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    </div><p id="37ad">All this gets even cooler if you have a virtual reality device with a web browser, such as the Oculus Quest 2. With such a device, you can follow the links and then open the pages in fully immersive VR, where you just move your head to inspect the photo feeling like you are right there! See for example the same photo in the snowed forest above, screen-shot from inside the VR device:</p><figure id="f2dc"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*jA56_OeprsQK-amFz3yDYw.jpeg"><figcaption>A 360-degree photo I took with my smartphone, seen here in the web browser of the Oculus Quest 2 in VR mode. Screenshots by author Luciano Abriata. To know more about these photos, check out <a href="https://readmedium.com/winter-walk-around-an-altitude-mountain-lake-e19268a6d404">this story</a>.</figcaption></figure><p id="d9ee">Two last photos for you to try on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or VR device. First a 360-degree shot inside the branches of a huge tree. Here’s the flat picture, and below you have the link to see it in 3D yourself together with screenshots in two orientations:</p><figure id="88f7"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*kQ9Q4gVs81zqup51M4NrpQ.jpeg"><figcaption>360-degree photo displayed flat. Follow the link below to see this in 3D -it will be much clearer! © Luciano Abriata.</figcaption></figure><p id="37ae"><a href="https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view6-arbol.html">https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view6-arbol.html</a></p><p id="ece1">One screenshot looking to the side:</p><figure id="cd40"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*O4y6R8SQCEIyMHCKbnSUXg.png"><figcaption>One of two screenshots from the 360-degree photo above. © Luciano Abriata.</figcaption></figure><p id="beac">And one looking straight up, just like in the prompt that <a href="undefined">Anne Bonfert</a> proposed some weeks ago and I replied with two stories but actually extracted from the spherical view:</p><div id="440f" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Shots of trees, looking up to the sky</h2>
            <div><h3>Following the invitation by Anne Bonfert, these days I’ve been paying attention to my environments focused on finding…</h3></div>
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            <h2>Shots of nature looking up -no trees edition</h2>
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    </div><p id="37f7"><a href="https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360art1.html">https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360art1.html</a></p><p id="04a0">But this, I have to explore further. I hope I’ll be back with “computer art in 360 degrees”!</p><p id="4ae1">→ If you want help doing something like this, do <a href="https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/office/contact.html">get in touch</a>!</p><p id="5248"><i>I am a nature, science, technology, programming, and DIY enthusiast. Biotechnologist and chemist, in the wet lab and with computers. I write about everything that lies within my broad sphere of interests -the @lucianosphere. Check out my <a href="https://lucianosphere.medium.com/lists">lists</a> for more stories. <a href="https://lucianosphere.medium.com/membership"><b>Become a Medium member</b></a> to access all its stories and <a href="https://lucianosphere.medium.com/subscribe"><b>subscribe to get my new stories</b></a><b> by email</b> (original affiliate links of the platform for which I get small revenues without special costs to you).</i></p><p id="f867"><i>For inquiries of all types, <a href="https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/office/contact.html"><b>contact me here</b></a>. For <a href="https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/services/index.html"><b>small jobs</b></a> (on programming, data analysis, cryptocurrencies, biotech + bioinf project evaluations, science outreach + communication, molecular data analysis and design, molecular graphics, photography, moleculARweb tutorials, science teaching and tutoring, etc.) check my <a href="https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/services/index.html"><b>services page here</b></a>.</i></p></article></body>

A 360-degree photo I took with my smartphone, seen here in the web browser of the Oculus Quest 2 in VR mode. Screenshots by author Luciano Abriata. To know more about these photos, check out this story.

Photos and art that you can explore, not just view statically

Playing with immersive 360° (“spherical”) photos

I recently got to know a library with which I can insert 360-degree views taken with my smartphone for you to experience right online. You don’t need to do anything special, just follow each link and you’ll see the 360 views right there. You can move around the spherical view with your mouse if on a computer or with touch gestures if on your smartphone. Moreover, on the phone you can do something cooler: if you choose “Sensor” instead of “Touch” or “Mouse” then you will be able to move around the spherical view just by moving your smartphone!

Let’s begin with one concrete example. I took this 360-degree photo in a small forest by the lake, standing between two big trees.

360-degree photo displayed flat. Follow the link below to see this in 3D -it will be much clearer! © Luciano Abriata.

The image is all deformed, but when you access it in a 360-compatible way, everything changes:

https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view4-bosque.html

Screenshot from the 360-degree photo above, as seen on a computer and unrolling the visualization controls. © Luciano Abriata.

On the bottom right you have the controls with which you can choose how to move around the photo. In computers, only Mouse/Touch works, but in tablets, smartphones, and VR devices the Sensor mode works and makes the experience much more immersive!

Try these two other 360-degree shots I took in different parts of a forest:

https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view1.html

https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view2.html

And don’t miss this 360-degree photo in a snowed forest:

https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view3.html

from this story:

Winter walk around an altitude mountain lake

Just 1-hour train ride from home, we are up at 1000 m above sea level in the town of Le Pont, at the junction of Lac de…

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All this gets even cooler if you have a virtual reality device with a web browser, such as the Oculus Quest 2. With such a device, you can follow the links and then open the pages in fully immersive VR, where you just move your head to inspect the photo feeling like you are right there! See for example the same photo in the snowed forest above, screen-shot from inside the VR device:

Two last photos for you to try on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or VR device. First a 360-degree shot inside the branches of a huge tree. Here’s the flat picture, and below you have the link to see it in 3D yourself together with screenshots in two orientations:

https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view6-arbol.html

One screenshot looking to the side:

One of two screenshots from the 360-degree photo above. © Luciano Abriata.

And one looking straight up, just like in the prompt that Anne Bonfert proposed some weeks ago and I replied with two stories but actually extracted from the spherical view:

Shots of trees, looking up to the sky

Following the invitation by Anne Bonfert, these days I’ve been paying attention to my environments focused on finding…

lucianosphere.medium.com

Shots of nature looking up -no trees edition

Following the recent stories and invitation by Anne Bonfert, these days I’ve been paying attention to my environments…

medium.com

Another screenshot from the 360-degree photo above. © Luciano Abriata.

The last photo, I leave it to you to guess what it is… (will be straightforward if you access the link to see it in 3D):

https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360view5-cisnes.html

Last 360-degree photo displayed flat. Follow the link above to see it in 3D. © Luciano Abriata.

Not only photos

You can in principle wrap any figure into the spherical space and just look at it. Here’s for example a composition from blue paintings of my previous story:

Hues of Blues

Come and see a selection of photoshoots and computer-generated art where blue is the protagonist.

medium.com

https://lucianoabriata.altervista.org/tests/panolens/360art1.html

But this, I have to explore further. I hope I’ll be back with “computer art in 360 degrees”!

→ If you want help doing something like this, do get in touch!

I am a nature, science, technology, programming, and DIY enthusiast. Biotechnologist and chemist, in the wet lab and with computers. I write about everything that lies within my broad sphere of interests -the @lucianosphere. Check out my lists for more stories. Become a Medium member to access all its stories and subscribe to get my new stories by email (original affiliate links of the platform for which I get small revenues without special costs to you).

For inquiries of all types, contact me here. For small jobs (on programming, data analysis, cryptocurrencies, biotech + bioinf project evaluations, science outreach + communication, molecular data analysis and design, molecular graphics, photography, moleculARweb tutorials, science teaching and tutoring, etc.) check my services page here.