It’s been an ambition of mine to create my own immersive VR panoramas ever since I first came across the 360 Cities website. After saving up for a decent camera, lens and the requisite tripod technology, I’m finally up and running. I bulked at the cost of stitiching software though, and while I really liked PTgui and would love a copy of Autodesk Stitcher I can’t afford them. Fortunately, Hugin is free, Open Source and totally brilliant. I also use Cubic Converter to extract cube faces from the equirectangular images in order to clone out the tripod.
There’s so much to learn about this form of photography; it’s not quite as easy as I had imagined. Here’s one of the first images I’ve produced:
The Nave, Wells Cathedral in England
I’m planning to create a series of images specifically for classroom use. These will eventually be available on Juicy Geography. An example is this image of a brown-field site:
Morlands, Glastonbury in England
I notice that if you right click on the image you can choose different projections. This one works quite well as a “little planet”
Brownfield site, Glastonbury as a Little Planet
Please get in touch if you have suggestions for a panorama for the geography classroom. And if you do use one, why not help me to recoup the massive financial investment by donating to the site development of Juicy Geography?
Love these images Noel!
What about some panoramas that leave some surprises? For example I use two photographs of a tourist resort at the moment – one shows an amazing beach view and the other a refuse tip. Would be great to explore such an area through 360
So impressed, Noel!