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Pre-Order: Girocam: One click, one 360° photo

http://www.kolor.com/girocam-360-camera-by-giroptic-and-kolor.html

A little pricey but cool.$1978.97 Maybe the price will get better as the Euro continues to fall.

Girocam: One click, one 360° photo

Girocam is a little revolution unto itself: It’s the first camera that let’s you take 360° shots completely automatically. The dream of many of us is now a reality: to create 360° panoramas and virtual tours very quickly while maintaining fine photographic quality. With three fisheye lenses and three sensors of ten megapixels each, Girocam takes three photos in just one click, allowing it to cover a field of 360°x150°. The completely automated stitching is done by included Kolor Girocam Studio software; it was developed by Kolor and is based on the same state of the art algorithms as those used in Autopano, the world benchmark for image stitching software. With the Panotour Pro software (optional), finally turn your shots into interactive virtual tours and publish them to the web.

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Permalink Reply by Drew Zinck on February 1, 2012 at 5:24pm

This thing looks to be pretty cool. The only thing that I can see wrong with it is the huge blank spaces that are left at the bottom of the tours. Even looking that the examples provided, the viewer can see the edges and corners of the blank triangle left in the images. The only way to avoid them is to tilt the tour up some which tends to make everything look a little funky. For $2000 I would want something a little bit more polished.

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Permalink Reply by Carol Grape on February 1, 2012 at 5:37pm

It is cool and much better than the old technology that produced 360's. I personally still prefer partial panoramas.