I haven’t played with a lot of mobile panorama-creation apps, but I find Microsoft’s free Photosynth app for iPhone pretty amazing. It captures still images as you pan around, automatically stitching (and optionally uploading) the results.
The example of an aviation museum is especially well chosen: I distinctly remember my deep, painful frustration trying to photograph rockets at the Air & Space Museum as a kid. I’d have found something like this unspeakably wonderful.
Aside: How do companies like Microsoft & Adobe profit by developing advanced technology & then simply giving it away? It’s like First CityWide Change Bank: Volume.
biggest problem is that I don’t want to share via live or facebook. it needs to have better “save/export” features.
Really nice, and of course, you share it on bing, on your iOs or windows phone, but definitely not on google maps or android :/
@j: Hi. You don’t have to post your panos to Facebook, it’s your choice. A flattened pano version is automatically saved to your camera roll.
I wish digital cameras were more open so apps like this and SynthCam could be used on real cameras.