Panoramas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAkXQUaawLg

This is a hand held video of the Intel keynote speech at CES,
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The demo includes
panoramas of the Intel offices in Beijing produced by Everyscape;
the panoramas are used to help a traveler negotiate an unknown urban
landscape to find a destination.

More power, and more panoramas, please.

Hi everyone!

September 15, 2007 inaugurates the first "VR 101" class to be given at Looking Glass Photo in Berkeley!

Landis Bennett and myself will be taking 6-8 people and showing them the ropes; From choosing a location, to setting up, to shooting, and on to post-production, we'll (hopefully! :-P) be providing a good basis for people to take their own point-and-shoots or DSLRs into the field for some of that crazy panoramic fun...

A while back, I posted about a job down in Los Angeles... After 9 months or so, it looks like the photography/virtual tour is about to go live... Almost! :-)

Santa Fe, NM, USA — Scene in Santa Fe LLC is glad to announce insurer FM Global has licensed five high resolution panoramic photographs of Santa Fe, New Mexico for use during a large conference they are hosting this spring at one of Santa Fe's many fine resorts.

The panoramas will be displayed in various formats on a 40 foot, high definition video screen.

...Of course, if anyone had actually _had_ an iPhone, things might have been different. ;-)

Thanks to all who came to Berkeley for our most recent meeting -- we had quite a turnout! I wasn't doing a head count, but there were upwards of 20 (30?) people at CheathamLane's digs. Next time, I'll make sure to find a reputable pizza delivery...

This is an update to my earlier post regarding the sudden decision by Apple to disable by default any Flash content/tracks embedded in a QuickTime movie.

It turns out that Apple's decision is because of "critical vulnerabilities" identified in Flash Player versions 8.0.24.0 and earlier

QuickTime 7.1.3 by default will disable any Flash media embedded in a QuickTime movie. spinControl:VR is an interactive QT movie, and relies heavily on embedded Flash media. So, it appears broken when viewed using the latest QT update. Apple has blindsided potentially thousands of content developers out there who might use Flash media inside their QT movies.

The date for the next California Bay Area get-together is Thursday, October 5 2006 at 7 PM. John Greenleigh has again offered to host the meeting at Flipside Studios in Berkeley . Thanks in advance John! (directions)

Presentations in October will include:
* Kevin O'Connor is one of the country's leading experts on digital workflow and color-management, and will let us know some of the best ways to make color behave. His talk will be excellent for both film and digital shooters.

I was an early adopter & beta tester of Christian Stehle's FlashVR, which allows you to display perspective corrected cylindrical panoramas in Flash. It works best when displaying at small sizes -- because FlashVR is doing lots of masking and math to create the perspective-correct view, and because Flash itself is a processor hog. You can see an example of how I use it at my own site in the gallery, or at a client's site by following the portfolio link there.

Like any software, Stitcher has its quirks and bugs and these are of course most apparent (and annoying) to heavy users (of which I'll consider myself one). The Stitcher team has, over time, addressed many of these quirks/bugs -- but of course new ones always crop up. This isn't surprising for Stitcher or for any piece of software being developed. I develop my own interactive QuickTime 'widget' which is used by many in our VR development community, and constantly have to address its quirks and issues.