converting equirects to 6 cube faces. PtGui is one of them.

To avoid the tripod being visible in your panorama you need to take a down shot without the tripod. The easiest is to hold the camera, point it downwards and take the shot. You don’t need to worry about your legs being visible in the image because you can use just a small area of the image that is missing when you combine all the other shots.

Of course there are more advanced techniques that allow you to remove your shadow in a panorama, to take the down shot in the dark when you NEED to use a tripod, etc. But I hope this answer is a good start for your adventures with panoramic photography Let me know if you have further questions. I’ll be happy to help.

A link for your inspiration http://www.360cities.net/image/flugpano-papierfassung