Japanese mobile telco NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) has today launched a fun smartphone app that will create video panoramas that include sound. While we’re probably all familiar with making panorama images using the iPhone camera or apps like Panorama 360, Docomo wants to shake things up by animating those things.
As you can see in the GIF (or the full demo video embedded below), Docomo’s Ugoku app animates a panorama only in the middle section, so that should be the focus of your tableau. The rest of the panorama is stitched together from photos in a double layer of eight to 10 images.
Once your living and breathing panorama is created, you’ll see that it looks pretty spooky with only the central part cleverly coming alive in video form. It’s a bit like those cinemagraph GIFs where only one aspect moves – as we’ve seen in Sony’s pretty neat MotionGraph app. Optionally, the new Ugoku app can also just take conventional still panorama images.
The beta version of the Ugoku panorama app is here in Google Play; it requires Android 4.0 or higher and is likely geo-restricted only to users in Japan.
See how an animated panorama is made in this two-minute demo video:
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