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January 23rd, 2010, 16:20
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_haitivideo.jpgWe've covered how technology has shaped relief efforts in Haiti (http://gizmodo.com/t/haiti) and shown how it has affected our perception of the tragedy. CNN is now offering new perspectives of the devastated nation with three interactive, immersive videos.
The videos were shot over the last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital and largest city, the third of which captures the destruction most strikingly. The technology comes courtesy of Immersive Media (http://gizmodo.com/tag/immersivemedia/), a company that specializes in interactive 360 degree video and helped provide much of the data that powers Google Street View (http://gizmodo.com/tag/streetview/). Their website already had demos of their unique videos, in which the viewer has full control to pan and zoom even as the video plays, but it's good to see the technology being applied to a very current event and displayed on as visible a platform as CNN.com.
The situation in Haiti remains in many ways unfathomable, no matter how many reports or photos or statistics one consumes. But this type of project shows how technology is constantly providing new ways to experience and understand the world. [CNN (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html?hpt=C1) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22/spherical-video-of-h.html)
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The videos were shot over the last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital and largest city, the third of which captures the destruction most strikingly. The technology comes courtesy of Immersive Media (http://gizmodo.com/tag/immersivemedia/), a company that specializes in interactive 360 degree video and helped provide much of the data that powers Google Street View (http://gizmodo.com/tag/streetview/). Their website already had demos of their unique videos, in which the viewer has full control to pan and zoom even as the video plays, but it's good to see the technology being applied to a very current event and displayed on as visible a platform as CNN.com.
The situation in Haiti remains in many ways unfathomable, no matter how many reports or photos or statistics one consumes. But this type of project shows how technology is constantly providing new ways to experience and understand the world. [CNN (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html?hpt=C1) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22/spherical-video-of-h.html)
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