VR NEWS
by Michelle Bienias
War Coverage
washingtonpost.com supplemented its recent coverage of the war in Iraq with panoramas by photojournalist Travis Fox, who accompanied a group of Post reporters to Iraq with the mission of providing video features and panoramic photographs for the site.
In 2002, the prestigious White House News Photographers’ Association named Fox both Camera Person of the Year and Editor of the Year.
In an interview in Digital Journalist, Fox says that he uses three tools – stills, panoramas, and video – and chooses the best one for the story. In the case of panos, he uses two fish-eye lens shots, stitches them together in the field, runs it through their software and then posts it to the washingtonpost.com website.
View Fox’s QuickTime panoramas of Saddam Hussein’s Al-Sadarniya Palace, Iraqis gathered around a fallen statue of Saddam or the complete list of panoramas dating from mid-March.
Australia
In Australia, jurors in Victoria will soon be taking virtual reality tours through crime scenes, raising concerns that jurors may be dazzled into a guilty verdict, online newspaper The Age reports. Police will take up to 10 photos of the crime scene and then make the tours available to defense and prosecution lawyers, as well as jurors, on CD-ROM
PC Magazine
Hans Nyberg’s panoramas.dk gets a nice review in Site of the Week at PC Magazine.
Top of Blogdex
Another coup for Hans Nyberg! His site made it to the top of Blogdex and DayPop on May 27th with Roderick Mackenzie's fullscreen panorama taken from the top of Mount Everest.
AOL Switches to Quicktime Media Player
Dennis Sellers of MacCentral reports that the beta version of AOL 9.0 includes Apple's QuickTime media player, rather than RealNetworks' RealOne player, which had been included in previous releases.
This is exciting news for QTVR as AOL 9.0 users will no longer need to download the plugin to view VRs.
AOL has over 35 million members worldwide.
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