Switzerland’s annual Geneva International Motor Show is reputed the world’s best by media and professionals alike.
Situated along the shores of the Lac Léman, it is Switzerland's third largest city and capital of the canton Geneva.
Jook Leung recent appeared on ABC News' New Now 'Ahead of the Curve' program in an unprecedented 14-minute interview.
The first thing that strikes one about Alberto Veronese are the eyes, wide and luminous as if they were drinking up the light in the room.
In the Third Millennium, during the year of the Jubilee, the Vatican granted VRWAY permission to release some of Rome's architectural treasures online.
Milan, capital of fashion and design, once again experienced grid-locked traffic on for the 40th edition of the Salone del Mobile.
Amongst the Riviera’s star-studded events, the Cannes Film Festival is undoubtedly the most glamorous of all.
From the 24th to the 27th of May, the Formula One World Championship circus moved to the famous streets of Monte Carlo for the 59th running of the Monaco Grand Prix.
On 22 May 2001, the second annual Laureus World Sports Awards took place in Monte Carlo.
Between 21 and 24 of June this year, the fourth edition of the Trofeo Yachting Library returns to Argentarioís Sailing Week.
Geographically on the Ligurian coastline, Cinque Terre exerts a magnetism all of its own.
In Italian, the word Levante signifies the point on the horizon where the sun rises.
A typical Locarno Festival day goes something like this.
In Locarno festivalgoers are referred to with the term: Festivalieri. It’s easy to spot a typical film fest groupie.
Not many people know that Locarno has one of the largest roundabouts in Europe (not counting the Place de l’Etoile in Paris and London’s Piccadilly Circus), and that in 1925 it made history by hosting the Peace Conference.
Although we started late on the Web, we had a specific purpose in mind: to create a meeting place for an existing community.
I arrive at the GSU recording studios early, so i wait outside for Massimiliano Pani whom i’m supposed to interview.
One of the major tournaments of the PGA European Tour takes place in one of the Swiss Alps’ most beautiful resorts.
Geographically on the Ligurian coastline, Cinque Terre exerts a magnetism all of its own.
In 1998 when I was unemployed, I was sent to Hungary by the Swiss government. I took part in an environmental program.
Frank is a busy guy. He created two record labels (Archive, Sonica),
and runs head to toe, a sublabel of Irma records of Bologna, Italy's best known electronic listening label.
It’s been a busy week for us at VRWAY/VRMAG, first with the relaunch of VRMAG and now our participation at the Franchising & Partnership tradeshow – Europe’s biggest distribution tradeshow - in the enormous Fiera Milano buildings.
I believe that today making architecture is a way of resisting the loss of identity, a way of resisting the banalization, the flattening of culture brought about by the consumerism so typical of modern society.
Got some hot VRs burning a proverbial hole in your pocket? Looking for a wider audience (or just an audience) to showcase your skills? Got an interesting spin on a city, person or event with a VR theme?
n the beautiful northern Italian city of Parma, well-known by food lovers for its prosciutto di Parma and parmigiano reggiano, lies a square housing a 12th century Duomo and pink marble Baptistery.
As the saying goes, life is much too short to drink bad wine.
Sometimes it takes a technology like QuickTime VR to let us experience other worlds, and to explore places that we might otherwise never know existed.
This title may confuse you but no, you haven’t fallen into an existentialist course on how to find your way in this life…you need no teacher for that. It’s just an attempt to present my humble person to your attention.
It all started with a silver Taler that my grandfather gave me when I was seven years of age. In a child’s hand that was a nice-looking big solid object.
The Pilotta Palace is a large complex that houses galleries and art collections, named after the pelota handball game that was played in one of the courtyards.
Jim Spadaccini is the founder and co-owner of Ideum, a design and consulting firm that develops multimedia-rich educational web sites.
And with these words from Erik Goetze we begin a journey into the mind of a man who has brought his vision to life...
Remember as a child seeing for the first time WWII footage of the Allies liberation of the concentration camps.
Dermot O’Connor is the Irish animator behind the Flash website with the strange name – Idleworm – an Elizabethan term used to describe what grew under the fingernails of lazy girls.
We’ve all read and seen photos of the recent peace demonstrations but how many have really seen them?
The remains of one of the most shameful acts committed by the United States government can be found in California’s Owens Valley at a place called Manzanar.
It was pointed out to me that this year, Easter (for non-Orthodox Christians) happened to fall on the same day as Hitler's birthday, 20 April.
In 2002, the prestigious White House News Photographers’ Association named Fox both Camera Person of the Year and Editor of the Year.
Burning Man, the annual arts festival and bacchanal held in the Nevada desert, has reached mythical status, and the uninitiated are curious.
A few months ago I discovered weblogs, or blogs, as they are commonly called. I had heard the term before but was vague on the details.
The tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings - closed to the public for over 10 years.
Where can you find a slice of daily life in Sydney, Australia put under a microscope and then blown large?
We’ve put together a collection of 16 fullscreen cubic VR panoramas that represent the best of everything the French Riviera.
The largest and most popular fresco shows seven episodes of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ and the church contains two other frescos by Luini – Madonna with the Infant Jesus and the Last Supper.
A QuickTime VR from the Geo-Literacy Project was featured on the website of the George Lucas Educational Foundation recently.
With it’s warm Mediterranean climate, the French Riviera offers golf enthusiasts the luxury of being able to play all year round but spring and autumn are the most ideal.
To document all the beauty of Portugal in panoramas, from its Romanesque cathedrals to its towns and villages and most things in between, and remarkable in that it achieves this so superlatively.
Beautifully executed and informational, the ‘David Maxim, Unseen Pictures’ website should be used as a blueprint for other artists who wish to display their art on the Internet.
The best mountain bikers in the world descended upon the small city of Lugano in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino a few weeks ago (Aug 31 – Sept 7) for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.
VRWAY Communication is proud to announce the launch of AROUNDER, a concept that combines 360-degree panoramas with television promotion on the EuroNews channel.
One of the oldest and most celebrated university towns in Europe and the oldest English-speaking university in the world.
Liguria’s long, narrow stretch of coastline, from Ventimiglia in the west to Portovenere in the east, lies on the Mediterranean and is sheltered by the Maritime Alps and Ligurian Apennines to the north.
Highlights and impressions of the recent IQTVRA Summit from speakers Michael Quan, Jook Leung, Scott Highton and Bill Meikle.
After hearing many people describe their Burning Man experiences I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that just about anything one might say about the festival is equally true.
The Vatican granted VRWAY Communication special access that allowed an international team of photographers to capture the beauty of these wonders.
French photographer Laurent Thion, of www.ecliptique.com, is amassing a spectacular collection of fullscreen VRs of Paris’ futuristic business district, La Défense.
The Vatican launched its first website in1995 at an initial cost of $88,000, mainly to serve journalists reporting on the Holy See.
This interview dates back a few years to when Apple first released the cubic QuckTime VR. It refers to research I did on the new features and potential of this new cubic format.
We've procured discounts on some great products especially for VRMAG readers. VRMAG does not make any money from these promotions and has passed along its commission to readers in the form of a greater discount.
Mina non é nuova a progetti internet, infatti il 30 marzo 2001, più di 15 milioni di persone vollero seguire il più grande evento multicast italiano.
Over the past few years, the artist team of Gene Cooper and Taylor Harnisch have traveled over 25,000 miles, taken over 18,000 photographs, and explored more than 30 National Park Service sites.
The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren made its world debut on September 9, 2003 at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany and DaimlerChrysler launched the super car in Cape Town, South Africa, in late 2003.
Bellinzona, in the Swiss canton of Ticino, is the site of three medieval castles named by UNESCO in 2001 as a World Heritage Site.
There are 150 metro, or subway systems, in the world and the Moscow Metro is almost without doubt the grandest.
The growing popularity and success of Hans Nyberg’s panoramas.dk, especially the fullscreen panorama of the week, was the impetus for creating a fullscreen QuickTime Virtual Reality website.
“We do not know where this journey will end, yet we know this: human beings are headed into the cosmos." - President Bush.
The high altitude, clear air and easy access by mountain railway makes the Jungfraujoch one of Switzerland’s most attractive destinations, as well as an ideal location for scientific work such as meteorology.
Paris-based photographer Laurent Thion, of www.ecliptique.com, recently photographed ONERA’s S1Ch Wind Tunnel, which was the biggest in France until the end of WWII.
eBay invited eight top interior designers, gave them each a budget of $100,000 and asked them to design a different room in a Manhattan townhouse – only using furnishings purchased on eBay.
The Arounder concept was devised by VRWAY Communication’s R&D company - webidentity dot com - as a product to best showcase and inform potential travelers of what its city has to offer.
Famously referred to by Mark Twain as a “poem in marble”, Milan’s Duomo cathedral is not universally admired for its abundant mixture of architectural styles, frequently categorized as Gothic-Lombard.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane.
San Ambrogio was built by St. Ambrose, the Patron Saint of Milan, and is dedicated to the martyrs whose bones rest beneath its altar.
At 10:35 A.M. on December 17, 1903, after four years of experiments, Orville Wright achieved the first piloted, sustained, controlled and powered flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Hans Nyberg of panoramas.dk was chosen to capture the recent Danish Royal Wedding and is likely the first panoramic photographer to be hired for such an event.
Before you decide to visit the new World Wide Panoramas website be sure you’ve set aside some free time, as it’s next to impossible to view just a few of these panoramas.
When VRWAY received the contract for Arounder Milan the team immediately felt that this could truly be a special project, given the beauty and historical significance of the subject matter.
Photokina is the world’s biggest photography expo and this year the IQTVRA and IAPP will host a print exhibit of about 40 members’ panoramas from around the world.
The Summit in Sedona is rapidly approaching (October 25-29) and the VRMag team has been busy preparing for it, along with this month’s Photokina in Cologne, Germany.
October 31, 2004, Sedona, AZ - When I landed in Phoenix from chilly Toronto early Sunday afternoon, the hot sun raised my hopes that the upcoming week in Sedona would be full of summer-like weather.
Chris Ramirez must be getting used to the questions and stares the ten Canon S60s mounted on a 10-foot high tripod elicit.
Hans Nyberg is currently at work creating full screen panoramas from all six Apollo missions, the next one he will post on www.panoramas.dk will be Apollo 12.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Romuald Vareuse, a native of Nice, France, has been living in Reunion Island since 1986, and working as a professional photographer specializing in architecture and aerial photography since 1988.
It’s Saturday morning, the day after the IQTVRA Summit in Sedona officially ended, and the clear, sunny weather is perfect for an impromptu helicopter ride.
What: VR Tour of the White House (the only one we could find on the Internet).
Panoramas of the South Lawn, the Blue Room, and the Red Room.
Ahh Hawaii, the land of hula skirts, big waves, lais and Don Ho (singing his version of ‘Tiny Bubbles’, which became ‘Tiny Boobies … on my chest’, at least that’s what I remember from my childhood visit to Honolulu and exposure to the crooner).
Please join us in producing the next World Wide Panorama. This will be the fourth quarterly event, completing a full annual cycle.
REALVIZ® Stitcher® Express draws on the award-winning technology of Stitcher® 4.0, already used by thousands of professional photographers, architects, multimedia and 3D artists worldwide.
Arounder was conceived as a series of online magazines, each profiling a different city and the best that city has to offer with a series of 360-degree panoramas.
Monaco – land of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, the grand Casino, beaches, affluence, fashion, fancy cars and playboys.
Located on the northeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the shores of the Mediterranean, Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain in both size and population (1.5 million).
You have to hand it to the two guys who envisioned and continue to organize the WWP events: While each series challenges photographers to conceive of a panorama.
If you feel like reliving New Year’s Eve 2005 all over again, or just want to see how others across the world celebrate, Hans Nyberg of www.panoramas.dk has put together the largest collection of full screen panoramas depicting the events that took place.
Award-winning panorama photographer Jook Leung hiked the awareness of virtual reality to a new level this week with his interview on ABC’s digital cable news channels.
Photographer Elizabeth Gentile, of Evergreen Studios, shot five fullscreen panoramas in the early afternoon of Tuesday, February 15, a day when over 200,000 visited the park.
Greg Downing recently held a two-day, sold-out show of his panoramas at the Gates Planetarium, the world's largest, public, high resolution virtual reality theater.
Fly over the Eiffel Tower in a hot air balloon and take virtual tours of Notre Dame and Sainte Chapelle at VR blog FromParis.com.
Explore and learn about Denver, Colorado in over 800 VR scenes and a Flash-based map interface at the new website AroundDenver.com.
Planning your summer vacation? Read this Top 10 list of what to see and do in Slovenia first, complete with fullscreen panoramas by Bostjan Burger.
Peter Danford’s Beijing Guide is a must-visit site for anyone planning a trip to China.
Visit the great Mayan cities of Chich'en Itza, Uxmal, Dzibilchaltun, Mayapan, and others
With the latest World Wide Panorama series, WATER, Don Bain, Landis Bennett and Markus Altendorff's efforts to improve the submission process and website have paid off in spades. Read how they did it here.
The definitive ‘Top 8 List of What to See in Rome in Four Days’.
Matthias Taugwalder has realized an incredible dream and achievement with his stunning series of panoramas documenting his summit and descent from one of Europe’s most popular mountains, viewable in QuickTime, Java, Zoomify and SPi-V.
Ed Fink was eager to get to the Gulf Coast to shoot some aerial panoramas in the place he used to call home - but he had to get a major newspaper to hire a helicopter first.
Featuring works by Fabrizio Plessi, Balázs Kicsiny and Olafur Eliasson shown at la Biennale di Venezia.
Europe's largest pop festival, Sziget Festival 2005, is documented in unprecedented detail by Sziget 2005 Media Far.
VR photographer Mickael Therer heads to Mali with Médecins Sans Frontières.
Paul Iliffe, his wife and two young children travel the globe, taking VR panos and MotionVRs of their many adventures and extreme activities along the way.
Casanova, the world's best known lover, gambler and all round roguish figure spent his early years in Venice...see the Bridge of Sighs and Piombi Prison, from which he famously escaped.
View the fullscreen panoramas taken inside Rossyln Chapel, where a recent discovery may solve the mystery of the coded ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel, the subject of much speculation long before Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code novel.
Photographer Sam Rohn just released a large collection of vivid panoramas of the most famous Holy Sites in Jerusalem, including the Dome of the Rock, Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Western Wall, and Damascus Gate.
VR photographer Laurent Thion brings the Château to life in his exquisite virtual tour featuring 30 fullscreen panoramas of the many bedrooms, kitchen, salon, galleries, staircase, gardens and surroundings of this "Le Château des Dames".
Take a virtual tour of Lisbon with the recently launched Arounder Lisbon, featuring 18 fullscreen panoramas of the city’s top sights.
Ten great reasons to visit Valencia, Spain, this year.
There are many attractions in the state of Georgia - from booming Atlanta to charming Savannah and Augusta - that make for a great vacation. Take a virtual tour of the state with over a dozen panoramas.
Adidas scores with its FIFA World Cup mural on the ceiling of the Cologne train station.
Visitors to the British International Motor Show at London's ExCel exhibition centre got a chance to view every single one of Honda’s F1 3200 individual parts with the ‘View Suspended’ art installation. View the fullscreen panorama here.
Take a rare glimpse inside a Lancaster bomber, the PA474, repainted in the markings of centurion aircraft ‘Mickey the Moocher’, located at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Museum.
One of the largest and longest-running festivals for electronic art worldwide, Ars Electronica Festival investigates the evolution and cultural importance of electronic and digital media.
Inspired by photographic sequences in sports magazines, Tristan Shu brings a fresh, insider’s view to his action-packed motocross, paragliding and skiing panos.
Marcin Mroz unofficially accessed the closed area of Chernobyl in order to document the area with interactive panoramas.
A walk along the enchanting UNESCO sites of La Habana.
Let you guide by Jim Spadaccini to Anshe Chung Studios masterpiece project in Second Life and compare with DanCoyote Antonelli's Full Immersion Hyperformalism.
Tread the floors of some of the most magnificent castles of the modern European monarchy.
WIRED's vision of a new World's Fair, NextFest is a four-day festival of innovative products and technologies that are transforming our world.
The photographic expedition of Svalbard in search of the bears.
Matt takes you on a journey of discovery ...
Kaszkin invites you to the discovery of the north.
Tread the floors of some of the most magnificent castles of European monarchy (pt.2).
One hundred ways to make your significant other speechless in Paris.
When famous personalities unite against AIDS.
