User Requirements Survey for Interactive Video Tour Product Development
As we all know, panoramas provide essentially static view, instead of truly interactive experiences. While the interactive video tours can help provide a compelling sense of presence. When experiencing a video tour, users can move at will, look at any directions and change the point of view anytime.
You can film a tour of an environment that you wish to display and then use image-based rendering techniques to replay the tour interactively. So users can truly move along a set of predefined tracks, choose between different directions of motion at intersection, and look in any direction. Besides, the interactive tour will have a high resolution and dynamic range. The system easily incorporates multimedia objects such as navigation maps, pop-up stills, audio enhancements, and video textures.
Figure 1
First film a tour of an environment that you wish to display
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Then use image-based rendering techniques to replay the tour interactively
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Now you can truly move along a set of predefined tracks, choose between different directions of motion at intersection, and look in any direction.
Comparison of Panorama, Video, Auto-Modeling and Interactive Video Tour Solutions.
Solution |
Video |
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Workflow |
Take photos and then stitching/unwrap them into panoramas. People can view it interactively through Computer |
Film and then people can view directly through TV or PC |
Produce photorealistic simulation models from a video (serial frames) or several panoramas of a real static scene/object. |
Film a tour of an environment that you wish to display and use image-based rendering techniques to replay the tour interactively. people can move along a set of predefined tracks, choose between different directions of motion at intersection, and look in any direction. |
Design |
Camera with fisheye lens |
Video camera |
Both Video camera or Camera with fisheye lens |
Video camera with fisheye lens, or Omnidirectional camera |
Field of View |
Almost spherical at certain points. You can jump from one scene to another. |
Limited. Depending on the Video camera You can walk through but can’t change your point of view freely. |
No limitation. You can go anywhere you like and look at any directions. |
Almost spherical at all points. You can move along a set of predefined tracks and stop to look around. |
Live Video |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Real Scene |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Image Quality |
Still image. Depends on the Camera and software. |
Depends on the video camera. |
Not clear |
Up to 4 Megapixel |
Interactive navigation maps |
Yes |
No |
Not clear |
Yes |
Hotspots with the ability to pop-up still images |
Yes |
No |
Not clear |
Yes |
The ability to indicate the coordinates of the points |
Yes |
No |
Not clear |
Yes |
The ability to measure and calculate |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
The ability to shoot and view in real time |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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The ability to measure and calculate
Thank you for your interest. Please filled in the questionnaire with your objective and detailed feedback. And we'll provide you a special discount if you would like to order the Video Tour Product later. A free copy of Easypano Video Tour Software may also be offered, if your contribution is highly valued to our product research and development.
Now please click here to open the questionnaire.
If you have any other questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact us:
Neo Xie
New Product Research Team, Easypano, Inc.
Address: Room 21304, 498, Guo Shoujing Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, P.R.China 201203
Email: neo@easypano.com
Tel: +86-21-50805536
