Occipital, the company behind the grand app recently profiled by TNW, 360 Panorama, has discovered something new and exciting contained within the Safari Mobile Browser.
To use what Occipital’s discovered note that you’ll need an iPhone or iPod Touch with iOS 4.2 and gyroscope support to see the new mobile Safari magic.
What you’ll see is something, as far as our research can determine, which has never before been experienced in a mobile browser.
What is it exactly?
Occipital has uncovered a little known feature that only appeared with the release of Safari Mobile 4.2. The feature involves using HTML and gyroscope support for panorama viewing right inside Safari Mobile 4.2+. It’s an AR-like experience right through the built-in browser.
Super neat and here’s what you can do with the feature, now live, when you visit http://occip.it/pt3dmqna from Safari’s Mobile browser:
After you capture a panorama with the 360 Panorama app, one can upload the picture, getting the URL to view the experience in Safari Mobile. In essence, the raw jpeg image files are hosted on either TwitPic or yFrog after a user uploads a panorama through 360 Panorama.
After launching the URL in Safari Mobile, one will see “Gyro ON” and simply by moving your phone in any direction, you can have a complete panoramic experience using the photo you’ve captured. Moreover, experiences can be viewed on TwitPic, or the location of the experience using Apple’s “Maps” app.
Absolutely incredible.
As for 360 Panorama, Vikas Reddy, Co-Founder of Occipital, provided us with the following stats on the app’s growth since its update:
- “We’ve been the #1 App Store photography app in the US and 20+ other countries.”
- “Will cross 20K panoramas UPLOADED (hundreds of thousands captured) this week despite only having Twitter integration.”
- “On track to exceed 800K panorama views by the end of the month.”
Uncovering an amazing new Safari Mobile feature and incredible stats for a fantastic app, 360 Panorama. Occipital is on the rise and you’ll definitely want to check out today’s latest release.
try it out and let us know what you think. so very, very, neat.
This is pretty sick, have you checked out the rolling ball accelerometer demos too?
Oh wait it doesn’t have access to the camera, this isn’t actually hidden sadly, maybe first time a company has used it tho
http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios-accelerometer-websockets-html5
After trying it, as lovely as it is, this doesn’t have access to the camera as I thought so probably isn’t really AR, it’s the first implementation of Gyroscope I’ve seen for sure but it was a well talked about feature when Apple updated the OS, as well as the Accelerometer:
http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios-accelerometer-websockets-html5
I’ve no doubt camera access for Safari will be in a OS update in the very near future but keen to see how companies take advantage of this stuff
@Murat Mutlu certainly. as i state, it’s an “AR-like experience” and capability is there for more. we’ll have to see what becomes of it. thanks for commenting!
this is a very lame angle. There is no AR here – need live images to create AR, and that’s before you add bits to the image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality). The news is that Safari allows you to pan/tilt a pre-taken panorama. hooray. But not AR in any way.
I’m sure any printer manufacturer would be overjoyed to tell you that their printers have AR-like capabilities:- “The printer has AR-like capabilities. All you do is take a picture, print it, and then move it around as you turn.”
I think it shows that AR is possible without the use of an onboard app, which means Steve may have been right all along about web apps, he was just (as is usually the case) a few years off with his declaration.
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