[vimeo https://vimeo.com/35552475 w=550&h=197]

Navigate through panoramic (or other large photos) by looking around: look left, right, up, and down to pan in that direction. Move closer to the screen to zoom in, or farther away to zoom out. When you’re tired of looking at a picture, simply yawn and a new image appears.

This project makes use of the rotation data, scale, and mouth size provided by FaceOSC, but runs up against the limits of the underlying tracker to detect non-frontal faces.  With some practice, you can learn to pan without losing the tracking. If the face is lost, a red dot appears in the lower corner to let you know. With tweaks to the panning thresholds and acceleration, I think it’s actually a reasonably good alternative interface for viewing large images.

The video features images I took of Schenley Park, the dinosaur outside the Carnegie Library, Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park, and the Gates-Hillman Center on CMU’s campus. The panoramas were created several semesters ago as part of a class project.