Flashback Island is a 360 Panorama picture viewer for RICOH Theta. All the Panorama pictures are stored in the app so it might take sometime to load based on your internet connection. In the future and when I have more time, I will use google doc and store pictures externally instead.
Lunch it here.
You will see many yellow orbs around the island. If you center any of them on your screen, an orange circle will show up around it with some information about the picture. While you are at it, press spacebar to view the picture, and press it again to exit. Enjoy it!!
01/05/2014
Spacebar vs. Mouse-click. If this was meant to be a desktop experience, I would totally use a Mouse-click over Spacebar. However, this app is intended for Oculus Rift, and the Spacebar is a programmatic preparation for an external (arduino-driven) button that mounts on viewer’s chest.
12/18/2014
360 Cameras like RICOH Theta produce pictures like the one above. It works perfectly as the texture for sphere in Unity. The only technical hurdle to get this to work is that Unity 3D doesn’t render inside of the sphere by default. Since I am going to texture the sphere with the Theta picture and put a camera in the middle of the sphere for viewing, I need Unity 3D to render inside of the sphere as well. In order to make this happen, a new shader is needed, well I only changed 2 lines…
download the shader here
unzip it and put it in the asset folder. Replace this one with the default texture shader in the inspector window.