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360 Panorama is a new kind of pano-shooting app for the iPhone. Instead of taking many pictures and then stitching them together afterwards, like every other pano app, you just sweep the iPhone across the scene in front of you and 360 Panorama will build a super-wide image in real time, similar to what you can do with some of Sony’s latests digicams.

The app is still taking lots of individual shots: it’s just putting them together as you swoosh your iPhone over the world and working out where the camera is pointing by using the accelerometers. Image-sections pop up onto grid as you go, showing you the app’s progress, and a full 360-degree panorama should take about 20 seconds to complete. You’re going to need a new iPhone to run it, though. Because this is a processor intensive app, it will only work on the iPhones 3G and 4.

The app is $3, and available now.

360 Panorama [iTunes]

Source:wired.com

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Supersized panoramic photos of cities are the flavor of the season. After Prague and Dubai, it’s the turn of Budapest to get a detailed online photo that you can zoom in and out of and play around with–almost like Google Earth.

The photo shot over four days has 70-gigapixels. If the finished picture is ever printed, it would make a a poster 156 meters (511 feet) long and 31 meters (101 feet) tall. The amount of paper it would take would cover two apartment blocks at least 10 floors tall.

To shoot the photo, two 25-megapixel Sony A900 cameras were fitted with a 400mm Minolta lens and 1.4 X teleconverters and placed on a robotic camera mount. 20,000 test images later, the file was processed to create a single interactive photo.

Check out the Budapest photo here. It’s a tad blurry and sometimes pixelated if you zoom in too much but still fun to play around with.

Photo: 70 Billion Pixels Budapest

[via Engadget]

Source:wired.com

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