How to Create 360 Panoramic Shots of Second Life for Twitter & Facebook

This is a screenshot from Second Life with a difference -- it's 360 degrees. If you can't get the full effect on New World Notes, click through to view (and spin around in) on Twitter:

Gosh, I love @VRCHIVE. Check out this panoramic I made with my https://t.co/3JuJzeSKbn.https://t.co/sVcT5dAkrV

— James T. Reichert (@jreicher) September 22, 2016

Pretty cool way of presenting more immersive depictions of the virtual world on the "flat" Internet. As the Tweet suggests, this is possible through a device created by Microsoft's Jim Reichert, which he recently made available for fellow SLers on the Marketplace here.

Here's the Facebook page for his Panoramic Camera (screencap below) so you can see how the effect works in Zuckerberg land. (Managed by his SL alt, Mr. Ascendant.)

Panoramic Camera System's Facebook page

The set-up process may seem daunting, but Jim tells me there's step-by-step video instructions that pop up when you buy the device. They're also embeddable on WordPress.

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[Amanda Dallin]

I've been playing with this. It's not hard too do but it does take a bit of time. I've had a bit of trouble getting the pro version (uses more pics to get a full globe) to work but just haven't had time to figure out what I'm doing wrong. This was my first one.
https://vrchive.com/image/Eyd?code=upload

[Thommy Boy]

Created a SL 360 pano, but decided to try to make it viewable as a 3D as well by using the classic red/blue glasses.

https://vrchive.com/image/EBA

This was very difficult as it requires two camera views, approximating eye distance apart. When rotating the camera, the angles change, and at two points the angles are identical, which means that regions of the 3D anaglyph work correctly, others not at all, then when spun 180 degrees from the start point the positions are inverted.

The hack solution on my end was to split the images in two and invert which half was red and which was blue.

Proper solution would be for the programer to build it in with two camera views that can stay relative to each other while rotating.

[Pepa Cometa]

Trying a new tool is always fun. I used also a new camera to make this 360º panoramic photo of the beautiful exhibition at UTSA ArtSpace.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/114025716@N06/29958842290/in/dateposted-public/
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/IOL-Camera-Panoramic/10049409
I'm waiting for many nice new panoramic photos from all over the world in second life :)