Carlos Chegado's blog

Check this website to surf the big image:

http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com

Check how it was made here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VfeGLxUlU0

What you think?
Is it worthed?
Write your comments below.

Update: I just found another candidate to the world record:

http://www.360cities.net/prague-18-gigapixels

The reason why I have been quite busy lately was this:

http://www.360cities.net/image/palmela-expo-centro-historico-patrimonios...

My company produced this exposition for Palmela Castle about the history of the place from the middle age until present and this will be on display at St. James Church in Palmela Castle until summer 2010.

It involved working long ours for about a week and my team responded very well and we managed to get everything ready in time in the inauguration day.

List of 360º panoramas in 360cities from this expo:

The 2009 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Photo Safari is SOLD OUT.

We are happy that many IVRPA members are joining us for 5 days of running around between shooting hot air balloons at 4:00am in the morning, watching the talks at Plaza Inn Hotel conference room during the day and socialize during the scheduled nightly events!

The speaker list will be announced soon, and many IVRPA members will be featured speakers showing that indeed the IVRPA is alive and kicking, we thank those who offered to be speakers in this event noting that this is a volunteer action that we appreciate.

Yes, six months have passed already!

Before I start, let me say how proud I am to be part of this community, thank you!
The VR world in general is a vibrant and creative environment, it's a challenge to keep working ahead of the curve, hence, having a community such as this is fundamental to exchange information and learn with each other.

When I decided to candidate myself to the BoD my main goals where:

1) Help defining a strategy for the IVRPA.
2) See what more can we do to showcase the work of our members.

Traditionally, interactive VR images have been shown in a way that the mouse was used to point the direction that you want to spin around, just look at any interactive QTVR image shown here at ivrpa.org as an example.
Google Streetview introduced the drag mode in witch basically the user drags the image to spin it around. This is the opposite behavior to the way we are used too.

If you happen to be around Switzerland next weekend (May 2) or plan to be there in the next 6 months, do not miss the exhibition on the Nidwalder Museum in Stans.

http://www.nidwaldner-museum.ch/dynamic/page_detail.asp?seiid=9&nwcid=60

This exhibition will feature a Gigapixel Print sized 2,5x24 meters from the Swiss Alps shot by Matthias Taugwalder about two months ago.

The rise of Social Web to every corner of the Internet is undeniably this days and I have noted that the IVRPA is also starting to ride this trend.

You can follow the IVRPA on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ivrpa
On LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1906190
And on Facebook starting today: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67806473343

Is this good or bad for the IVRPA?

I think that spreading the word about the IVRPA is a good thing and social networks may help other people interested in VR Photography know what we do and possibly join in as members of our association.

Many of you noticed last January that our website then hosted at http://bluehost.com suffered some outages when they decided that ivrpa.org was using too much resources, particularly they blamed MySQL queries and took us off the air.

On our very first Board of Directors chat meeting, three Committees where created:

Website Committee (Web Team)

Matthias Taugwalder
Carlos Chegado
Aaron Spence
and Aldo Hoeben

Cooperation with other associations

Jan van der Woning
with members from the general membership

IVRPA and Identity Committee

Jürgen Schrader
Willy Kaemena
Jan van der Woning

These Committees are not closed, volunteers from the general member base are welcomed to help with our efforts in pushing the association forward.

Hi again,

Sorry for being too lazy to update my blog here at IVRPA.org, I will try to redeem myself in the near future.

But first I would like to say a word to all IVRPA members that I have personally met in Prague and in the last two editions of Photokina, you are a great bunch of people and a talented one too, it is a great pleasure to be part of this community and I look forward to see many of you next October in Albuquerque or in the mean time some of you in Timisoara/Romania at the Panotools Meeting.