gigapixel

Dear all,

For the second time, Kolor will be exhibiting at the Photokina fair in September. We will have quite a big booth this year, and we will be presenting:
- The new versions of Autopano Pro, Autopano Giga and Autopano Tour
- The Panogear motorized head
- An interactive touch screen showing Paris 26 Gigapixels

Some hardware partners will also be present on our booth to launch new panoramic hardware.

We will be in Hall 4.1, booth #F030.

Kolor will also be present at the IVRPA conference on Monday: a good occasion to share our different points of view and techniques about VR and gigapixel photography.

See you soon in Cologne!
Rami from Kolor team

PHOTOKINA DATES: 21-26 September, 2010
LOCATION: Cologne, Germany

Here is a foretaste of the Paris 26 Gigapixels image. Feel free to spread the info :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PypARCJHJ9I

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.

Like Aldo and Ian, I have been working the last 8 months on an automated panohead to make gigapixel panoramas. I had some basic specs in mind, designig it:

At the Guerilla studio portion of Siggraph today, I participated in a presentation on VR photography.
I introduced IVRPA (and our great new site), and showed some images from the Worldwide Panorama
and Panoramas.dk. I said that "photography and computers are colliding" and I believe that trend is
accelerating. Also presenting was, Gene Cooper (www.fourchambers.org), on "Light Painting in Caves", where he demonstrated
the light painting techniques that his company is using to illuminate caves in a national park.
Imagine making a pano in a pitch black cave, and shining lights on the walls and other surfaces in