Panoramas can be both technically useful and artistically stunning, so it’s no wonder that the devices that produce them are so popular in today’s world. These devices normally develop panoramic shots by piecing together multiple photos, each with separate time stamps, which stops them from truly encompassing a 360° image at one particular moment. But Panono has developed a spherical camera — actually, several cameras — that allows users to take a truly panoramic shot at any given moment, which they are hoping to fund through the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo.
In order to capture all 360° of a particular moment, users would need a device that has several cameras, each pointing in different directions, that would fire all at once. This is precisely what Panono has developed a spherical, throwable device with cameras all along the outer surface that can be fired as one in order to take a panoramic image. The device is still just a prototype, however, and far from meeting its funding goal of $900,000.
As shown in the video above, users can throw the Panono camera like a grenade into the middle of the room they desire to capture, as the device is programmed to take photos when thrown. Once the device reaches its highest point, all 36 cameras on its outer shell fire, a technique that minimizes motion blur as the camera will not be moving at the apex of the throw.
The Panono then processes each individual image captured by each of its cameras and then relays those images to the cloud using either the smartphone or tablet app. Algorithms then splice all the different photos to create a final 72-Mpixel image, which can be viewed on the user’s phone, online, or through an embed code.
To find out more about the Panono Ball Camera, visit Indiegogo.
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