TourWrist
Do you enjoy looking at 360� panoramic photography? If so, then check out TourWrist, a web site that offers geo-tagged panoramic images for your perusal, similar to previously mentioned Panoye. Unlike Panoye, however, TourWrist also offers a free iPhone app that makes consuming/viewing panoramas easy and spontaneous, by putting in the palm of your hand (and your pocket), and offering an interactive �immersive� view from every conceivable angle.
But TourWrist seems to be difference from the usual community upload/sharing services (e.g. Panoye) in a number of other respects, most notably the fact that it�s panoramas (called �tours�) seem to be much more polished and professionally produced than most of what you would typically found on the web. Moreover, while the topics covered include many �cultural� and artistic images, which is what I expected to see, the majority of images (19,000 out of approx. 24,000) seem to be of a commercial nature (restaurants, resorts, hotels shopping, and the like).
This is not necessarily a negative in and of itself (imagine being able to get a 360� panoramic preview of many close by restaurants while you are travelling, for example), but it does lend the app a certain commercial quality that limits its appeal as an image browsing tool for pure photographic enjoyment. This commercial quality is also reinforced by the site�s unexpected focus on hawking panoramic photography equipment and on linking users with professional photographers; but in any case it�s not to say that the app (esp. the iPhone app) isn�t a lot of fun to play with. It certainly is.
The quality of the images is simply outstanding, and I was surprised to be able to browse every single image from every conceivable angle, (i.e. �Immersive view�, up and down and around, and not just left and right). Images are not published by a user community but rather obtained in two ways; professional photographers providing images via direct uploading (or using the TourWrist Publishing API), and large imports of existing panoramic databases.
TourWrist is supported via a �freemium� model, which seems complicated but makes a distinction between whether you are a normal �amateur� user/consumer of images, or whether you are a
The iOS app: is very nicely done, esp. rotating the device to scroll across the panorama (optional, but a very nice touch). I also like the fact that it has a search box. The only strange thing about it though is that I was not able to get to some images which I saw on the website when I attempted a search on the iPhone.
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