Carlos Chegado's blog

This piece of news stunned me today, not because of the stunning technical developments of Canon but actually because they care to mention Panoramas in it!

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/canon-expo.shtml

Scroll down to the part about Ultra Hight-Resolution Panorama Camera to see what I mean...

Another nice touch are the large circular displays and the notice that 4K video is on his way to the consumers hands.

That will definitely make 360º video look great!

Seems the future is bright after all...

There was a thread in the Panotools-Meeting mail list discussing the differences between IVRPA Conferences and Panotools Meetings and I decided to write a post stating my point of view.

PS: I would like to make clear before proceeding that I don't defend the merge of the two events, they should continue independent and I appreciate both the Panotools Meetings and the IVRPA Conferences.

Let's see how they stand, IVRPA conferences vs Panotools meetings (according to my personal point of view and I attended both events already as you know):

1) Who runs it?

Volunteers in both cases.

Today I decided to look back at the first half of the IVRPA year and see if I was achieving my goals as an IVRPA Director or not.

This was my candidate statement: http://ivrpa.org/forum/members/3063

Internal organizational issues:

• Keep the weekly BoD meetings by video-conference during 2010.
• Setup a collaboration system to organize tasks between BoD members and volunteers.
• Replace the non-functional committees by delegating tasks to volunteers managed with the collaboration system.

Fresh after my summer vacations I am trying to catch up with the ongoing activity of the IVRPA Board of Directors (BoD).

I am used to an IVRPA BoD that never sleeps (because of the different time zones we are in), now I am getting used to an IVRPA BoD that never rests (no vacations for the BoD).

Tucson 2010 - The International Panoramic Photography conference just started.

Here is the link to Jook Leung talk in PDF format: http://360vr.com/tucson2010/Jook-Leung-The-Panoramic-Narrative.pdf

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.