WASHINGTON — Cycloramic may be the app that you never knew you needed, but suddenly it’s one of the coolest tools for your iPhone 5.
Place your iPhone upright on a smooth, flat surface – a glass table would be great – then activate the app, like this:
will use your iPhone’s vibrator to slowly and carefully rotate the phone with the camera engaged. The results are 180-degree or 360-degree panoramic photo images or videos, hands-free.
At a party, no one in the room would escape the revolving eye of Cycloramic. Or maybe there’s a more serious use for the app.
A real estate agent who wants to show off the fireplace in the living room and the granite countertops in the adjoining kitchen could place the Cycloramic-loaded iPhone in the center of the space, press the button in the center of the screen and let the phone spin in a circle, taking in all the surroundings.
While the $1.99 app has been around since 2012, it was recently featured on , the reality TV show about potential business investors searching for the next big thing. The TV appearance earned the app’s maker, , a half-million dollar investment and hundreds of thousands of downloads.
Here’s what the WTOP newsroom looks like, using the app:
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