Beta Consumer Gigapan

In conjunction with Charmed Labs, we've just announced a public beta for the GigaPan robotic camera mount. The device is capable of capturing multi-gigapixel , explorable panoramas with most off-the-shelf digital cameras. Introductory pricing for the beta device is $279. We're looking for people to help! If you're interested and have time to capture lots of panoramas in the next couple of months, please apply here no later than October 19. Applicants will be informed by October 26.

We hope the availability of a low-cost, portable device will encourage the creation of many high-resolution panoramas.  Coupled with Gigapan spatial browsing software, community users will be able to dynamically explore, annotate and share these high-resolution panoramic images with other members in real time.

Also, to further our mission to make gigapixel imaging ubiquitous, we will also be posting an open source reference design for a Gigapan device that you can build at home using the controller that will be sold by Charmed Labs.