Film Director Alberto Veronese talks about a never-seen-before road movie between reality and virtuality… it’s a dynamic tour through the imagination.
A case study of the Parma Project - the shooting of the Parma Baptistery and Duomo - that details the technology and methodology used to create these stunning panos.
Read the second installment of our two-part Case Study on the Parma Project - we add Flash, an interactive map and compare the Fuji S2 Pro and the Nikon Coolpix 990.
I had the pleasure to pass some nights making the soundtracks for the 'PARMA BAPTISTERY AND DUOMO IN VR' project.
Studer discusses using background ambient sound for city VRs.
Professional photographer and long-time Kodak user Pat St. Clair gives the PRO 14n a rigorous workout. Read, and view, his results here.
Downing sorts out the confusion over HDR, and answers questions about the Panoscan MKII and Spheron technology.
A review and tutorial on the new Adobe plugin.
Is the QuickTime method of object VR rotation really the most convenient and user-friendly method of control?
Greg Downing has recently developed a technique for creating image-based 3D models from panoramas...
PhD student Matthew Brown and supervising professor David Lowe of the University of British Columbia have developed software that automatically recognizes and stitches panoramas.
“While micropayments have an uphill battle to achieve widespread adoption, I think sooner or later they will become a key component of online payments...”
Armchair Travel has initiated micropayments for their award-winning Taj Mahal and Kew Gardens websites, read about their experience here.
Embedding flash navigation in a multinode QTVR tour - tutorial by Michael Edlund of helloworld.se
A tutorial on lens types compatible with REALViZ's Stitcher.
Tutorial describes how to use full-frame fisheye images with REALViZ Stitcher.
Ian Wood of AzureVision recently released an application for producing video sequences from cubic QTVR panoramas.
VRMAG used the Peace River Studio's PixOrb tripod head on its recent shoot of Milan's Duomo Cathedral and surroundings.
Download your free copy of Zoomifyer for Flash and send in your website created with Zoomify for presentation in future issue of VRMAG.
Sound Bytes columnist Rich Studer returns to VRMAG with a column about, what else, sound!
Marc Kairies of MK Panorama Systems and Dr. Clauss of Dr. Clauss Imaging and Data Technologies discuss the Karline rodeon VR head. They also offer VRMAG readers a special discount.
The new Peace River Studio's PixOrb Surveryor, a vehicle mounted automated camera system.
An in-depth case study of the production of Arounder Milan.
The world's leading organ and religious music label kindly gave VRWAY permission to use some of its recordings as background music for Arounder Milan.
Production of the spoken text for the Arounder Milan project.
The Milan Cathedral Choir, the "Cappella Musicale", is the city's earliest cultural organ. Its foundation was established as 1402 and has been active, without interruption, ever since.
The Italian religious music label Multimedia San Paolo – adherents of the Society of St. Paul, kindly provided background music for the Arounder Milan project.
An overview of a newly published French language book on Panoramas, featuring Laurent Thion and Gilles Vidal.
Kaidan totally redesigned its KiWi tripod head. Click here for details.
Panoscan is pleased to announce the new MK-3 digital panoramic camera system featuring an improved processor module that offers several improvement ...
Aldo Hoeben talks to VRMAG about his panorama viewer engine - SPi-V - that has the VR community humming and is the only alternative to QuickTime for viewing fullscreen VRs.
A "lite" version of Stitcher 4.0, Stitcher Express is great for the amateur enthusiast, and the price is right at USD 119.
The new KARLINE rodeon pro VR head is ideal for heavy cameras. Special discount for VRMAG readers.
New tool for Mac users easily presents fullscreen panos on your web page.
A review of Greg Downing's recently released set of three DVDs: Spherical Panoramic Photography, Image Based Modeling Essentials and Advanced techniques.
'Interactive Panoramas: Techniques for Digital Panoramic Photography' is a well-written, comprehensive book that should be a staple for anyone interested in producing virtual reality panoramas.
After 20 years in video games, Brian Greenstone's interest turned to VR photography and he quickly came up with PangeaVR.
A 25m wide 4m high printed panorama of Milan's Duomo, shot for Arounder Milan, was used as the backdrop for the city of Milan's tourism booth at Italy's largest tourism tradeshow.
"Our business philosophy is literally to produce the best panoramic head that we can. We think that the best heads will be backed up by the best customer support, and we do everything to be available whenever we possibly can."
CGIBackgrounds is seeking photographers who may already have an inventory of cylindrical, stitched spherical or HDRI spherical images for their online library, which provides background images to the automotive industry.
An interview with ImmerVision founder and Chairman of the Board, Jean-Claude Artonne, and CEO Pascale Rouvier-Nini.
Today ImmerVision releases the first product in its PURE TOOLS series, the PURE STARTER TOOLKIT, a collection of five handy tools to use in conjunction with its PURE Players and QuickTimeVR.
Scott L. Robertson was the collaborating photographer for the Arounder Georgia shoot. Read the details behind the shoot here.
The panoramic head for the rest of us.
Do you have picture stitching problems?
An interview with Denis Chumakov.
My first attempt: moonlight over Lauragais.
