VR photography

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.

A while back, I posted about a job down in Los Angeles... After 9 months or so, it looks like the photography/virtual tour is about to go live... Almost! :-)

Jim Scott's been working hard on his SMB (Spherical MicroBracket)! This is a lightweight DIY aluminum bracket for monopod-based panorama shooting.

Thomas Rauscher announced very recently a modular addition to his software, called "FlashPack". FlashPack will allow Pano2QTVR users to export fully cubic Flash-based panoramas, which can then be displayed solo on the Web or (I assume) as integrated into an interactive Flash-based project.

Like any software, Stitcher has its quirks and bugs and these are of course most apparent (and annoying) to heavy users (of which I'll consider myself one). The Stitcher team has, over time, addressed many of these quirks/bugs -- but of course new ones always crop up. This isn't surprising for Stitcher or for any piece of software being developed. I develop my own interactive QuickTime 'widget' which is used by many in our VR development community, and constantly have to address its quirks and issues.

Being a VR photographer living in the Middle East, I've been interested in how VR photography has been used to cover the war between Israel and Lebanon.

I myself had a go at VR photojournalism by photographing a demonstration against the war in Cairo. What was interesting to me, other than the fact that my panorama is out of focus, was that I was able to share a real event that happened and was not reported about at all in both my local or online news media. So if a tree fell in the forest and no one was there to see it, did it fall at all? I think that we as VR photographers have helped to make our world a true global village.