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And while you're there, check out the new homepage layout, which has been further refined and will now be linked to with special software from QualiLife for those suffering with disabilities. QualiLife, a Swiss company that develops devices and systems to help people with disabilities achieve greater independence within their environments, has formed a joint venture with FullscreenQTVR .

VRWAY’s Research and Development team and Hans Nyberg have been working closely with QualiLife engineers to develop a new module for the QualiWorld application – QualiVR. QualiVR will better enable people with mobility impairment to participate with QTVR interactive photography. This special VR viewer application will be directly implemented into the QualiWorld software, enabling virtual travel for broadband, offline and low bandwidth environments. QualiVR will link exclusively to FullscreenQTVR and a number of QTVR movies will be "embedded" into the application for demonstration purposes and in order to allow offline browsing.

The " Extreme Experience Fullscreen" directory has been created to test the QualiVR prototype in hospitals and clinics in order to optimize the usability based on real user behavior and feedback. The feedback QuaLife is currently collecting is extremely positive and encouraging.

Here are some of the selected Fullscreens from Hans Nyberg's panoramas.dk for the new Extreme Experience directory:

Apollo Missions
Panoramas were stitched together from NASA photos of the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 mission - Man on the Moon!

Mars MER
Panoramas from the 2004 MER missions, the first fullscreen, high resolution panorama of Mars.

From the Air
Romuald Vareuse presents stunning panos from Reunion Island: volcano eruption from the air, flying on an ultralight plane, and climbing on Reunion.

Para-skiing in Switzerland
Para-skiing, which involves jumping off a mountain with a parachute and skiis, originated as a sport in Switzerland in the early 1960s as a form of mountain rescue. Photographer Karim Naciri captured his jump in Valais, Switzerland this past winter so everyone could share in the experience.

Caves in Slovenia
Slovenia is a country of caves and the Slovene Karst is the most famous cave area in the world, with over 7,500 registered karst caves. Karst is the term used to describe distinctive landforms that develop on rock types that are readily dissolved in water. Discovered in 1832, Krizna jama is one of the most beautiful karst caves in the world and has been captured by photographer Bostjan Burger, who crawled a grueling 1.6 km into the cave to take the photo in the large chamber, or Kalvarija.

Nova (new) Krizna jama is another Slovenian cave shot by Bostjan Burger. This part of the cave, shown in the panorama, was first entered by man only ten years ago and is not open to the public. The entrance to this cave is through a tunnel only 30-40 cm in circumference that leads to the cave 50 meters below. This meant that all equipment, such as tripods, lights, plastic boats, etc., had to be arduously taken through the tunnel and down to the cave, along with Bostjan and his crew.

Peterman Island, Antarctica
Peterman Island, in the west of Antarctica, is an important breeding ground for Adelie penguins, blue-eyed shags and other birds. Dutch photographer Jan van der Woning made this panorama during an expedition in December 2000.

Underwater
Australian photographer Mal Yeo shot this underwater shipwreck cubic panorama of the Liberty, sunk by the submarine I-166 on January 11th, 1942, 40 meters out from the beach in Bali. Mal writes that he positioned himself “within what’s left of a cargo hold at 14 meters and waited for a passing group of divers to give the scene a sense of scale”.

Another pano shot by Mal Yeo at Nelson Bay, Australia. This was shot 24 meters below the surface at Halifax Park, a popular shore diving site 150km north of Sydney.

Grand Canyon
Raft down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, where you’ll come across sites as lovely as their names suggest - Elves Chasm, Nanokweep and Vishnu Shist.

Top of Mount Everest
Roderick Mackenzie scaled the summit of Everest on May 24, 1989, where he shot these photos that were later stitched into a panorama by Hans Nyberg, making it the first panorama taken atop Everest ever shown on the Internet. Roderick Mackenzie writes: “What did I think of on the summit? When I reached the south summit I was suffering from a lack of Spanish Olives. I was most preoccupied with thoughts of the tin of olives sitting in my tent at base camp. The preoccupation was the result of a very intense dream about olives, which was interrupted by the alarm summoning me to our summit attempt. When I reached the south summit the view to the main summit interested me from a mountaineering point of view and all dreamings of olives were banished from my head.”

The Great Pyramids at Giza
In this panorama by Tom Policiano you can see the Cheops pyramid to the right. Cheops is also known as the Great Pyramid and is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. If you pan to the right and look down you can see the Sphinx; to the left is the Khafre (Chefren) and the much smaller Menkaure (Mycerinus).
For more 'extreme' panos, visit 'Arounder Milan'.