VR NEWS
by Michelle Bienias
 A QuickTime VR from the Geo-Literacy Project was featured on the website of the George Lucas Educational Foundation recently. Eva La Mar, Director of the Project, says “they have also used my project as a basis for the latest video documentary that is being published in the near future. They followed my class around for a few days while we shot QTVR, etc. at a local Open Space Foundation ranch.”
Panoramas shot by Pat St. Clair from the LPGA Women’s Golf Tournament, held several weeks ago in Rochester, NY, are available online. St. Clair says that he shot interactive panoramas on the course using a Kodak DCS Pro 14n and a DCS 620x. He was also featured in an interview about interactive photography (10 am Saturday, last 2 minutes of broadcast).
Dennis Sellers reports on MacCentral that:
“The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of manned flight this year with a new facility and high-tech public access to aircraft and space artifacts. The 11 million visitors a year to the National Air and Space Museum will be able to enjoy historic aviation displays in person, while looking inside the craft using QuickTime VR, Apple's virtual reality technology.
“Dennis Biela of LightSpeed Media and David Palermo of WorldVR have teamed up to record 200 aircraft and 128 space artifacts using high resolution digital photography and QuickTime VR. The exterior of each item is photographed in 10-degree increments, creating a 3D virtual reality image.”
At www.panoramas.dk, Hans Nyberg’s Fullscreen of the Week has recently featured Jook Leung’s ‘4th of July Fireworks from the Empire State Building’, the beautiful‘Chapelle de Cocteau’ by famed French artist Jean Cocteau, photographed by Anotnio Moya, and a pano of a ‘Midsummer Bonfire’ in Denmark, photographed by Nyberg, and a beautiful underwater pano taken at Nelson Bay, Halifax Park, Australia, by Mal Yeo.
Jook Leung has been covering the Macworld Creative Pro Expo in NYC with QuickTime VR panoramas.
VR.refocus.de has launched 360°Erfurt, a virtual walk through the city of Erfurt, Germany. Although the site is currently in German, the navigation is in English and there are plans to add other languages soon.
Ted Chevalas, of Panoscan, was invited to shoot a never-seen-before September 11th memorial to victims of the Pentagon attack, inside the Pentagon. He says, “If you click on the door in the main hallway you can see the memorial chapel that features a stain glass seal in memory of September 11th that was handcrafted by the family members of those lost”.
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