Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/11/guy-puts-a-360-degree-camera-i.html
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Isn’t that 180-degree? With a 360, you would see people running away, too, right?
Am I missing something here?
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Good thing the streets are generally well kept in Japan.
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Ya gotta use your mouse to tilt around. You can get them running away.
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Pfft… I didn’t come here to work!
[Thanks, I actually watched it twice and didn’t think to interact with it 
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Yes. Pan around with the mouse. But it’s still 180 degrees, as you cannot look down.
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So, someone hid a camera in a hole in the ground, filmed upwards while people walked or ran over it, without consent I suspect, and posted the video on the internet. And that’s OK? Cory?
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Wasn’t very thrilling. The person’s YT channel claims “This is SO COOL…” I guess if your 18 or so.
It absolutely is 360 degrees in the horizontal plane - you can spin all the way around - and about 90 degrees in the vertical (you can look straight up. and maybe a little further; in the few seconds when it’s in his hand, I can’t tell whether I’m able to see below the horizon or not.)
This is pretty neat, although I’m ashamed to admit that the first thing I thought was “Why was that cop just standing there? A guy just ran into the path of an oncoming marathon and planted a device in the road. That could have been a bomb or something!”
Stupid 21st century. Go 360degree cammers!
It is effectively 180, maybe 200 degree upward facing fisheye with a user-controlled perspective extraction.
Just because you can pan all the way around the perimeter of an image doesn’t make it a full 360 image.
It’s also flopped for some reason.
Like a Brendan Fraser movie?
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That is a deep track.
he has it face down or it’s the software
From the OP: Lawyer Viva Frei saw a pothole on a street closed off for a charity run, so he got permission to put his new 360-degree camera in and got a pretty neat shot.
Questions?
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Yes, it is. This is a public place. There is no expectation of privacy in the middle of a street.
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I was thinking it was more like 6.2 or so steradians. I could be off by a bit …
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I don’t think the lack of expectation of privacy on a public street extends to a surreptitious camera pointed up your loose running shorts.
Although to actually capture an image of such fast moving, well-shaded nether regions, you’d need a very good camera.
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From the OP
…“stunning POV…”
“… it’s awesome nonetheless. Enjoy! Peace out…”
“…this was too cool not to share…”
“…IT’S VIRTUAL REALITY AND IT’S SOOOOO COOOOL!!!”
Sounds like a teenager IMO. I have no questions. Get off my lawn.
