Since the dawn of photojournalism in the mid 19th century and then with the advent of video journalism, observers have been confined to viewing the single perspective originally captured by the photographer. Enter Condition One, an immersive, interactive way to capture and replay journalism footage. The days of one viewpoint are numbered.
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As part of a relaunch for Germany’s Universal 13, a revolutionary new film, The Witness, has been created in which you play an interactive, traveling roll. Using augmented reality on an iPhone, participants begin their adventure by witnessing a kidnapping by the Russian mafia. It’s then their job to track down the victim, finding clues, communicating with other participants and viewing other scenes on location around the city of Berlin. Much like a real life Choose Your Own Adventure, participants can both save the day or become the next victim themselves.
Creating a 360-degree interactive panorama of your next party, big game, or messy bedroom is now a simple feat, and all you need to have is an iPhone. Released recently by Occipital, 360Panorama only requires that you slowly spin in a circle while capturing the world around you. The app then weaves the images together and best of all, lets you navigate it from the phone, or later on the web. They’ve even added a feature that uses the phone’s built-in gyroscope to navigate the image by spinning around, just as if you were still at the scene of the shoot. [Read more...]
For Christmas this year the folks at North Point Community Church in Georgia wanted to mix things up a bit. Using borrowed iPhones and iPads, they formed an “iBand” and performed the traditional bell choir song “The Carol of the Bells” using only the Apple devices. Merry iChristmas! [Read more...]
People are always coming up with new ways to use their iPhones. Featured here are some very small folks relaxing with their favorite phones.
When he’s not designing websites or creating iPhone apps, J. D. Hancock likes to take photographs of “small scale” things like his enormous collection of action figures and toys. A recovering pack-rat, J.D. often takes pictures as he unpacks bits from his past.
Hanging out at the iPool
