Most iPhone J.D. readers access this site from a computer, but I have something really neat to show you on your iPhone or iPad. Go to this page on your iOS device:
http://www.apple.com/retail/grandcentral/
That's the page for the brand new Apple Store in Grand Central Station in New York. On that page, on the left, click on "View More Photos." You will see a list of photos on the right. Click on the bottom right photo, this one that I have a yellow circle around:
The picture that comes up is a 360º picture. Using the gyroscope in your iPhone or your iPad, you can move your device, and as you do so, the picture adjusts too just as if you were standing there in the middle of Grand Central Station and your iPhone or iPad was your view to the world. You can even point your device all the way up to look at the ceiling. Very cool stuff. According to Matthew Panzarino at The Next Web, this works with an iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2 or iPod touch 4G.
By the way, you can also see this picture in some browsers on a computer, such as Safari on a Mac. On a computer, you can click and drag to manually move the photo around. But that is not nearly as cool as tilting or moving your iPhone or iPad and feeling ... almost ... as if you are actually there.
Kudos to Apple. This is really neat.