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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.

Online on May 14th, a new version of :
En ligne le 14 mai, une nouvelle version de :

www.imascope360.com

My local camera shop, Looking Glass, held a pinhole photography workshop today in honor of the WPPD. For $5 (five bucks!) you could come with a suitable pinhole camera body (tea tin, oats box, empty can of snuff, whatever), and they'd help you drill a pinhole into it, "load" it with film, give you tips on shooting, and then -- let you use their on-site darkroom to see your masterpiece. Cool!

http://vrtour.robertthien.com/Hedgewood/MenuVRSite/index.html

This is a VRtour put together of Hedgewood Homes in Atlanta, Georgia. We worked on these over the past couple of years. Each VR is a mix of natural and artificial lighting.

Here is an interesting post from Adobe evangelist Serge Jespers, regarding the potential removal ("photoshopping") of a Belgian landmark from photos in an exhibition.

http://www.webkitchen.be/2008/04/07/when-does-copyrighting-go-too-far/

Also, if you follow through the comments, you'll see a (not surprising, I suppose) link to a NYT article regarding photography and other imagery of the Lone Cypress (which is practically a California landmark), use of which is being disputed by the tree's owner: Pebble Beach Company.

There is now a beta for Pano2Movie 2.1 available, with full bezier curve path editing.

http://www.pano2movie.com/beta-versions

I've been pretty quiet on the blog recently, due to a combination of being away for much of February (I went to Australia for a wedding, and met up with Aaron Spence who turned out to live round the corner), re-doing my website (not finished yet) and a bunch of application programming.

Pano2Movie has been getting a bit of attention, with a new beta with bezier curve paths hopefully coming out in the next two weeks.

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

Papervision 3D is an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform; it's "written and maintained by a small core team, and contributed to by its ever-growing community".

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 :-)