Michael Quan's blog

The 2010 International Conference on Computational Photography
is at MIT, March 28-30, 2010. Anyone attending? I will be there.
http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/iccp10

Just a quick note to all my IVRPA friends,
I will not be returning to the IVRPA board of directors
next year. I think it's good for me to take "leave" of
the IVRPA official duties and let others lead the organization.
It's been a great privilege to serve on the leadership of the
organization, but like all volunteer groups, it can be a challenge.
It's Time for a breather.

I hope many of you who know me will consider serving on the board,
and contributing to IVRPA -- to promote our work, to educate the public, and

http://www.ambassadors.everyscape.com/about

EveryScape is launching their ambassador program for road coverage and interior photography
of businesses. It's a very ambitious global approach and EveryScape has some serious money to start the ball rolling.

It's not the highest quality VR imaging, but they are looking to produce many, many, many panoramas
of communities and businesses.

http://www.clevr.com/pano/3345

http://www.bluedashertech.com/

Another player in the street visualization field that uses MS Virtual Earth AND a form
of DevalVR player.

http://www.devalvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=625

It's going to get crowded on the streets with all these street mapping companies. Keep
both hands on the wheel and avoid gawking as their vehicles pass by :-)

I have been having a lot of sick fun dumping bags and bags of negatives, slides, and contact sheets
out with the trash. All the stuff is pre-digital and has been gathering dust and taking up space,
some of it has been sitting around for 20+ years (remember Kodak Tri-x or Kodachrome slides...)

My estimate is that I've dumped close to 100 pounds (40 kilos?) of images in the past month.
Of course, there are many more bags to dump in the months ahead.
My trick is to drop it on the curb while the garbage man is only a few houses away. That way,

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.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-go...

There's a nice shot of the 4 camera array that everyscape atop their vehicle.

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/11/20/arts/20071120_TIMES_GRAPHI...

The New York Times features several full screen flash panos of its new building.
It's great they chose panoramas to show off the new space; I liked panning in
the newsroom image to check out the desks.