iPhone 4 gets gyro-powered panorama viewing in Safari, thanks to 360 Panorama

The latest mobile version of Safari supports some gyroscope-powered HTML hackery that allows users to view panoramic photos on the web. If you've got an iOS device with a gyroscope and iOS 4.2 -- i.e. an iPhone 4 or current-gen iPod Touch -- you can test it for yourself, thanks to Occipital, maker of the 360 Panorama app.

Occipital is the first company to take advantage of this HTML-plus-gyroscope magic, allowing you to explore any 360 Panorama photo by spinning around as if you were really there. In Occipital's demo, you can also see the original photos on Twitpic, or locate them on a map using Apple's own Maps app.

To experience this for yourself, point the mobile version Safari to Occipital's demo image.

By the way, Occipital calls this feature "augmented reality," but that's an extremely loose use of the term. Augmented reality apps usually add an information layer to a user's real-life surroundings, using the camera or other viewing device. The Safari panorama viewer doesn't do that: it just lets you view a virtual representation of a scene as if you were there.

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