Belgacom Skynet is present at a lot of festivals and this year they wanted to do something special for you visitors and festival lovers out there. They took some big-ass cameras and shot a lot of giga-pixel images of wild festival crowds.

We at Appstrakt then took these giga-pixel images and created a great zooming and panning experience around them: the Skynet Generation Festival Sniper. From the biggest mosh pit up to the guy with the crazy hat: everything’s discoverable and in great quality too!

We basically render and serve the original image at different resolutions and each of those versions (essentially the zoom-levels) is cut up in many pieces. The software will then ‘stitch’ the different parts together to give the user a seamless zooming experience.

Users can tag themselves, their friends or some other crazy scene and share these tags on their favorite social networks. The Festival Sniper is also completely deep-linked, so every tag has its own unique URL.

You can try it for yourself; there are more than 50 festival photos available!