The LG Optimus G Pro Puts The iPhone’s Panorama To Shame [Video]

(9:13 am PDT, Feb 22nd)

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The latest commercial for the Optimus G Pro starts as a homage to Apple’s iPhone 5 ad, “Cheese!”, which famously advertised iOS 6’s Panorama functionality.

Man, though, does LG one-up Apple in this advertisement, not only showing how the Optimus G Pro can create a 180 degree panorama of a scene… you can actually use the camera to stitch together a full 360 panorama as well, which LG calls a VR Panorama.

Here’s the original ‘Cheese’ ad:

And here’s LG’s take:

You have to see this in action to believe it. Even as an Apple fan, this is an impressive trick I would kill to see in iOS 7, if it works even half as well in real life as it does here.

[via MacMagazine

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  • http://www.facebook.com/pierre.vano Peio Vanoverschelde

    Photosynth in the App Store already does that.

    • Alan Holwill

      So does ’360′ even better than Photosynth in my opinion…

  • http://twitter.com/markrlangston Mark Langston

    I believe this entire presentation is suspect. All I saw was a bunch of kids and paint cans on the floor. Where did all that other artwork come from? And how can the camera capture all that content while the kids are moving and one of their hands not appear in another frame?

    I’ve used panorama apps on the iPhone before and they never really turn out that great. I understand this is a commercial and that the perfect environment was created to make this ad but until I see this used in reality I’m keeping my skepticism hat on tight.

  • http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

    Apparently because of all the fugly apps that ANdroid users have to put up with.. they neglect to realize how many wonderful 360 type apps there are for iOS. Comparing a stock app is pretty lame IMHO. Even so, those 360s are rarely as useful as a straight panorama… fun to do but just not that useful. Thats why the panorama on the iPhone is just more useful and a better choice as a stock feature.

    Shared many of those 360 panoramas socially lately? Thought not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steffen-Jobbs/100001574843303 Steffen Jobbs

    Wow! So LG was able to improve on a feature that the iPhone had. Those things do tend to happen. That whole ad was like a duplicate Apple ad but somewhat improved upon. I’m sure many Android smartphones have at least one feature that may be better than the iPhone, but so what does that prove. It only proves that features and applications evolve as time goes by. I’d probably have zero use for that 360 panorama feature, but I guess there are quite a few people that would use it for a while, get bored with it and then they’d be looking for something else like ‘bullet time”.

    • abc905

      Actually they haven’t. In terms of quality the iPhone pano is light years ahead. Why? The iPhone “scans” continuously the image, meaning you will never see a bad stitch or lighting/shadow issues. The Optimus as seen on the ad is still doing the traditional take-pic-and-stitch. So iPhone is better.

  • abc905

    Shame on LG for doing this. Using public ignorance to put their product as better than the iPhone, by using an inherently inferior technology than Apple’s default panorama function. The iPhone, with its custom image processing chip, can scan the panorama directly, without any stitching, so there is no difference whatsoever from a “normal” picture, whereas from LG theres bound to be the expected panorama lighting differences. Typical samsung feature spam.

  • dean

    Still LG.

  • http://twitter.com/ulyssesric Richard Liu

    And the “360 Panorama” App will put both LG and John Brownlee to Shame. Period.

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