[SDL] OT: panographics animations

[Steve Madsen]

>PS - Are there such things as panographics animations?  It'd be neat to
>be able to look around while people pass by on a busy street, or even
>cooler, look around as the camera moves - maybe a rollercoaster or
>helicopter flight?

I was talking to a researcher at UCL (University College of London) last
night who's doing some work with a CAVE here, on loan from Boeing's VR
lab in the states.  He was talking about exactly this for his next
project--development of a stitcher for motion 
picture streams, rather than still images, which are simultaneously
captured by an array of cameras pointing in various directions with
a common origin.

I told him I'd seen a multi-head camera in a sort of geodesic/polyhedral 
housing several years ago.  Anyone remember the name of the VR company that
makes (made) this omniview camera (think I saw it on the web in 1997)?

Cheers

Steve Madsen