Use your iPhone gyroscope to virtually look around Apple’s new Grand Central store
Apple has posted a 360 degree panoramic view of its latest Apple Store which can be found at the famous Grand Central Station in New York. What is so special about this particular photograph is that it is only visible on an iOS device and you can look right around it using your devices built in gyroscope.
To see the picture, you will need to visit the Grand Central Apple’s store page from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Select view more photographs and you will see a list of pictures on the right, at the very bottom is one marked 360. Click on it and the picture will open and you will then be able to look around by holding your device and turning around as if you where actually standing on the spot.
To see the picture in all its glory using the gyroscope features, you must have an iPhone 4, 4S, iPad 2 or iPod touch 4th Generation; as these are the only models with the gyroscope hardware. This is the first time that Apple has used this type of image on its store pages; it will be interesting to see if it adds similar images to its other stores too.
Source: TNW
UK editor at iMore, mobile technology lover and air conditioning design engineer.
| Tweet |
|
|
← Previously
Contest Winners: Choiix Stand, Infinity Blade IILeave a Reply
Note: Comments must be civil, respectful, and on-topic. If a comment does not add to the conversation, if it contains spam advertising, or inappropriate language or content, it will be removed. Insulting the topic, author, staff, site, network, or other commenters will result in the comment being marked as spam and potential prevent future comments from appearing on the site. Do not post as a business or your comment will likely be confused with spam. Comments containing links may be held for moderation. Relax, enjoy, and share in the discussion.
Cool.. and oddly enough, it works on a BlackBerry Bold 9900 as well..except, you have to pan with your finger so it's not making full use of the gyroscope but interesting that it works at all on a BB.
I'd imagine it will work on most WebKit-based browsers
Very nice!
That is awedome
Cool, but somewhat clunky and awkward on my 4S. No obvious way to full screen the image...kept misclicking and dismissing it, and then it didn't want to display a second time until page refresh.
It was interesting but I couldn't get it right side up. It was always upside down no matter how I oriented it.
streetview
Very cool. You can even look straight up to the ceiling and straight down to the staircase below the camera position.
Now, if Apple could do that with real-time video we'd be extremely impressed.
It is interesting
Nice. I wouldn't have minded seeing a couple from the viewpoint of inside the store, tho.
If you haven't checked it out yet, the 360 app lets you take amazing panoramic pics like this. Totally worth it. I don't work for them, but just really like the app.
There is a misuse of the "where" in this above article. It should read "Click on it and the picture will open and you will then be able to look around by holding your device and turning around as if you WERE actually standing on the spot."
There is a misuse of the "where" Strike that... no misuse. Just an incorrect word or complete typo.