The Times' New HomeThere's some good work being done out there, panoramic is starting to catch on. Ray Jones and the crew at NYT Digital just did a series of views of the Times' new building in NYC. There's a package of multmedia, including four panoramas in the Arts section of nytimes.com.
Talk about a high-profile project right out of the box! This is their first published shot at panorama as far as I know. Ray was quizzing me a week or so ago about panoramas, and they obviously have been working hard. An excellent first effort for them.
I had originally posted that they were using Flash Panoramas for their presentation. However, I'm told by multimedia producer Gabriel Dance that it's actually an in-house solution he developed.
Sad to say, but QuickTime VR seems to be on the wane due to lack of support from Apple. It was fun while it lasted.
3 comments:
hi gary,
a heads up for you. we're not using flashpanoramas to present our work. we're using a custom 3D solution I implemented.
thanks for all the help with shooting.
gabriel dance
Gabriel:
Wow, you guys rock. It looks great and is very smooth. Thanks for the update.
Gary
Hey Gary:
Thanks for the post about the NYTimes presentation -- it's slick!
I bet they're using Papervision 3D to hammer out the Flash presentation. It's good, but not quite as flexible as something like Flash Panorama Player. They may find that something out-of-the-box like FPP will give them more customization ability & better image quality.
In any case, kudos to them -- looks good! The nuts and bolts stuff is secondary...
Cheers,
Patrick
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