Seasonal changes to vegetation fascinate Koen
Hufkens.
So last fall Hufkens, an ecological researcher at Harvard, devised a
system to continuously broadcast images from a Massachusetts forest to a
website called
VirtualForest.io. And because he used a camera that creates 360
°
pictures, visitors can do more than just watch the feed; they can use
their mouse cursor (on a computer) or finger (on a smartphone or tablet)
to pan around the image in a circle or scroll up to view the forest
canopy and down to see the ground. If they look at the image through a
virtual-reality headset they can rotate the photo by moving their head,
intensifying the illusion that they are in the woods.
Source https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603496/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-the-360-degree-selfie/
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