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A BRIEF TUTORIAL ON HOW MY VIRTUAL REALITY PANORAMAS ARE CREATED

 

 

Rotating the tripod-mounted camera a full 360 degrees, a series of photographs are taken at regularly-spaced intervals.  I prefer cameras using film, since the image quality is superior to digital cameras.

 

Using the Kaidan™ camera mounting system,  I am able to insure that the camera is perfectly level in all planes, rotates around the nodal point of the lens (thus preventing parallax distortion) and that the intervals are suitable for the particular lens being used.  (For example, using a 20mm lens, 12 photographs will be taken to complete the circle, each photograph being 30 degrees apart.)

 

The film is developed and scanned; the resulting digital images are fed into the VR Toolbox™ program, which stitches them into a seamless panorama.  The panorama is enhanced and optimized using Adobe Photoshop™ and then brought into the VR Toolbox™ and Quicktime™ programs to ready the panorama for inclusion on a CD or website, or for transmission over the internet.

 
 
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