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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.

Panoramic view Space Needle Park, Seattle, WA

Build in 1962 for the World's fair, the Space needle is a 184m high building in Seattle, WA.
The panorama was shot from the small park west of the Space Needle handhold (without a tripod).

Nikon D700, Sigma 8mm/3.5, ISO200, 1/320s, f/9

Panoramic view Space Needle Fountain, Seattle, WA

Build in 1962 for the World's fair, the Space needle is a 184m high building in Seattle, WA.
The panorama was shot between the fountain and the Space Needle handhold (without a tripod).

This place is also quite busy and I had to wait about 15min to get a view not covered
completly from the cars waiting for valet parking.

The website has undergone another migration to a fresh new host. Unfortunately things were just not working out for us at mosso, and we're having to move in order to do what we want with the site.

This time our choice is Dreamhost, or more specifically Dreamhost PS. Their services have been tried and tested by the World Wide Panorama project. A big "thank you" to Markus Altendorff for sharing his experience.

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.

At long last, I have implemented an automated system for handling payments from users of the sites becoming a member and/or renewing their membership. Before this, for years, our treasurer was handling each payment manually. This caused (mostly minor) delays, and some confusion among our paying 'customers' (that means you, members!) when payments did not have that 'instant gratification' of getting member privileges.