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Garden Gnome Software provides software solutions to convert panoramas into popular multimedia formats like Flash and QuickTime VR. Use the multi-platform tool (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), Pano2VR 2.0 to convert panoramic images (cubic and cylindrical formats) while incorporating custom skins and panoramic video. Also available is the Windows-only tool, Pano2QTVR, that gives you the ability to export object movies to Flash and QuickTime VR.
The fieldOfView products range from virtual tours to to tailormade immersive technologies and experiences.
Active research and development of their in house developed panoramic engine SPi-V provides them with insights and expertise also applicable in simpler projects. With a background in web- and interaction design, their expertise extends beyond that of immersive imaging into the fields of usability and human-computer interaction.
SPi-V is fieldOfView's hardware accelerated panoramic viewing engine. The engine was built on a solid and extensible multimedia core provided by Macromedia's acclaimed Shockwave 3D.
Kolor is a software company specialized in all types of image stitching. Kolor is the creator of Autopano Pro, the leading program for panorama creation and image stitching for the general public. Autopano software range also includes the new Autopano Giga, dedicated to gigapixel panorama and virtual tour creation, and Autopano Server, a world exclusive solution that integrates a command-line image stitching service into websites and servers.
Kolor has many exciting projects for the upcoming months.
EyeSee360 is the technology leader in single-shot panoramic imaging for both still and video photography. EyeSee360 has applied decades of research in robotic vision, image rendering, and software interface expertise to the challenge of creating interactive panoramic still images and videos. EyeSee360, Inc. (formerly Telemersion, LLC) was founded in 1998 as an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University, and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.
Our team has decades of experience in imaging and computer vision through the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
360desktop(tm) is the convergence of the web and the desktop. If you "get" what they mean by Web 2.0, you can think of us as Desktop 2.0.
360desktop was built to allow users to easily grab their favorite web content from across the web, and put it right on their expanded desktop, while giving partners a more effective way to deliver their interactive Web content, beyond the browser, directly to their user.
PTGui is panoramic stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX. Originally developed as a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools (hence the name), PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application.
Use PTGui to stitch any number of photos into a panoramic image.
360 Tactical VR Ltd are specialists in supplying 360 Immersive Imaging Solutions for businesses / police / security forces. 360 Tactical VR have formed strategic partnerships with the world’s leading developers of 360 panoramic imaging products to bring you a complete single source solution for all your VR imaging requirements.
Nodal Ninja is an award winning lightweight compact panorama tripod head. Awards, reviews and testimonials are second to none.
From single row panoramas to multi-row high resolution giga-pixel mosaics, we offer product solutions to all panoramic photographers. Our pano heads, rotators and levelers satisfy the needs of entry level enthusiasts to top level professionals. Built to extremely high tolerances with precision CNC machined parts, the build quality and features offered truly are the best value for money spent of any pano head in the market today.
MK Panorama Systeme, Germany well known since 1998 for panoramic photography solutions.
MK Panorama Systeme offers with the new MK PanoHead, MK PanoClick as well as with the brand-new MK PanoGiga tree fine mechanical precision and high- quality 360° panorama tripod heads on the world market.
And our MK PanoMachine version 5.0 sets a milestone in digital panorama photography.
The PanoMachine is an automatic rotating VR head designed to move itself and your camera from one shot to the next - the camera is released exactly in the right position.
Seitz Phototechnik AG of Switzerland is a market leader in fast panoramic equipment and has been an innovator in 360° solutions for over 50 years.
Seitz' products include automated virtual reality equipment (VR Drive) as well as 360° panoramic scanning cameras (Seitz D3 Digital Scan Back) for high speed and high resolution.
With Tour Wrist™, you hold the world in the palm of your hand. Just load a location and wave your smartphone around to view it. Your device will do the heavy-lifting as it transforms your screen into a portal. Point your phone up to see the sky, down to see the ground, or do a 360 to watch the world spin.
