This is really old news. Back in 1999, Cyclovision released Parashot, which was a parabolic mirror lens for Agfa and Nikon cameras. We used it to take pictures for real estate agents to do virtual 360 walkthroughs of houses.
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This is really old news. Back in 1999, Cyclovision released Parashot, which was a parabolic mirror lens for Agfa and Nikon cameras. We used it to take pictures for real estate agents to do virtual 360 walkthroughs of houses.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/9906/99061401parashot.asp
Michael
It's a wee bit older than that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphosis