IPIX demise
The Knoxville News Sentinel has posted a more in-depth article from their Sunday edition about the demise of IPIX, including an abbreviated, but interesting timeline for the company.
You can read about it here:
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/business/article/0,1406,KNS_376_4895460,00.h...
One of the News Sentinel photographs appearing with the article (of the IPIX design team, "viewed through an (IPIX) fisheye lens"), unfortunately suffers from the same lack of quality (lots of dust specks, flare, etc.) that was a shortcoming of many IPIX images. I'm not sure whether this was chosen intentionally by the News Sentinel to accompany this article for this reason or not.
Any guesses on how much the IPIX patent portfolio might go for? Together, do you think we could come up with the funds, so we could release the patents into the public domain as a service to the VR community? (grin)
Food for thought, anyway...
Scott Highton
Author, Virtual Reality Photography
Web: http://www.vrphotography.com
Hey, you're famous
Submitted by Aldo Hoeben on Mon, 2006-08-07 18:26.From the article:
> "They made some mistakes and offended a number of people
> in the VR community," Highton said. "Their patent litigation
> served to stifle a lot of innovation."
>
> Phillips, who served as Ipix CEO from 1997 to 2001, defended
> the company's tactics. "You either get aggressive on your
> patents or you go out of business," he said.
Or you get aggressive and then go out of business...
Count me in.
Submitted by Ian Wright on Mon, 2006-08-07 19:20.Count me in for £200 ($360) if you want to try and get together the funds.
And im serious.
Ian
www.QuickTimeVirtualReality.com