Mercedes releases more 360-degree videos for iPad
Though the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed is now no more than a memory, Mercedes-Benz has launched a new iPad app to allow fans to relive some of the magic through interactive 360-degree videos.
The special cameras were mounted on the helmet of Anthony Davidson as he drove a Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 car up the Goodwood Hill and the footage they captured can be viewed on users’ devices to provide a unique view of a F1 car taking on the Hill.
By utilising the gyroscopic sensors already mounted in the iPad, the app can respond to tilt inputs. Tilting the iPad up, for example, will change the camera angle and with the new angle, the sound will change. Because the audio was recorded with directional microphones, the soundtrack could be matched to the view direction. As a result, looking towards the rear of the car will produce a different sound to looking towards the front.
App users also get the chance to view 360-degree videos of the hill taken from a W 125 Silver Arrow F1 car from 1937, a Sauber-Mercedes C9 from 1987 and a contemporary SLS AMG Black Series, while the app houses the bonus feature of an interactive, time-lapse film of the building of this year’s Goodwood sculpture, which was sponsored by the Three-pointed Star.
The app takes the total number of interactive, 360-degree Mercedes-Benz films to 11.