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Size for panoramic Virtual tour

Vista Total — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:59:17 -0700

hello

what size recommended for panoramic photos in a virtual tour, virtual tour web chiropractic board has 6 panoramic and do not want to do slow the virtual tour

Thanks

Please help - major stiching issues

Gould360 — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:21:16 -0700

Please please help with this and the absolute horrible

Main Focus
stitching errors.

Sharpness (rather lack of sharpness of the picture)

http://sonofabass.com/panohelp/pano2vr_project_files/salesfloor.html

* I’m aware of the ghosting but since it wasn’t really my focus I didn’t worry too much about it.

Pano
http://sonofabass.com/panohelp/pano2vr_project_files/salesfloor.html

Ptgui Project File
http://sonofabass.com/panohelp/ptgui/

Source Images
http://sonofabass.com/panohelp/source_images/

I am using:

Nodal Ninja NNR1
Samyang/Rokinon 8mm

I am introducing me...

Christophe — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:49:16 -0700

My name is Christophe Bouthé, I live in France where I work as panoramic photographer as you can imagine.

The men who gave me the passion of VR in 2004 by their work are Gilles Vidal, Denis Gliksman, Mickael Therer... Thanks to them !
Mister Ayrton sent me a message who was telling : "hey my friend, come to IVRPA" (Shame on me i didn't do it earlier) !

So now i am glad to be here and i imagine that i have a lot to read on this forum.

Receive my friendships !

Regards,

Christophe

Articles

seanc0303 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:53:59 -0700

Hey guys!! Is there anyone here who know where I can upload my articles?

Newbie

webdesignlondon — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:03:21 -0700

Hello! I'm Henry and new at this forum. Hope that I can learn about photography.

Samyang 7.5mm MFT Nomad Panohead

thomash2 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:09:25 -0700

Nomad Panohead for Samyang 7.5mm MFT

Pictured below is the operational first version and a rendering of the second version. It will be available for purchase in the beginning of November after verification of the second version, which has a smaller footprint, is more compact, and can be used with both camera grip up and down.

It is a lightweight and compact fixed tilt panohead with a rotator at 15 degree increments, marks for 4 and 6 divisions, and has free access to both aperture and focus rings.

Estimated price $150 USD

See link for more details.

Best Virtual Tour Creation Software

rodedwards — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:19:32 -0700

Hi everyone ...

I'm a 360 panoramic photographer who also creates equirectangular images to produce full screen Flash / Quicktime virtual tours .

I'd like to supply hotels etc with the full virtual tour website package so wonder what is the best Virtual Tour Creation software on the market ? Ideally Mac based, but could use Windows on my Intel Mac.

Giroptic Girocam 360 Panoramic 1 Shot Digital Camera For Sale On EBay

gigatours — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:26:32 -0700

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230763948812?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p...

Sunex 185° Superfisheye 5.6mm F/5.6

Doug Aurand — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:06:06 -0700

As a virtual tour photographer who got started with iPIX and their two hemisphere (fisheye) capture, I've always preferred capture methods with as few shot/positions as practical.

I've long retired by Nikon Coolpix 5400, Nikon FC-E9 Fisheye Converter and iPIX Rotator, but still appreciate the simplicity of the setup

Today I use a Canon XTi that has a 10 megapixel cropped sensor for both still photos and virtual images.

Panoscan System for sale

jrazzarelli — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:00:38 -0700

Hello all. I am selling my Panoscan Mk3 system. Before I offer it up on eBay I thought I would post here. I am asking $12,900 but will consider reasonable offers. Download a webarchive of the details here: https://files.me.com/jrazzarelli/ffmb7d
Email me with questions or offers.
Thanks! Joe
jrazzarelli@mac.com

Fish eye lens

wendellasuncion — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:12:57 -0800

Hi guys!

Just soliciting ideas and comments which lens between nikkor 10.5mm and the new samyang ae 8mm is best buy and has better output? I've used nikkor 10.5mm already on my first virtual tour project and i find it great already. Although my concern every time I stitch it through panoweaver, there is always an orphaned image most likely either the 7th or 8th frame. But then, I still manage to stitch it by doing it manually.

GiroCAM 360 Quick Review

mkintner — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:39:23 -0800

Here is a quick overview demo of the NEW GiroCAM made by Giroptic at www.girocam.com

http://www.youtube.com/embed/y-SY_nkLx3g?rel=0

This unit is sold at http://www.kolor.com/girocam-360-camera-by-giroptic-and-kolor.html.

I would like to get everyone comments.

Mike

iOSVR Virtual Tour Software for iPhone and iPad

iOSVR — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:18:48 -0800

Introducing iOSVR V2.5 Virtual Tour Software for iPhone and iPad @ iOSVR.com

Designed to look and feel like a native iOS App, iOSVR is a feature packed easy to use code based virtual tour software for iPhone and iPad that comes pre built as a fully customisable, working template ready for users to jump in and start creating iDevice virtual tours without having any knowledge of code or programming.

360 Degree Camera - GiroCAM Demo and Overview

mkintner — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:18:34 -0800

I just purchased this unit and wanted to share my findings.

So here is a quick overview demo of the NEW GiroCAM made by Giroptic at www.girocam.com

http://www.youtube.com/embed/y-SY_nkLx3g?rel=0

This unit is sold at http://www.kolor.com/girocam-360-camera-by-giroptic-and-kolor.html.

Personally, I think its a little pricy for its quality but a good start toward this type of technology. But let me know what you think?

Mike

Easypano Panoweaver is released officially

easypano — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:26:17 -0800

Hi Friends,

This is to inform you that Easypano has launched Panoweaver 8 officially with the following updates:
[-]Address the displaying problem of Google map JavaScript API upgrading.
[-]Address the publish problem of SWF panorama.
[-]Address the centering problem of popup image in HTML 5 tour.
[-]Address the panorama saving problem in Japanese version.
[-]Address the crashing problem of stitching 16 bit panoramic image after rotating the source images.
[*]Google map is supported in SWF panorama.
[*]Optimize the hotspot editing window.

Looking for current information on "object" based panorama technology (i.e. camera looking in, not out)

vrmonkey — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:39:51 -0800

Hello,

I used to be very involved in QTVR, iPix (even VRML!) years ago, but it's been around 8 years since I've done anything in this space.

However, I now have a need to do some projects that will involve VERY large QTVR type objects. What I mean is that instead of the image being projected on a virtual sphere with the viewpoint in the center, I need the object in the center and the view-point revolving around that center point.

I've been googling for the better part of a day, and it seems that no one cares about that any more. :( Everything I see is panorama (i.e. looking out)

More Help and Information needed

Pedro Canelas — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:44:35 -0800

Also in Beginner mode and after reading some of the information available from the internet, it is concluded that it is sparse because I can not find the document from beginning to end (VT), the process is not well known (I speak of the group photographers that I know) and thus I have had difficulty in obtaining positive results, in a consistent manner.

Recently outfitted with the help of SKIVR, I use a Nikon D7000 Tokina 10-17mm, mounted on a NN4 with RD16.

Flash and Quicktime 360 tours on Apple iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch

rodedwards — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:26:28 -0700

Hi everyone !

I understand that the new Apple iPad (and iPhone / iPod Touch) do not support 360 Flash based virtual tours. This is a real problem for 360 providers like us.

Does anyone know if the new iPad (or iPhone / iPod Touch) support Apple Quicktime virtual tours ? I don't own any of these items so can't experiment myself.

Canadian Photographers Needed

ProSearchPlus — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:10:11 -0800

Pro Search Plus is looking for experienced photographers to film hotels in Canada. Please contact me at bruce@prosearchplus.com to apply for a position with the North America's largest hotel marketing company.
Regards,
Bruce Watson
President
Pro Search Plus
Website
2012 Products and Services

Virtual Tour Analytics

Doug Aurand — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:24:38 -0800

Has any body else done any work on getting Analytics of their Tours?

I just tried adding the Google Analytics code to a Tourweaver tour and am getting how many times the tour is beeing looked at and, contrary to accepted thinking, a Length of time on the tour. I'm not getting which scenes are being viewed though

Here's a screen capture of the Google Analytics report for the first day

www.vabq.com/ivrpa/GA_TW.jpg

Virtual tours .co domains for sale

arielmch — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:06:08 -0800

Hello everybody!
I've got some .co domains for sale that might be of interest for panorama photographers.

These are:
tourvirtual.co
tour360.co
360tour.co
360cities.co

All of them at $150.-

if you'r interested, contact by PM.

thanks! =)
Ariel.

New Released Notifation ---Easypano Panoweaver 8 has been released!

tourweaver7beta — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:44:50 -0800

Easypano Panoweaver 8 beta has been released with new features such as: Support Aodbe Flash Player 11 play engine, Share on Facebook, Little Planet Panorama, Automatic Little Planet Ceiling and Floor and stitching quality optimized.

More details:http://www.easypano.com/panorama-software-pw8beta.html

Gallery:http://www.easypano.com/panorama-gallery.html

You are welcome to be one of the testers. Please pay attention to the following features.
Your feedbacks and suggestions would be highly appreciated.

adding voice to .mov files

ravish — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:18:36 -0800

hello Patrick

ravish from india trying very hard to add voice to quicktime pro .mov file.
i dont know why is it not working. i know iam near but cant able to get the out put. iam a 360 virtual tour photographer and want to add voice or music to the qtvr mov file.iam using windows vista.[and movie controller is not allowing quicktime movie controller to change]
can u please help me out on this.

thanks
ravish

For Sale: Kaidan Meridian C60

kkleva — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:37:10 -0700

I have a complete, fully functional Kaidan Meridian C60. This is a complete unit with an extra turntable able to hold up to 300 pounds.

This is a hard to find piece of equipment that retails for over $18,000 plus. I need the extra space in my studio and would be willing to part with it for $5,500 OBO.

If you would like any additional photos or would like to get more information. Please visit:

http://www.kaidan.com/products/mc60.html

Anyone seen the new VRstation camera?

TheManBearPig — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:02:56 -0700

This new camera was on show in Washington and appears to do everything at the touch of a single button,
including the unwrapping and tone mapping of images.
Its meant to be the equivalent of a 5 or 8 Mpix camera using a single shot lens.

This would mean that tours would take minutes to create instead of spending time post processing back on the computer.
It certainly looks cool. The website is http://www.VRstation.net

Not sure when its for sale, does anyone know?