360° Immersive Imaging

Sunex SuperFisheye™ solution makes the creation of 360° fully immersive images quick and easy.  Take 2 or 3 shots,  you are ready to generate virtual tours using your favorite stitching software. Popular stitching software such as PTGui (download starter guide), Autodesk® Stitcher Unlimited support both PC and Mac. For additional information on stitching software and technique, please visit our support page. 

Applications of Immersive Imaging

Real Estate Virtual Tours

The following examples were all created using Sunex SuperFisheye lens and 3-position Panoramic Rotator.  Click on a thumbnail image to view a full screen panorama in Apple QuickTime format. Drag mouse left, right, up and down to look around. "Shift" key to zoom in and "Ctrl" key to zoom out.

Dinning room (Flash format)	Sitting room	Study	Living room
Front yard	Master bedroom	Side yard	Back yard
Balcony	Bath	Kitchen	Guest room
Balcony 2	Drive way	Family room	Backyard Dinning

Examples Provided by Sunex Customers

•  Fourth of July parade - Canon XSi/450D created by Sidney Sytsma:

  "This is the EXACT application for which I bought the Sunex... 180x360 in three shots to minimize ghosting when there's lots of movement in the shot.   I can do a 3-shots-around panorama in about 5 seconds.  Very slick!
  
  The Sunex is on a 4 foot tripod with a 4 foot pole extension (1" plastic pipe that fits over the center column of the tripod and rotates around it) using a Canon 450D with wireless remote; stitched with PTGui+Smartblend on a Mac into a 16-bit TIF file; moved into Cubic Converter to extract the cube faces to clean up the zenith and nadir with PSE6, then reassembled into a QTVR at 30%.  In this case, Smartblend handled the most of the minimal ghosting that was present. "

• A 3-shot example - Nikon D200  created by John Law and John Houghton

• A 4-shot example with camera on a hand-held pole created by Andrew Baddeley

• Panorama album by John Willets (most panoramas were taken with Sunex lens)

Other 360 Panoramas (with other lenses)

• Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony

• Heathrow New Terminal

Additional Images

2-Shot Immersive Images

The following examples were created from only two images. This is made possible because each Superfisheye™ image captures a hyper-hemisphere with 185° angle of view. The extra 5° provides the overlap required for proper stitching.  All panoramas were stitched from 2 JPG images.

3-Shot Immersive Images

For high quality virtual tours, we recommend using a Sunex Panoramic Rotator with the Superfisheye™ lens. The rotator makes the process of capturing precisely aligned images quick and simple. The stitching process is automatic and more reliable with 3 shots using stitching programs such as PTgui.

Swimming pool

Hotel lobby

Sunset

Vehicle interior

Download swimming pool individual 2-shot JPG files
Download swimming pool individual 3-shot JPG files
Download Canon 40D RAW files ~40MB.  Lateral chromatic aberration correction is possible using Adobe Camera Raw.