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Welcome to the community website of the IVRPA

- the International VR Photography Association

The IVRPA is an international association of professionals who create and produce interactive, immersive images.

This website showcases both our members and vr photography community enthusiasts, and serves as a central place for news and communication for the vr industry. Members and vr enthusiast are encouraged to create an account and/or sign in and participate on the website.

Latest news:

IVRPA Member's Chat - 15th April 17:00 UTC

Posted by Ian Wood. on Mon, 2008-04-07 03:24
All IVRPA members were invited to an online chat, on Tuesday 15th April.

On the agenda for this chat were two main topics:
The IVRPA presence at Photokina, this year's 'conference'.
The IVRPA and the IAPP

We welcome your input, suggestions, and comments and how you feel the organizations might better serve you and each other an the international public.

Please see the thread in the member's forum a link to the transcript.
Regards,
The IVRPA Board of Directors
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VRMAG is back!

Submitted by Aldo Hoeben on Mon, 2007-12-03 11:18.

VRMAG, one of the VR industry's institutions, is back after a small hiatus. From Marco Trezzini's announcement:

You're just a click away from VRMAG's relaunch issue 28:
the most complete ever published with 45 articles, 11 contributing
writers and panoramas from 29 contributing photographers.

In addition to the simplified and interactive panorama navigation we
added a panoramic leaflet, as a new navigation method to access to
the articles. VRMAG also has a new blog and a Yahoo group.

http://www.vrmag.org

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A Euro flavor to IVRPA

Submitted by Michael Quan on Wed, 2007-11-28 15:11.

Congratulations to the 2008 IVRPA Board of Directors.

http://ivrpa.org/elections/bod2008

The election is over and the membership has elected these SEVEN:

1. Ian Wood
2. Aldo Hoeben
3. Matthias Taugwalder
4. Michael Quan
5. Jan van der Woning
6. Gene Cooper
7. Jeffrey Martin

Thanks to all those who ran for the board and our 2007 board members. The new board will
officially take office on 1 January 2008.

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Call for 2008 Board of Director Candidates, Election Information

Posted by Michael Quan. on Sat, 2007-10-27 03:30

Update 12 nov 2007: The elections are now open! If you are a current member, you can vote here
Update 27 nov 2007: The elections are over. Thanks for voting.

Get Involved!

Each year seven members of the IVRPA board of directors are elected by
the general membership. Starting immediately IVRPA will
begin accepting candidate statements from IVRPA members who wish to serve on the 2008-2009
board. (Check the members-only forum section for candidate statements).

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World Wide Panorama - Sustenance (19-23 Sep 2007)

Posted by Landis Bennett. on Tue, 2007-09-18 20:04

The next event in the World Wide Panorama begins tomorrow, September 19.

- The theme is "Sustenance". Interpret it any way you wish, literally or imaginatively.

- Photography must be done during the period September 19 through 23 (local time and date).

- The prep server will open for submissions tomorrow also, and close for final editing on October 5.

See http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp/practical/NextEvent.... for more information.

The WWP team:
Don Bain
Landis Bennett
Markus Altendorff
Thomas Rauscher

http://www.WorldWidePanorama.com

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2007 IVRPA Conference in Berkeley: Videos & DVDs now available!

Posted by Robert C. Fisher. on Mon, 2007-09-17 18:52

The 2007 IVRPA Panoramic Photography Conference was a huge success, with over 100 attendees, lots of informative sessions and great informal get-togethers -- , everyone had a great time! During the conference, IVRPA member Robert Fisher shot over 40 hours of video of the sessions which we are now offering to both members and non-members. We are charging a bit of money for them in an effort to break even on the cost for the time & materials it takes to produce the videos. We have tried to keep the purchase price as low as possible so everyone may benefit.

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PanoTools Meeting 2007 in Lucerne/Switzerland

Submitted by Matthias Taugwalder on Tue, 2007-06-19 20:04.

As our conference in Berkeley slowly comes to its end, the preparations for next panoramic gathering in Europe just started: From August 8th to 10th the PanoTools Meeting 2007 takes place in Lucerne/Switzerland with a series of talks. There will be also two days of excursions to Zermatt which lies right in the heart of the Swiss Alps, on foot of the famous Matterhorn.

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IVRPA Panoramic Photography Contest 2007: Print Results!

Posted by cheathamlane. on Tue, 2007-06-19 15:35

Hi everyone!

I want to thank everyone, again, for their interest and enthusiasm surrounding the IVRPA Panoramic Photography Contest. All winning print images and interactive presentations were announced during the banquet Sunday night and applauded mightily. Congratulations to all.

The Print panoramas were printed and mounted, courtesy of IVRPC sponsor Pictopia.com.

By popular demand the IVRPA will have the contest gallery back in place soon (sometime after the conference ends).

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Conference VRs

Submitted by Aldo Hoeben on Sun, 2007-06-17 13:31.

About 100 of us are having a great time here in Berkeley. The official opening of the conference is today, but many attended the VR 101 workshop on friday as well as the vendor demonstrations and WWP reception yesterday. To share in our 'wealth', we are posting VRs of the conference on the conference site:
http://conference.ivrpa.org/gallery

'Wish you were here...'

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IVRPA Panoramic Photography Contest 2007: Vote Now!

Posted by cheathamlane. on Wed, 2007-06-06 03:54

Hey folks!

The contest has proved extremely popular, with approximately 150 entries each in the Print and Interactive categories! THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to enter. I am absolutely pleased with the interest, and floored by many of the images I have seen. Regrettably, I couldn't enter the contest nor am I a judge -- next year! :-) ...read on!

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