viewAt: Flash based panoramic photo viewer for your browser

by Brad Linder Sep 27th 2007

Odds are your computer monitor or laptop display isn't really big enough for viewing panoramic photos. That's why Apple released a QuickTime VR application for manipulating huge images in a small window. But if you don't want to install an application just to look at pretty pictures, viewAt lets you view and share panoramic photos using the same plugin your browser uses to access YouTube videos.

The site indexes images uploaded and shared by users. When you first login, you'll see a world map with markers that show where the photos were taken. Click on a marker for more information, and click on an image to bring up a Flash-based panoramic viewer. You can zoom in and out of photos and scroll around the image at various speeds.

The only thing missing is a way to download images. Like we said, your monitor probably isn't large enough to do these images justice without a desktop viewer. But if you wanted to print a panoramic photo or create a desktop background for 360desktop, there's no way to use these images.

[via WebWare]

Tags: images, panorama, panoramic-photo, photos, viewAt

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