Mirror based 360 cameras

Collated by Paul Bourke


The following gallery contains photographs of panorama cameras employing planar mirrors. The motivation for such cameras is to co-locate the zero parallax points for each camera, thus facilitating stitching. If you are aware of other systems please forward to the author for inclusion.



Disney Circle-Vision camera, circa 1955







Original Circarama camera, circa 1950

Built by Ub Iwerks



Omnicam 360.

Fraunhofer’s Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin



Unknown



Paradise FX

Circa 2015



TotaVision camera

 



Unknown (Chinese artist)