New iPhone Photo App: 360 Panorama

360 Panorama -- Realtime panorama creation.

Description from the AppStore: Capturing panoramas has never been easier! Just tap the screen and pan your phone camera in any direction. You'll see your panorama being built in realtime as our computer vision-based system analyzes every incoming image. When you're done, you can save your panorama instantly to the Camera Roll, no need to wait for it to stitch. There is nothing else like it!

Features:

• Realtime panorama creation
• Create full 360 degree panoramas in under 20 seconds
• Instantly save to the Camera Roll - no waiting for image stitching
• Fully supports the new iPhone 4 Retina display and gyros
• Uses brand new iOS 4 Camera APIs

Requires iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 due to high-speed video processing.

AppStore Link: 360 Panorama - Price: £1.79/$2.99/€2.39

Editors comments: This app uses a different approach to most other panoramic apps, in that it stitches as it go's.

The app is easy enough to use, however for me the results are little hit and miss, and are not as clean as using an app like AutoStitch.

During testing there were occasions when the app left a gap between the stitching, rendering the pano useless.

Verdict

Overall I found this app very disappointing, with the image quality well below that of AutoStitch, and despite its unique approach to creating a panoramic, it comes nowhere near to knocking AutoStitch off its perch.

Comments

[Henri]

I agree that this app produces rather bad looking panorama's, specially compared to others like AutoStitch. I is a novel approuch though giving direct feedback of what you're actually shooting. Looking forward to a serious update ;-)

[Wkaemena]

I cannot share the opinion of the author who is saying that he is very disappointed about this app. I would say to contrary I am surprised and amazed of the ease and quality of this app. Sure there is always room for improvements like a crop or sharpen function.
Important is to hold the iphone in portrait position and go a along an imaginary horizontal line along the horizon and not to incline the iphone. But that is a basic condition for any cylindrical panorama.

here my first test panorama of my back yard...