Maybe I can chime something here ;-) A camera that will take 5 images simultaneous and stitch in realtime does exist to create a fully immersive video. Here is a link to the site. http://www.ptgrey.com/products/ladybug2/index.asp Unfortunately it costs $10,000.00 USD. :-(
There are other ways to create images from a normal camera for example check out this website: http://www.gigapan.org/ & http://www.gigapan.com/ - They built a robotic system that uses a simple camera to create very big Panoramas. They don't accept images under 50M pixels. I don't know the price for this system. I use a different system Canon 450D with a Fisheye lense and a Panorama head on a tripod to create an Equirectangular image. I then use Pano2VR from Garden Gnome http://www.pano2qtvr.com/ To extract the Cube faces from the Equirectangular images. It would cost you approx. $5000.00 if you had to buy all the gear to get started. But you should be able to do it for under $3000.00 if you buy cheaper equipment and software. Also check out: www.kaidan.com www.immervision.com Kind regards .. Rudolph Thomas
