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IVRPA Board of Directors

The current IVRPA steering body was inaugurated in January 2008, and is made up of the following members:

Michael Quan

Role
President
Location
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Contact
617.500.7520 or send an email
Company
Interactive Tactical Group
Biography
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Mike has been a board member of the IVRPA for several terms. He is president and founder of Interactive Tactical Group, Inc, (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), a security and defense consulting firm.

Quan got his start in VR, when he produced the VR content of Harvard University's virtual tour.

Ian Wood

Role
Secretary
Location
Dawlish, Devon, United Kingdom
Contact
01626 867211 or send an email
Company
http://www.ianjameswood.co.uk
Biography
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In 1996 Ian went back to university as a way of changing careers. During the degree he discovered panoramic photography and started building large wooden cameras. After graduating in 2000 he became involved with stitched panoramic photography and was immediately pulled in to the field by the breadth of possibilities for image-making that it opened.

In 2004 Ian's first large-scale commission took place, creating big panoramic images for use in Barclays Bank's new world headquarters in London's Docklands. This body of work can be seen on the Landmarks of Britain website. Several long-term commissions have followed.

As a moderator on two panorama-related email lists and one of the initiators of the annual PanoTools meetings Ian is heavily involved in the panoramic community.

Ian is also the author of Pano2Movie, software for generating video sequences from QTVR panoramas.

Aldo Hoeben

Role
Webmaster
Location
Schiedam, , Netherlands
Contact
+31 10 426 7327 or send an email
Company
fieldOfView
Biography
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Aldo Hoeben has been involved in panoramic photography since 1996. Over the years, he deployed several different viewing technologies, discovering the merits and limitations of each technology. With a steady development of mainstream computer graphics hardware and the arrival of broadband internet, the time to initiate new innovations in the field of panoramic imaging has come. This is why Aldo started to develop the SPi-V engine; a hardware accelerated panorama viewing engine, based on Macromedia's acclaimed Shockwave technology.

In 2006, Aldo joined the IVRPA Board of Directors and was responsible for designing and implementing the new IVRPA community website, based on the open source Drupal CMS.

For more information about fieldOfView or the SPi-V engine, please visit http://fieldofview.com

Gene Cooper

Role
Director
Location
Vallejo, CA, United States
Contact
480-980-5034 or send an email
Company
Four Chambers Studio / 360parks.com
Biography
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Gene Cooper is the president of Four Chambers Studio specializing in development of photographic VR interactive content for National Parks. Projects range from virtual tour photography for online websites to high resolution laser scanning to interactive terrain modeling to custom interactive systems programming to aerial photography to full production of custom interactive CDROMs and DVDs. Cooper's company works with numerous public agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Army Core of Engineers, as well as numerous profit and non-profit organizations including the Grand Canyon Association, Phoenix Arts Commission, Western National Parks Association, Mesa Arts Center, and ACM Siggraph. Cooper currently serves as a board member of the International Virtual Reality Photographers Association. Cooper received his training and degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute in Photography and Video (BFA) and from Arizona State University in Interactive Art (MFA).

Cooper also works as an interactive installation artist who is focused on exploring the relationships existing between the natural systems of the body and ecology as mediated through technology. Cooper's work takes the form of interactive installations and performances which focus on the connections between systems of the body such as breathing, heartbeats, electrical impulses, etc. and natural or environmental systems such as lightning, water dynamics, ecosystemic properties, etc.

Jeffrey Martin

Role
Director
Location
Prague, , Czech Republic
Contact
- or send an email
Company
Prague 360
Biography
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I have been a VR photographer for about five years. I am the founder of 360 Cities, the world's largest VR network. I have lived in Prague for the past 8 years. An american by birth, I've also lived in the UK and Germany.

Matthias Taugwalder

Role
Director
Location
Zurich, , Switzerland
Contact
+41 79 744 58 55 or send an email
Company
Concept360
Biography
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Matthias Taugwalder (1981) grew up in Zermatt/Switzerland. After his master studies in Business Informatics at the University of Zurich he now works and lives in Zurich. His company Concept360 provides internet and photography services, with a special focus on alpine panoramas and high-resolution photography.

Recent projects include different exhibitions, for instance one on behalf of the Swiss National Museums. He is also a member of the board of directors of the IVRPA (International VR Photography Association).

Jan van der Woning

Role
Director
Location
Duivendrecht, NH, Netherlands
Contact
+31 20 6977150 or send an email
Company
Studio Jan van der Woning
Biography
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Jan van der Woning wanted to become a photographer when he made his first picture at age sixteen and became a professional at the age of 25 when he got his grade for photography from the Dutch "Fotovakschool". He also studied at Hans Goetze, now the Academy for Photography. Most of his work is commercial but in 1999 he started to make 396 degrees panoramic images and the work shifted more to editorial and interactive photography for websites and CD-Roms and DVDs. His work is also bougth as artwork in medium and large sizes and sold at artmarkets and in galleries.

He speaks 3 languages fluently and 3 fairly well so communication during travel is not a problem. He travelled through many countries in Europe, North and Central Africa and the United States including Alaska. He also was in Middle and South America and in Borneo, Indonesia for WWF and Greenpeace to make panoramas of illegal logging. And he made an expedition to the Antarctic as part of an art project.

Jan likes to shoot landscapes and people. He thinks the nicest moment of the day is the twilight zone and a lot of his pictures are taken in this short but beautiful period. On the Antarctic the sun downs lasted for hours so this was a real "Eldorado".

In addition, the IVRPA Board of Directors would like to extend its gratitude to the following members for their help and involvement:

Kat Bennett

Role
Treasurer
Location
Richmond, CA, United States
Company
360Geographics
Biography

I am a cartographer in the Bay Area of California working for a travel book publishing company Avalon Travel Publishing.

During university in the geography program at Cal I learned from Don Bain how to make panoramas. With my husband, Landis Bennett, I try to travel as much as possible to as many places as possible to take a pano. As a geographer I find that panorama technology is the best way to show all aspects of a landscape, physical and cultural.