OpenPhotoVR is a pseudo-3D photo browser, a free analog to Microsoft Photosynth. Users create photo albums by uploading pictures and linking them together by hand.
Moving around: mousewheel to zoom, click-and-drag to pan, click “hotspots” with hand cursor to navigate between images.
Adding and editing: new albums are built in the editing interface, which is open to everyone, there’s no protection or registration at the moment. If you want your album to be featured in the left pane on the site, let me know - it’s done by hand currently.
Copyrights: please don’t violate anyone’s copyright when putting up photos - it’s your responsibility. Try to indicate copyright/license info in the descriptions. Creative Commons or similar licenses are preferred. (A lot of the photos currently come from the CC-licensed section of Flickr.) Navigation data is public domain. Source code is available under GPL.
Embedding: you can embed openphotovr in your own site, as a flash object like YouTube?. Like this:
<object width="400" height="300"> <param name="movie" value="http://openphotovr.org/main.swf"></param> <param name="FlashVars" value="id=6UgyZRkM"></param> <embed src="http://openphotovr.org/main.swf" FlashVars="id=6UgyZRkM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" ></embed> </object>
Also, you’re welcome to reverse engineer and use the site’s data for your needs - an alternative browser, 3D reconstruction, IBMR, whatever. Photos are stored as zoom towers of 256x256px tiles, like in Google Maps: example tile URL. Navigation data is flat JSON files, one for each photo: example nav URL.
It doesn't do automatic matching! Photosynth is way better!
Yes.
When will it be GPL?
Can I use this on my website with your technology?
Yes. Use the embedding method described above, or download the code and run your own copy.
It's too hard to line up photos when creating links!
Yes. I’m working on a point-matching interface, not sure when it’ll be done.
It doesn't work in Konqueror!
Not yet. Sorry.
Why so blurry or pixelated?
Maybe the site is slow, wait a bit then refresh and try again. I’ll try to get a fast webhost.
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