Your thoughts please......

[DaveS]

Loaded quickly, images seem fine.

I couldn't get the right hand button to do anything, though.

 

[hoverjumper]

Impressive

Hi Snooks,

I like that a lot! It loaded within 20s on my laptop using mobile broadband. I'm on a Macbook Pro using Safari browser.

I think it gives a better feel for the inside than single shots, although I wouldn't want to do away with single shots for certain details. As well as boat reviews it would be great to do some of famous and interesting boats such as Steve White's Open 60 featured in the Sep YM or old favourites like "Lively Lady" or "Suhaili".

hj

 

[Plyn]

Didn't take long to load on my computer, what does the right hand button do. Nearly made myself sea sick!

 

[toad_oftoadhall]

As well as boat reviews it would be great to do some of famous and interesting boats such as Steve White's Open 60 featured in the Sep YM or old favourites like "Lively Lady" or "Suhaili".

Nice idea.

 

[snooks]

I couldn't get the right hand button to do anything, though.

That should take you to full screen mode, but I set the flash to display at full screen so it might be redundent, but it depends on how Dan decides to set up the final pages

 

[LadyInBed]

Just got the little Square Circle Triangle icon in the corner

 

[Rivers & creeks]

Instant load on Mac Mini (intel) running Firefox. It's a major improvement having 360 views.

 

[snooks]

Just got the little Square Circle Triangle icon in the corner

Hmm...that's not right

What system/browser are you running?

 

[snooks]

It's a major improvement having 360 views.

Thanks, I thought they added value, which was why I wanted to give them a go, and got the company to invest in the equipment. But it's always the problem of how others find them...It's no good having fantastic 360s if they take an age to load and are tricky to use....this system seems to be great!

We've had the 360 thing going on for over a year now, but until the other day they had been limited in size and I didn't have the ability make them look their best.

The others are here:

http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/virtual-tours

At the boat show there will just be one interior of the Saloon, but on the boat tests I shoot one 360 of all the areas forecabin, saloon, chart table, heads aft cabin etc as you can see from the Hallberg Rassy 372

But now I've found a way of making them bigger, which is easier to use and shows far more detail I think you'll be seeing a lot more of them

 

[BrendanS]

I've just viewed on a 3 dongle, which is great for general internet browsing, but less good for intensive stuff such as iPlayer, youtube etc. Loaded very fast. There is no comparison between what you can see on this, and what you get from a few cabin shots. This shows how the shots all link together, and give far more information. The fact that it loads fast is even better, as few people want to wait minutes. Overall, I'd say it adds a lot of benefit.

 

[jonic]

Snooks. On the hard in the USA, using a Hawking wifi dish. Loaded very fast. So good I'm going to get one for the brokerage site when I return. Excellent.

 

[Csail]

Very very good, quick to load and good quality.

 

[Saguday]

Snooks, it's really good, loaded very quickly on an iMac even connected to the net by a bit of damp string. Full screen is amazing, mostly these things are quite small.

I personally love 360's they give a great sense of what the boat is like inside. Hallberg Rassy, IP and other manufacturers have had them on their web sites for a while and there are different types of navigation to let you go from one cabin to the next (a simple map in the case of IP but others have a clickable "zone" that allows you to step though into the next area, which is really cool).

I'm all for it, more please.

 

[BlueLancer]

Loaded in less than 5 secs. Excellent quality of picture.E System PC running Window Vista premium.

 

[KristiferColumbus]

The IT gods have smiled on me and have installed a bit of software on my machine...It now means we can now show you the 360º images full screen so you can see the inside of the yachts at a size that I think is quite impressive

Full screen 360º interactive saloon shot of the Elan 310

But I'd like your feedback please

First off, what do you think? good? bad?
I also need to know how quick is it to load on your various systems?
How easy do you find it to use?
Do you think it's a benefit to YBW?

or anything about the 360 you feel is worth letting me know.

Don't worry about the boat or the interior decor, I'd just like your views on the 360 thing

Be as honest as I know you all can be

Thanx in advance

Very impressive,that's the first railway carriage I have ever seen highlighted on a sailing forum.

PS:Any chance that we can have a bird with all these 360 degree gizmo's?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Instant load - Macbook, safari, 20MB (theoretically!) broadband.

Nice tech, does a good job of de-distorting the fish-eye effect. Shame about the Ikea boat.

A photographer I work with uses something similar in architectural work, with hotspots to change rooms. See here.

If you'd like to chat to her about how it works, PM me.

 

[bedouin]

A photographer I work with uses something similar in architectural work, with hotspots to change rooms.

I think a number of hotspots are required to make it useful.

A conventional photo set of a boat like that would typically contain views from 5 different vantage points (2 in the saloon area and one each for the heads, fore and stern cabins).

 

[kingfisher]

Impressive. A much quicker load than quicktime versions, the quality is just as good (qt re-renders, but I doubt users need this). I'm in Brussels, cable internet. I'll give it a try next week in Kazakhstan on a 256 kbits network. Can't wait.

Is it possible to have something like google street view, with arrows to navigate inside the boat?

 

[Malish]

I'm using a standard tripod (Manfrotto 055) and a standard (if professional) Canon 1dsMKII. But that's not the cunning bit...I'm using a sigma 8mm 180º fisheye, and a 360precision atome rotator which rotates at 90º stops so I take 4 photographs each of which are 180º like the 4 sides of a cube. The rotator is slightly angled upwards so I don't have to retouch the celling/sky

The shooting takes about 5-10 mins for each panoramama

I then plug them into a clever bit of software (Autodesk Stitcher unlimited) which stitches all the images together. then I use another bit of software (the one I've just got) to speed up the production process, and one of the side effects of this is that I can also create Shockwave Flash images that are much bigger and quicker to load than the the Quicktime images I've been creating until now.

The software side of things takes about 10 mins, of which 3 of those I have to be doing something

Before getting the new software they were taking me 25-30 mins each

I hope that explains the process a bit more

Thanks, interesting stuff; I just priced up the package, can't imagine there is much change from £1k!

 

[carise]

Nice bit of kit, as others have said!

Loaded almost instantly on decent HP laptop connected via 54Mbps wireless BB connection.

Images and colours look good, although I could quite easily hurl prolifically as a result of panning too fast

Just one suggestion, as the images distort and depth perception varies considerably due to the lenses etc, (often used to the advantage of advertisers!!) would it be possible to use a reference object so that we can gauge what's distorted or not? (a YBW pen and mug strategically placed should do the job )