MARCH 19, 2009 Un ponton à l'Anse Vata Panoramas by Gregory Panayotou
MARCH 19, 2009
Un ponton à l'Anse Vata
Panoramas by Gregory Panayotou
Have you ever wondered what a trip to Easter Island would be like? Or a trip to a market in Tahiti? Maybe what it feels like to kite surf... I stumbled onto this thing google has for us now, called 360Cities. It is not really new as in just hit the net... but it just found its way into my life and WOW! It is really awesome.
It provides the viewer with a 3Dimensional panoramic view of what the person who is filming the image is seeing. It is truly the next best thing to being there!
I was so caught up, I just kept searching further and finding more and more to view. I was addicted in a matter of minutes
Some of them can be embedded into a blog or website and some cannot. The ones which can't do not need any kind of interaction from you.. they will run on their own. But the embeddable ones must be worked by using your cursor.
By placing the cursor on the right or left side you can click and hold it down and it will move in a 360 degree circle and you feel like your there!
If you wish to zoom out or in.. simply roll the scroller on your mouse like with a photo editor.
Choose full screen and then click to turn off the controls... to get it to work like I mentioned above.. just play with it .. it is addictive and if your not careful.. you end up writing a blog at 4:04 a.m. like me!
Here are some other links to his fantastic work.. I am impressed.... truly impressed!
I have embedded this one of a trip to Easter Island.. it is just so surreal.. I felt like I was standing right there beside those ancient and spooky statues!
http://www.360cities.net/profile/gregory_panayotou
http://www.direct2brain.net/
http://www.tahiti360.tv/
Another Day At Ahu Tongariki (Wiew from Front Right) in Rapa Nui - Easter Island
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ReplyDeleteJANEEEEEEE - Stop this crazy thing.....
I just threw up on Easter Island - clean up Aisle #9....
Okay.. I will clean it up.. you say your on aisle 9? Thats the problem OJ.. your supposed to be on Easter Island! lol.. Here is some pepto.. take the lid off and throw it away.. and get on back here and play with the viewer until you get the speed and direction right.. it is a omnidirectional type thing isn't it! lol.. I got kind of queasy at first too.. just got to learn the right way to catch the speed you need dude!
ReplyDeleteI love it! I wonder what the deal is with one of those statues having a .. um.. hat? on and none of the rest of them do?... humm.. google it!
ReplyDeleteOkay - I slowed it down. It reminded me that I have yard work to do....
ReplyDeletePretty cool.
ReplyDeleteWOW! This is really neat, although it made me dizzy! (or dizzier)
ReplyDeleteWHHHEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I have so many rocks in my pockets I can barely walk..
ReplyDeleteSH*T! Is that Border Control coming towards us? YICKS!!
I looked down at me feet. I looked up to the face of the sun. I saw horses. Peoples. cars.. hitching post! BENCHES. STUFF AND MORE !
This is fantastic!!
But I didn't see any Bunnies.. and this was the hardest egg hunt, I never found one purple egg.
And that local person who told me those statues were Chocolate bunnies in a hard candy shell... LIED!! Sum'one owes my Dentist a HUGH bill for these new caps!!!
This is GREAT! Thx 4 2days sch lesson! OH YEAH!! I'm off to get kid friendly info and coloring sheets!! Maybe we will even carve/sculpt our own little man.. WITH A HAT!
Sounds like fun!!
I see why you were up all night - COOL! COOL! COOL!
sO CooL iN FACt i Made A Screen shot, just to see if I could!! Because many of the images would make pretty Wallpapers/BGs!.
IT WORKS!! This is not my fav - just a test!!.
tHIS IS A SEEK & FIND - Can you see it?
ReplyDeleteLook and you will see.. a profile at the base of the hill/rock!
That one with a hat.. He's an air head. had to put that on to weight him down so him not float away!..
ReplyDeleteYOU are having a really bad day my friend!
ReplyDeletedarn tootin"
ReplyDeleteYou have to play with it and get the speed down.. try one of the links and see if you can find the one of the kite flying scenes.. now that is cool too.. and I think it runs by itself.. you don't have to do anything but watch it.. those are the ones you can't embed though..
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! BREATHEE... HAHAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteHARD CANDY SHELL! HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DENTIST BILL.;. HAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH1AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
WITH THE HAT FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE YOU SWEET SISTER.. YOU MAKE MY DAYS BETTER EVERYDAY!!!
I see lots of profiles Dani.. remember I was up all night and have had .. just enough slobber on my shoulder time in my chair to see all kinds of really cool if not imaginary things .. in the hill/rock.. sky.. oh look.. its the border patrol!
ReplyDeleteYeah.. that is probably it.. or maybe it used to be like a wheel of cheese and it just got that real hard crust on it from being left out in the air..
ReplyDeleteI've been everywhere man! I've been everywhere! Beaches, Canyons, mountians, Places I can not pronounce, porches, Australia, Austin Texas.. Route 66.. North American.. Hollywood sign, Chinese Theater! Totem Park, Oklahoma!!! St Louis at the Arch! Beaches, I've been everywhere!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great find Terri! You know what I'm gonna do now? I'm going to send all the beach / ocean links to my sister! AND the Hollywood ones (Where she has actually STOOD!)
THEN! Then I am going to send link with detailed instructions to my friend with the ill partner.. - the one I told you about.. yeah.. I hope it will be a welcomed treat - maybe get to do some armchair travelling.
love ya sug! bye
Lockie done real good!... hope that it brightens up their days.. it sure has me hooked.. I keep going back and flying the kite one... too cool!
ReplyDeleteFinding nothing for Arkiesaw.. piss'n me on.. er OFF!
ReplyDeleteKite fling you say.. have not noticed that one. I'll go look now!
I'm tired and your making Freddie's eyes work to hard,along with other parts of his body.
ReplyDeleteLockie you find the neatest things. Girl we need to talk! *grins*
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool! How do you find these things? I know......you don't sleep! Fantastic post. So unusual.
ReplyDeleteThank for the fun. I enjoyed it.