An earthquake is never something that is fun to live, it’s even more true for the people in Haïti right now. Every media is talking about it and even if it’s really a sad thing, I strongly believe it would be a good idea to move on… BUT, it certainly is a good thing to get our little internal voice to tell us that there is peoples with a worse day than the one we just had at work…. I wish the best to every people in Haïti and hope that everyone will stand for each other, instead of killing their neighbor as a desperate move for survival. A group is always stronger than an individual.

Now, lets move on to the main subject of this post. It was showed to me by a colleague today, he saw it on Cyberpresse.ca… that took it from CNN… that use the technology of Immersive Media.

Wikipedia have a description of the technology that is surely better than what I could summarize here, so why not simply quote them :

An immersive video is basically a video recording of a real world scene, where the view in every direction is recorded at the same time. During playback the viewer has control of the viewing direction, up down & sideways. Generally the only area that can’t be viewed is the view toward the camera support. The material is recorded as data which when played back through a software player allows the user control of the viewing direction and playback speed. The player control is typically via a mouse or other sensing device and the playback view is typically 4:3 window on a computer display or projection screen or other presentation device such as a head mounted display.

It’s an interesting technology, the video are interactive and let you see what you want while the video is still running !! Awesome !

Here is a video of what it looks like:

Seeing this today remembered me of a night passed at the SONIA lab with my friend J-F Im where he was trying to do stereoscopic vision with 2 development webcams … Awwwwh so good memories!