Lucid Viewer 1.4.4 is now available.  
 Current updates for version 1.4 include:
• new camera action added for pan, tilt and zoom control
• new tween action for objects
• time-based objects now supported
• looping .flv sound files supported
• custom cursors
• custom overlays / watermarks [...]

Hello All,  
Anyone know if it's possible to convert QuickTime object movies to  
Flash? I'm working on a Mac. 

  Jim Rodney
email@hidden

[...]
  

Lucid Viewer 1.4.2 has been released. Demo site: www.lucid.it/viewer  This version includes:  • new object tweening action now available • time-based objects now supported • looping .flv sound files supported • custom cursor option • custom watermark option • multi-colored mouse-over text • GUI updates • updated documentation • multiple .flv video Objects now supported • control panel includes new 'hide' option • video 'step' buttons added • 2 second increments • updated documentation • various bug fixes           Jason Villmer  www.villmer.com  email@hidden  Skype: villmer                     

Hi to All!    This recently surfaced on the Stitcher forum courtesy of Andrew Baddeley.      http://stitcher.realviz.com/press/PR/autodesk_FAQ.pdf     -- Jim Scott       

Really cool. 
   
 Could anyone please provide some more information on the tecniques user to augment the VR movies with external objects? Like the high school scene where they place some external object in the VR movie. 
   
 Cheers 
 Dan    
 On 5/6/08, craig tooms <email@hidden> wrote:

[...] [...]

Thank you for the solution to this issue.  

 Paul Fretheim  
Allan Schaffer wrote:
 Hi Paul,  
Did you recently change any settings in your mail application? 
I see that all your postings prior to May 1 were sent in plain text, 
whereas all your postings since (and including) May 1 were sent as  [...]

VRMag Issue 30 is online: http://www.vrmag.org     We had promised you a special issue and - finally! - the 30th is online, with exclusive contents.  What will you discover within VRMAG?  First of all, our special coverage: Speed Racer. Speed Racer is the most expansive use of VR's in cinema history. In its pages, VRMAG hosts contents and interviews which directly come from Hollywood. Award winning special effects guru John Gaeta (Matrix trilogy) takes you behind the scenes and the film making of Speed Racer, in a walkthrough loaded with explicative contents, such as 3D animations, bubbles and CGIs. His team - and namely Dennis Martin, Lubo Hristow and Jake Morrison - take you in in-depth coverages on the ways to create a poptimistic photo anime, which sets a new tread for VR industry and is set to become a new benchmark for all future film production.   http://www.vrmag.org/speedracer  360Icon, with its panoramas of abandoned places is another great example on how a virtual experience can go beyond reality's limits: extreme HDR allows you to see more than your eyes could in everyday life. Grasp the colors that your brain does not usually process!  The world seen from the sky is always a breathtaking view. For that reason, Bernd Dohrmann, Tabb Firchau, Scott Haefner showcase their best shots, to confirm Leonardo Da Vinci's famouse quote that "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return". Probably he did not take into account that the humankind would have then overshot the atmosphere...We did, and either the NASA or Yoshito Takagi takes you within the modules of ISS and MIR.  Something should be noted here: since we care about pollution, we'd like to inform you that Scott Haefner kite is - as the name implies - a zero emission..."transport mode". On the same wave, Tabb Firchaus's RC heli doesn't leave any carbon imprint, given that it is powered by lithium batteries!...And if you're packing your luggage to explore the world, ask Willy Kaemena about the best trains to jump into: you do not need to go by car!  Our columnist Pat St. Clair reviews the ultimate stitcher Stitcher Autopano Pro while Michel Thoby explains how to create a pano head out of your toolbox.  Looking for romantic skies? Look no more. Bernd again, did shot the one. Wondering what you teeth see? Wonder no more. Dr. Riley has the answer. Otherwise, check Paul Stewart's site to get advices on the cruises along the Mekong. Geoffrey Morelle will accompany you to the art exhibitions which take place inside a swimming pool.  Are you in search of dramatic experiences? Your adrenaline will rush with Tristan Shu's action packed images, and with Aloha Dean's scuba diving missions. And you know what? You've just been invited to a wedding, which has immortalized by Mike Jensen (and no, you do not have to stay for hours long dinners!)...  Sarah Kenderdine talks about the Eye of the Nagaur, a pioneering interactive digital multimedia installation made with state of the art photographic and visualisation technologies.  In this issue we have 4 outstanding guest artists:  The duo Wright-George, who created - with its Godin's sphere - what we consider as being a breakthrough in the field of immersive visual concept art. As well, enjoy Will Pearson's transfiguration of the commonplaces while Timothée Eisenegger takes you on a world trip in VR and finally Dennis Martin, one of the world's leading expert on using spherical photography in virtual locations for movies, talks about his Speed Racer experience: shooting 10'000 panos in 6 months.  VR Industry:  Since when Zoomify VR was discontinued, we were waiting to know the possibilities that KRPano is offering: we had a conversation with Klaus its developer, to discover that...Henning Kramer talks about the MKpanomachine and Roberto Mancuso shares his tutorial on the Quick Pan Professional.  On the technical side, we updated VRMAG's media viewer, which now delivers Flash VR to non QT systems, and we added comments below the articles. Oh yes, we hope to see lots of them ;-)  For the first time, you'll see ads on VRMAG. Be indulgent, since this fact has 2 reasons: first the steadily increasing traffic (in order to guarantee worldwide fast viewing of the multimedia content of the articles we activated a CDS - content delivery system - which creates additional costs) and second we need to raise funds for an upcoming community project, that we'll launch in the next months.  ... And don't forget to write us about your VR projects and ideas, VRMag is the right place to reach a wider audience. At the time I'm writing this newsletter we are linked from the homepages of BoingboingTV, Slashdot.org, CGSociety, 3DTotal and many more.  More explosive than ever, issue nr. 30 marks our jubilee. Are you ready to party?  You're just a click away from enjoying the new VRMAG issue!  Your Marco Trezzini and the VRMag team  VRMag Issue 30 is online: http://www.vrmag.org  
     

I am not sure I have seen this on the list, so I thought I would pass this along.  http://www.vrmag.org/speedracer/  Very cool stuff and a great use of VR.  
-Craig 
  

Hi everyone,

I've just added a number of images (VR and stills) to our site of Brent Tor
Church.  Is quite an odd Church being on top of a tor on the edge of
Dartmoor - UK.  Brent tor church sits at a height of 1130feet/325m on
volcanic rock, below the granite tor are the remaining earthworks of what is
described as an Iron Age hillfort.

Please have a look if you've a moment and let me know what you think, it's
quite a magical place - 

http://www.sphereworks.co.uk/iotm_may_brent.php


Cheers,

Peter
Sphereworks Ltd
www.sphereworks.co.uk


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On 5/5/2008 6:34 AM, Keith Martin's hamster got loose on the keyboard
and typed ...:
 Sometime around 4/5/08 (at 21:33 -0300) AYRTON said:

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Swovelin 
Cool Guy @ Large 




     

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Keith Martin <email@hidden> wrote: > quoted text
    Yeah on the editor you have the option to choose the perspective correction or not, the fisheye effect or not and also all the angle views .. 
 Vey clever.    > quoted text [...]

[...]

Very useful. I actualloy prefer the KRPano example, although I'm 
still not convinced by the fisheye mapping. That's optional, right? 

 The music made me smile - what is it?
(Oh, it seems to be stereo for the KRPano example but mono for the others. [...]

Hi,  I want to buy the Wireless Remoter Shutter for Canon 300/400 D. I have found some suefull inks on the net. Before buying want to make sure that I am buying the best and latest product.  The range can must be above 10 meters / 100 meters.  Here is the links.  http://cgi.ebay.com. [...]

Regarding the sound track:    Ayrton I know the music as <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=269218116&id=269217752&s=143443> Flight of a Bumble Bee   but a check at itunes store  shows me also  <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? [...]

On 5/4/2008 1:31 AM, Markus Altendorff's hamster got loose on the
keyboard and typed ...:
Paul
Fretheim wrote:

[...]

Thunderbird to send HTML mail (like this one) all of the time including
URLs (like this
http://www.fandango.com/91387_movietheatershowtimes? [...]

Guys  sorry for the cross-posting.  I'm very happy testing different players at this moment.  Thanks to all devellopers for this oportunity :-) 
    I invite you guys to check it out on my website.   Thanks for the visits and to those who sign up on the RSS,   [...]

[...]

Do you have your mail program set to send HTML messages? 
Thunderbird has an option to send text, HTML, or text+html 
(you can pre-set this in the address book entry for each 
recipient). 

text+HTML messages are really two messages in one mail, with  [...]

[...]

      just sending a normal email to the list owner or moderators !     AYRTON      

[...]

I just replied to your message and used my address book to get the
quicktimeVR list address. 

When the messages go out via the digest version of the list there is [...]

[...]

I don't remember how to do that.

[...]

I just replied to your message and used my address book to get the
quicktimeVR list address. 

When the messages go out via the digest version of the list there is
nothing there except the message about the scrub. 

Thank you for your help on this. [...]

I should have said that the dome is up on a perimeter base on 2-foot high posts, so I'll have enough room for a tripod, with the lens horizontally level with the base or lower edge of the hemisphere. I'm trying to get my mind into the mirror on the lazy susan. [...]

On May 3, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Milko K. Amorth wrote:  
Hi Caroling,

[...]

At first try, the number of images doesn't match what I have done  
previously, so I need to study this more.

[...]

Wow, now that is a valuable offer. It will be in late June, July, or  
August. Date not yet set. [...]

[...]

Yeah - no attachments.  Just some
http://inyopro.com/division_creek_rainbow.swf type links.

[...]

I use Thunderbird on an XP machine these days.  I have sent many links
in exactly the same way, as far as I can tell, with only occasional
"scrub" problems. [...]

Why are my links seen as something to be scrubbed?  Does anyone have any 
information on that?  I just included links to some panos like always, 
so why is the message getting "scrubbed?" 

 Thanks.  
Paul

[...]

I would have thought, without using
mirrors the closest you’re going to get is with the lens laid down, so it
is looking at the horizon and then field of view would look up.   

     

 This way with the camera touching the
floor, and the lens as close down as you can get, that’ [...]

Shooting from bottom center of a 14 foot diameter dome, a hemisphere, Canon 10-22mm lens,  any tips?  In other words the horizon would be the bottom of the dome. Each point of the surface of the dome would be 7 feet (about 2 meters)  from the lens. The finished pano would be 360 degrees around but only 90 degrees from horizon to vertex.   I have a fisheye single shot from the center, but the quality of detail is poor. I'd like high quality.     Caroling Geary, www.wholeo.net              

In December, I  spent some time looking into AutoPano Pro.   It is a nice program, but I did not invest enough hours to learn how to effectively manipulate its control point system and other alignment features.     I find PTGui really does all I need. [...]

Anyone have experience with a program: Autopano Pro?
Looks to have impressive abilities.  
 Thanks,
Curt

I think with the Android open source project by Google
http://code.google.com/android/

The release of the Flash code by Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/

And the more interactive mobile hardware, the future is going to become very
interesting indeed. [...]

I sent this message yesterday without the link to a pano of roughly the
same area which burned last summer, so there is a big contrast between
these two panoramas.  The digest version of my message from yesterday
was very abbreviated "html attachment scrubbed" so I guess I broke some [...]

You can get one of these to put on the front of a video camera;  
 http://www.kaidan.com/Detail.bok?no=101  
 On 02/05/2008, at 3:18 AM, Johnnie LeFebvre wrote:  
I am interested in this as well. This Lucid Viewer is pretty awesome  
stuff in my book.. [...]

Hi All! 

You got to check this one out.  It's been in the can since '05 and I
just got it produced to pano today.  There are some lupines out this
spring, but it's not as good as in '05. 

http://inyopro.com/lupines&rainbow.html 

What do you think? 
 [...]

OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
Adobe has done it and they are officially now the centre of the  
interactive universe.  'As if they we not already'.  This is a HUGE  
announcement by Adobe and could mean a lot for those interactive QTVR  
producers. http://www.adobe. [...]

I am interested in this as well. This Lucid Viewer is pretty awesome  
stuff in my book.. Is the Ladybug video camera the only item  
available to do video 360s? What else could I use? 
What I also like is that nothing has to be installed. Great!!! 

 Johnnie LeFebvre   David C   [...]

Keith,  Keith> it seems like the perfect bit of precision kit for guerilla pano shoots  Keith>and when shooting in lively crowds.   That is pretty much why we came up with it. When I have taken shots in a 'tourist mode' (i.e. lugging tripod+cam around with me and walking from spot to spot) I have always been wary of lugging the tripod with the head+cam over my shoulder. It's certainly the easiest way to pickup+move a tripod, but you have a lot of weight and ££££ exposed and behind you. Removing and attaching the camera to head is preferable in this situation, but I personally can never be bothered to do this in the field and just throw the lot over my shoulder!  With this system you shoot with the camera still strapped around your neck, never needing to unstrap it from yourself. Slap the tripod up, clip cam into head, meter the scene, shoot, and unclip. Camera safely under side of arm, tripod over other,  move on. It should certainly make shooting in larger and more busy areas quite a bit more efficient and less worrysome.  In an ideal world of course we would have a team of strong assistants to do all the lugging for us.....but of course photographers that can afford a team are not our target audience with this one :-D  Kindest,  Stu  PS. Matt has been bugging me to go and shoot a set of VR's from around Cambridge. When I get the sig 8 3.5 head back I'll go and do a field study with it and my D300, which incidentally is a very impressive cam, highly recommended!