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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 offers one of the most innovative motorized panoramic heads, the MK PanoMachine.
Unlike conventional panorama heads, our innovative system allows for not only automatic horizontal rotation, but also, with the addition of our automated MK PanoMachine VD, vertically, making multi-row photography simple and trouble free, and providing you with perfect results every time.
In addition, we offer in cooperation with Berlebach Stativtechnik panoramic tripod heads with click-stops which can be motorized - made in Germany.
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.
krpano is a small, versatile and high-performance viewer for interactive 3D panoramas on the web. It is based on the cross platform Adobe Flash Player, the world's most popular software platform for interactive software.
krpano supports all kind of panoramic formats for display - 360x180 formats like equirectangular/spherical images, cubical panoramas with 6 images or one imagestrip, cubical QTVR .mov files, and also partial and flat panoramas/images, it would be possible to display also Zoomify images with krpano.
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.
GigaPan Systems was established in 2008 as a commercial spin-off of a successful collaboration between researchers at NASA and Carnegie Mellon University that developed the breakthrough GigaPan System for creating high-resolution panoramic images. GigaPan Systems was founded to bring this powerful, high-resolution imaging capability to a broad audience.
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.
Voyager delivers enterprise-level virtual tour services and custom-configured virtual tour camera kits and training to businesses around the world. Established in 1997, Voyager International has grown to serve more than 42,917 customers, 903 professional photographers and 11 Fortune 500 customers. Voyager's VPiX™ was originally created in 2001 but was upgraded to a cloud server in 2009 to serve the demand for HD and HDR panoramas and more interactive features.
Tour Wrist is a location search engine empowering the panoramic photographer community through a paradigm-shifting new approach to exposure and direct monetization of each photographer's work. By changing the way users interact with, appreciate, create, share, and benefit from panoramic imagery, we are positioning this market for mainstream user adoption. hare, and benefit from panoramic imagery, SPARK LABS is helping position this market for mainstream user adoption.
Pixeet provides free hosting to showcase and manage your panoramas on smartphones, tablets or the Internet.
Pixeet also provides 2 size of miniaturized fisheye lenses to create 360 spherical panorama (top to ceiling) from smartphones (iPhone, Android,...), tablets (iPad, Galaxy,…) or compact cameras without any third party equipment or software.
SkiVR, based in France, gets you the best hardware and software available on the market to build great panoramas. We distribute/resell different manufacturers such as Nodal Ninja, Sunex, Gigapan, Panogear, and also software editors: Kolor, Easypano...
We speak French and English. We also offer panorama shooting services.
Easypano is a software developer specialized in panorama software and virtual tour software. Main products include Panoweaver, Tourweaver and Modelweaver.
Panoweaver can stitch any type of photos into 360 degree panoramic photo, and convert panorama to swf, or Html-based Flash VR and QTVR.
Tourweaver can create Flash virtual tour with panoramic photos in a customized virtual tour template, integrating Flash, video, popup windows, hotspots.
Modelweaver builds Flash/QuickTime object VR movies from your digital photos or video.
Bssmat for E-Investment is one of the largest companies specializing in e-marketing industry in the Middle East and has branches in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates.
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.
