Panoramic shots in a photo have a serious limitation: They have to be stitched together from multiple photos taken at slightly different times. So to get a truly spherical 360-degree photo, you have to be able to take a lot of photos from different angles at the same time. How is that done? Until now, we had to use a lot of cameras that “look” in different directions and are connected to each other so that we can take photos whenever we want. How would you like the idea of having just one device that could do this?
The Panonois a ball-shaped camera (containing 36 small cameras) that you can throw up high. It is programmed to take photos when it reaches the highest point of the flight and therefore does not move, minimizing the blur caused by movement.
Once Panono has taken all the photos needed to connect a 360-degree image, it processes all the individual images, uploading them to the Cloud. There, algorithms take over, stitching the photos together to create a final 72-megapixel image. The spherical photo is hosted in Panono and can be viewed on your phone or online from the Web.
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