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Re: What is VR going to be called by the General Public.
tflyfish2002 2005-Jan-21 18:23:00
Don,
Thanks for your great reply. I must say that both IQTVRA and IVRPA are
both quite a mouthful. I doubt if anyone will ever search for either
of those on any search engine! Whist the terms that you suggest look
wok to those that practice the art of pano's, I'm not sure that the
masses will ever search on those either. My feeling is that pano's
will become a intrical part of a great number of web sites in the
future as well as marketing tools in the way of CD's that are
currently sent out by a large number of companies. Even the US Army
has a CD you can order. I have not seen it but imagine that instead of
just a video it included a number of VR's, just imagine that you can
now see Interactively the inside of a tank, or maybe the inside of a
Cobra helicopter etc. The big advantage of VR is that you can be
interactive with the scene, with CD you can only stop, start and
rewind etc. Zooming and panning is not really practical with this
media whereas with VR it is.
Wow, I have used the expression VR a number of times in the above text
because typing the other terms is to much hassle for me, what we
really need something much the same for our art. I don't think that
differentiating between cylindrical and Spherical is necessary, for
the view there is really not a lot of difference. As far as a Panorama
goes that a landscape with a lot of horizon to me.
Regards,
Barry--- In #removed#, G. Donald Bain <#removed#> wrote:
> Good question. The way it is now, how do you search for this type of
> media on Google? Too many possibilities. Most people who have seen it
> don't know how to ask for more.
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> One of our goals for the World Wide Panorama is to set an example of
> standard terminology, to get thousands of links on the search engines
> all with the same terms.
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> The terms we favor are: VR photography, VR panorama, and VR object,
> along with virtual reality photography.
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> The IQTVRA (International QuickTime VR Association) has changed its
> name to IVRPA (International VR Photography Association). Hans Nyberg's
> panoramas.dk site uses the terms VR photography, VR photographers, and
> virtual reality photography. Scott Highton's site is vrphotography.com,
> which he spells out Virtual Reality Photography. Erik Goetze's VRLog
> blog site uses photographic virtual reality.
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> So it seems there is a convergence on these terms. The IVRPA board of
> directors debated this at length. Some strongly favor terms such as
> virtual tour and immersive imagery, which is fine, as long as everyone
> also uses VR photography/VR panorama/VR object etc.
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> The main objection to VR photography is possible confusion with the
> sort of virtual reality with goggles and gloves. For this reason we
> decided to use "VR" instead of spelling it out "virtual reality", and
> to always pair it with another word, as in "VR panoramas". With
> constant use acronyms like this take on a meaning of their own.
> Everyone knows what DNA is, but how often do you think of it as
> desoxyribonucleic acid?
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> i will be writing to this list again soon about what we can all do to
> promote VR photography, and one of the things I will stress is standard
> terminology.
>
> Don
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> G. Donald Bain
> Geography Computing Facility
> University of California Berkeley
> On Jan 20, 2005, at 7:03 PM, tflyfish2002 wrote:
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> > With Jook's excellent TV spot VR and Pano's is really get some
> > mainstream attention, my personal guess is that we are going to see a
> > lot more websites using it in the near future.
> > My question is what is it going to be know as by the general public
> > and the media? Just VR? Or Pano? All-around?
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> > What do you think?
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