vrLOG » 360 http://www.vrlog.net 360 Cities' panorama photography weblog. Virtual Reality to show you the world. Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 360Cities on the BBC http://www.vrlog.net/2009/07/360cities-on-the-bbc/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/07/360cities-on-the-bbc/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:27:46 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=633 360Cities was featured on the BBC!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8176497.stm

]]> http://www.vrlog.net/2009/07/360cities-on-the-bbc/feed/ 0 Obama Prague http://www.vrlog.net/2009/04/obama-prague/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/04/obama-prague/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:47:07 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=622
Obama in Prague

Click and drag the image to move around. Use shift/ctrl to zoom.
Click on “embed this” to put this panorama on your own site :)

]]> http://www.vrlog.net/2009/04/obama-prague/feed/ 0 360 Cities Action Movie http://www.vrlog.net/2009/03/360-cities-panorama-movie/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/03/360-cities-panorama-movie/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:18:08 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=611 This is only a rough cut.

We have caught screencast fever. So you can expect more in the future.

]]> http://www.vrlog.net/2009/03/360-cities-panorama-movie/feed/ 0 Tibor Illes and 360Cities on Hungarian TV http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/tibor-illes-360-cities-hungarian-tv/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/tibor-illes-360-cities-hungarian-tv/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:20:13 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=606 Our illustrious and prolific member from Szeged, Hungary, Tibor Illes, pointed me to this news report from a few days ago, featuring Tibor, and a very nice demo of 360Cities and Google Earth.

]]> http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/tibor-illes-360-cities-hungarian-tv/feed/ 0 mega mega link dump http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/mega-mega-link-dump/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/mega-mega-link-dump/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:35:15 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=597
  • Here are a few links to interesting things some folks have come across. Click ‘read more’ down at the bottom to get a couple thousand more.
  • Csongrad County: Makó City Hall
    from 360 Cities
  • Oktoberfest 2007 – 360 Cities
    from www.360cities.net
  • Oktoberfest 2007 – 360 Cities
    from www.360cities.net
  • Microsoft’s IE 8 Compatibility List: Is it working?…
    from blogs.zdnet.com
  • 中國: Changji – Tianchi 昌吉-大天池
    from 360 Cities
  • English Russia » The Modded Monument
    from englishrussia.com
  • Google (& other) Maps Friday Fun
    from Google Maps Mania
  • The Snow Car
    from English Russia
  • Tver from Air
    from English Russia
  • Speeding bullet stopped by hair weave
    from Boing Boing
  • Business Card Etiquette In Japan
    from Boing Boing
  • Charles Darwin/Fairey/Obama “CHANGE” graphics
    from Boing Boing
  • Miniscrapbook bound in husk of SD card — Boing Boing…
    from Boing Boing
  • Second-person in fiction compels you
    from Boing Boing
  • Deutschland: Industrial museum Henrichshütte Hattingen
    from 360 Cities
  • Philippines: After Sunset
    from 360 Cities
  • Venice: Angel Flight at Venice Carnival
    from 360 Cities
  • Europe: Plogoff Port de Bestree
    from 360 Cities
  • Philippines: 1814 Cagsawa Ruins, Mayon Volcano
    from 360 Cities
  • Europe: Plogoff Pointe du Raz vue pointe du van
    from 360 Cities
  • 中國: 拉萨药王山观景台
    from 360 Cities
  • 中國: 雅鲁藏布江—”山南地区段” Yarlung Zangbo River – “Shannan…
    from 360 Cities
  • Photo: Liquid Water Recently Seen on Mars?
    from news.nationalgeographic.com
  • Windows Mobile 6.5 shows clever burst of originality….
    from www.roughlydrafted.com
  • Robotic Prostheses For Human Faces
    from Slashdot
  • Drug Deletes Fearful Memories
    from Slashdot
  • Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7
    from Slashdot
  • Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water
    from Slashdot
  • Casinos Warn iPhone Card-Counting App is Illegal
    from Slashdot
  • Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World
    from Slashdot
  • Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry
    from Slashdot
  • Researchers Hack Biometric Faces
  • ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/mega-mega-link-dump/feed/ 0     Extreme Ironing – Underwater http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/extreme-ironing-underwater-panorama/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/extreme-ironing-underwater-panorama/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:33:52 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=554 Hiroharu Shizuya has made quite an amazing image. I’m not sure how he did it…

    Click the image to open the panorama:

    extreme ironing 360 panorama

    extreme ironing 360 panorama

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/extreme-ironing-underwater-panorama/feed/ 0     Airplane graveyard http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/airplane-graveyard/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/airplane-graveyard/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:37:13 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=548 Try zooming out….


    View Larger Map

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/airplane-graveyard/feed/ 0     Oblong – A Futuristic User Interface http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/oblong-futuristic-user-interface/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/oblong-futuristic-user-interface/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:12:08 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=545 Minority Report remains the standard by which all futuristic User Interfaces are judged.

    This one looks very promising indeed.


    g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/oblong-futuristic-user-interface/feed/ 0     Google Earth 5.0 http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/google-earth-50/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/google-earth-50/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:16:13 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=536 Well, I’d guessed it would be “Google Ocean” so in some sense I guessed right – the big announcement planned by Google for today is a huge update of Google Earth – Version 5.0! And among other things, yes, the much-rumoured “Google Ocean” is now reality – Google Earth now includes the topography of the ocean floors….

    Also, there is a new “time” feature. This might mean that FINALLY :) it will be possible to publish my timelapse panoramas in a reasonable way.

    Pretty amazing stuff. I will be taking it for a test drive for the remainder of the evening.

    Download Google Earth 5.0

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/google-earth-50/feed/ 0     See Havana http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/see-havana/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/see-havana/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:20:20 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=528 I’ve just discovered the Google Earth / Maps gadget. Just throw in a KML file (luckily 360cities has a KML file for the world, for every city, and every photographer, including the spherical PhotoOverlays you see here, so that work was already done)

    Use the controls or your mouse wheel to zoom and navigate the map. Double click a location to enter the image.

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/see-havana/feed/ 0     CHDK – Unleash the POWER in your “PowerShot!” http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/chdk-unleash-the-power-in-your-powershot/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/chdk-unleash-the-power-in-your-powershot/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:16:05 +0000 rami http://www.vrlog.net/?p=497 chdk

    This is the way the CHDK advertises itself: Unleash the POWER in your “PowerShot!”

    It really is an amazing thing: a couple of the main actions are timelapse (interval) and motion detection.

    Motion detection is so fast that it can catch a lightning! Amazing isn’t it!?

    And with Timelapse your imagination is the limit of what you can do with it…

    Here is a Timelapse movie i shot using the CHDK on my camera.

    Read more here: CHDK wikia

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/chdk-unleash-the-power-in-your-powershot/feed/ 0     Panorama from the inside of my mouth http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panorama-inside-mouth/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panorama-inside-mouth/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:16:58 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=520 It’s not every day that you get a chance to photograph your head with a scanning, panoramic X-Ray camera. I had that chance on May 29, 2006. Here is the result.



    view Panoramic photography of Prague

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panorama-inside-mouth/feed/ 0     Petroglyphs – Ancient Graffiti http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/petroglyphs-ancient-graffiti/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/petroglyphs-ancient-graffiti/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:23:01 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=515 Here is another stunning panorama from Thierry Blondeau – a mountain view with some ancient graffiti (petroglyphs) on the side of the mountain.

    view Panoramic photography of France

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/petroglyphs-ancient-graffiti/feed/ 0     Panoramic photos of Abydos by Stefan Geens http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panoramic-photos-of-abydos-by-stefan-geens/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panoramic-photos-of-abydos-by-stefan-geens/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:15:41 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=508 Here is one of many of Stefan Geens’ spectacular panoramic photos from his recent trip to Egypt. You can read more about it on his blog, Ogle Earth.

    Be sure to click the “fullscreen” button in the top left of the image!

    view Panoramic photography of Inner Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Seti I, Abydos

    You can view more panoramas from both Egypt and Sweden by Stefan Geens at 360cities.

    You can also see many wonderful panoramas from Egypt by Andrey Ilyin.

    If you would like to put this panorama onto your own website or blog, just click the “embed” link on the right side of the panorama.

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panoramic-photos-of-abydos-by-stefan-geens/feed/ 0     Crazy Football http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/crazy-football/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/crazy-football/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:05:22 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=500 One of my favorite old panoramic images, shot in 2005. A bunch of lunatics playing football in the deep winter snowing madness, in the mud, in Letna Park, Prague:



    view Crazy Football in Prague

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/crazy-football/feed/ 0     People watching Machines, watching Machines, watching People http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/people-watching-machines-watching-machines-watching-people/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/people-watching-machines-watching-machines-watching-people/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:52:38 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=492 Frank Taylor of the always-informative Google Earth Blog has blogged about this great image of a U2 Spyplane, captured in-flight on Google Earth!

    u2 spyplane

    Who is watching who, now? :-)

    Click the images to open this location in Google Earth.

    u2 spyplane

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/people-watching-machines-watching-machines-watching-people/feed/ 0     How to: photograph and stitch very very very very long scenes http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/how-to-photograph-and-stitch-very-long-scenes/ http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/how-to-photograph-and-stitch-very-long-scenes/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:35:33 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=486 While the state of the art of Panoramic Photography has progressed in incredible ways over the last few years, there is still one type of photography stitching that is still a kind of black art: multi-viewpoint “planar” panoramas. Think of an image of all the facades on a street – while it seems simple to do it, it is still very difficult to create a *seamless* image in this way.

    Anyway, there seems to have been some good progress on this front. Here is the project. As usual Rick Szeliski is involved. ;-)

    Using this technique, they say, it’s now possible to simply walk down a street and take photos of all the buildings every few tens of meters or so. No tripod, no taking photos every meter and making slits, none of that….

    Being an image-stitching junkie myself I know that it’s not actually possible to create a 100% error-free image in this way – it’s simple fact that you’re creating a single image from many perspectives, so there are going to be errors somewhere…

    multi

    So, here (see the mutant car) is the worst one I could find. This has happened because the plane of the houses might stitch ok, but things in front of that plane, such as cars, when photographed from two perspectives, might not fit together properly, if those two images are being blended together with the car in the seam.

    The images are in fact quite amazingly error-free. This is impressive stuff.

    Link – Photographing long scenes with multi-viewpoint panoramas

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/how-to-photograph-and-stitch-very-long-scenes/feed/ 0     Another Acrobatic Skiing panorama http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/another-acrobatic-skiing-panorama/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/another-acrobatic-skiing-panorama/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:38:53 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=474 click to open fullscreen panorama.sky

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/another-acrobatic-skiing-panorama/feed/ 0     Beautiful scenery and nice editing http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/peautiful-scenery-and-nice-editing/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/peautiful-scenery-and-nice-editing/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:42:28 +0000 rami http://www.vrlog.net/?p=469 Despite the continuing warming of the globe there´s still snow in La Colmiane, France

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    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/peautiful-scenery-and-nice-editing/feed/ 0     Deep Earth Released Into the Wild http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/deep-earth-released-into-the-wild/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/deep-earth-released-into-the-wild/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:25:06 +0000 rami http://www.vrlog.net/?p=465 This thing is absolutely worth of exploring…

    Read more

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/deep-earth-released-into-the-wild/feed/ 1     Inside a Swarm of Bees http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/inside-a-swarm-of-bees/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/inside-a-swarm-of-bees/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:11:00 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=461 Panoramas like this one, by Dieter Kik, remind me why I became so obsessed with VR Photography in the first place.


    click to open fullscreen panorama.
    Great work, Dieter. :-)

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/inside-a-swarm-of-bees/feed/ 0     Fly around NYC in 3d http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fly-around-nyc-in-3d/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fly-around-nyc-in-3d/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:38:28 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=458 Via the Google Earth Blog -

    Google has added an astonishing quantity of 3d building – with photographic textures – into Google Earth.

    Simply fly to NYC in Google Earth, and turn on the 3d buildings Layer.

    Pretty amazing :-)

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fly-around-nyc-in-3d/feed/ 0     Guruguru360 – the blog of Hiroharu Shizuya http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/guruguru-360-hiroharu-shizuya/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/guruguru-360-hiroharu-shizuya/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:54:00 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=452 One of 360cities’ most prolific members, Hiroharu Shizuya, just pointed me towards his blog. It looks as good as all of his other work. If you want to view a translated (english) version, use this link.


    click the image to enter Hiroharu Shizuya’s blog.

    Hiroharu comes from Tokyo and he has created a fantastic amount of panoramas (more than 400) from all over the city. Be sure to check out his panoramas of christmas in Tokyo.

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/guruguru-360-hiroharu-shizuya/feed/ 0     IE lets you browse the internet, and vice versa http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/ie-lets-you-browse-the-internet-and-vice-versa/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/ie-lets-you-browse-the-internet-and-vice-versa/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:28:59 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=450 From the BBC: “Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.”

    Read more about it on BBC News.

    In related news, Slashdot reports: “Microsoft quietly released the first update to its IE8 beta 2 to its closest partners last week. This new version only scores a dismal 12/100 on the Acid 3 test, though the score improves significantly if one leaves the [browser] window open for at least a minute. It is marked as ‘Release Candidate 1.”

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/ie-lets-you-browse-the-internet-and-vice-versa/feed/ 0     Fantastic photo archive of the Leaning Tower of Pisa http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fantastic-photo-archive-of-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fantastic-photo-archive-of-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:20:00 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=447 Ok, who will be the first to build a 3d model / photosynth / object movie / inverted panorama from these thousands of images? :-)


    click the image above to visit the site.

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fantastic-photo-archive-of-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/feed/ 0     3d display coming perhaps this decade…. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/3d-display-coming-perhaps-this-decade/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/3d-display-coming-perhaps-this-decade/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:06:34 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.vrlog.net/?p=444 We’ve been promised this for a while. Who knows? It could actually arrive, perhaps even before flying cars.

    Click the screenshot below to go directly to the site and watch the video.

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/3d-display-coming-perhaps-this-decade/feed/ 0     Egypt: Nile view from the hotel room http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/egypt-nile-view-from-the-hotel-room/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/egypt-nile-view-from-the-hotel-room/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:53:50 +0000 1drey http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/egypt-nile-view-from-the-hotel-room/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama!
    Nile view

    Panorama by Andrey Ilyin, Egypt

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/egypt-nile-view-from-the-hotel-room/feed/ 0     Egypt: Falluca at Nile http://www.vrlog.net/2008/01/egypt-falluca-at-nile/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/01/egypt-falluca-at-nile/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:39:15 +0000 1drey http://www.vrlog.net/2008/01/egypt-falluca-at-nile/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama!
    Falluca

    Panorama by Andrey Ilyin, Egypt

    ]]>     http://www.vrlog.net/2008/01/egypt-falluca-at-nile/feed/ 0