360° Video – in Flash, of course…
Feb 19, 2008 Author: lisa larson~kelley | Filed under: Inspiration, Video NewsMy friends over at FlashBrighton just alerted me to this amazing use of video in Flash — this company has designed a camera system that records full 360° movies. You can actually click and drag while the video is playing, looking at the scene from every angle. You’ve gotta see this!
http://www.immersivemedia.com//index.php
My heart’s all a-flutter. 
Amazing stuff.
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6 Responses for "360° Video – in Flash, of course…"
Hello Ms Larson, em … please I wanted to ask: does your book cover how to create a scrolling thumbbail panel just like as seen in youtube.com
Vit
Hi Vit,
Yes, we do explain how to create a thumbnail list, but the example shown uses the List component, which is a horizontal list. You can customize it however! It would give you the basics of how it’s done (loading from XML, etc.)
HTH
// Lisa
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for finding time to respond to my first enquiry. I am trying to build a flash video app for a client that knows absolutely nothing about technology BUT that wants to update it herself.
What do I need to build a system where she can upload her videos by herself from an HTML interface? probably storing them into some kind of Db. Just like youtube or MySpace. Does this have anything to do woth ffmpeg and Ruby on Rails?
Thanks a million! and look forward to hearing from you.
God, thanks for sharing this 360° video.
This is great !
Imagine the future of sport event broadcast ….
When will we be able to zoom in and out ?
Cheers,
@Roland
You can zoom in and out now (use the arrow keys, i believe) — it’s truly amazing.
hi vitor,
You’d want to use ffmpeg if she is uploading videos in a non-compatible format. If she’s uploading FLVs or MPEG4 (H.264) videos that are Flash-ready, then you won’t need to use it.
You could set up a database to handle the content cataloging, or, if the playlists are short, you could just add the new video to an XML document, then read the data into Flash and build the playlist. It really depends on the amount of content you expect to have. You will need some sort of server-side code, such as PHP or Ruby, to either edit the XML file, or write to the database.
Hope this helps (and my apologies for the very delayed response)
// Lisa
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