Recreating the Javascript-powered 360° VR view from the iPad gallery
html, javascript
Solution
How about this:
Reel is a jQuery plugin which takes an image tag and makes it a live "projection" of pre-built animation frames sequence. Its aim is to provide a 360° view of something or someplace. Great alternative to widely used Flash techniques.
Problem
On the iPad gallery at http://movies.apple.com/ipad/gallery/ there is a nifty 3D-ish view when you click on the "360°"-Button on the lower right. It seems to be built with Prototype, some custom JS and 180 single JPEGs. Now, I don't want to steal Apple's code, but I really would like to have a similar effect. I'm afraid recreating the effect all by myself would be too much for me, so has anybody ever done something like this and released it as open source (or a paid library or something like this)? Integration with jQuery would be an added bonus.