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Re: Globorama
Robert Bilsland 2008-May-25 17:28:00
Willy,
Thanks for putting yourself out to eye ball what the "Globorama"
really is. From the descriptions it's something to see. Enjoy your
train ride home, last time I was on a train going that fast I was
going to / returning from Disneyland Paris.
Bob Bilsland.
--- In #removed#, Willy Kaemena <wkaemena@...> wrote:
>
> OK folks
>
> I am ready with my 5h exhibition visit of Globorama. here some facts:
>
> - They use some WWP apparently form 2006 and before
> - the panos are used in a partial non interactive cylindrical
> projection and it bears several times on the 360 degrees the name of
> the photographer.
> - The panos are coming from their local server
> - the satellite maps used are NOT from Google Earth, but Microsoft
> according them, due too license problems wit GE......
> - whatever I could capture on video will be put together showing as an
> evidence with the name of the photographer and the pano This movie
> should be online in a few hours from now.
> - asking about when Globorama was developed they answered from 2006
> onwards.
> - next planned exhibitions are planned in France and Seville Spain.
> - as already known from their website, they show WWP panoramas from
> their local server and live webcams is the only content being streamed.
> - the navigation with the laser pointer is way cool.
>
> OK now putting the movie together... while traveling at 250km/h
> towards my home in Bremen...
>
>
> And then lets decide what to do with them....
>
> Quite a lot of public and sponsor money went to this project...
>
>
> Willy Kaemena
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/wkaemena/FSPanos/Menu268.html
> http://bremen.360cities.net/
> http://syria.360cities.net/
> http://lisbon.360cities.net/
>
> On May 25, 2008, at 8:17, Willy Kaemena wrote:
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> > Bostjan
> >
> > I am quite sure that the presentation of the panorama controlled with
> > a laser pointer is quite unique. But again that gives them no rights
> > to present the WWP without prior release or negotiation by each
> > photographer.
> >
> > Just heading towards Stuttgart at 125 mph ( 200km/h) soon
> > accelerating to 186 mph ( 300km/h)
> >
> > Willy
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 24, 2008, at 18:51, Bostjan Burger wrote:
> >
> >>> Bo Lorentzen : "This page is presenting the panorama fest as the
> >> artwork or
> >> presentation by Bernd Lintermann, Joachim B?ttger, Torsten
> >> Belschner. Which
> >> clearly it is not."
> >>
> >> That is another ?BINGO?! Yes ...whose artwork was projection anyway?
> >> Ours or of the organizers of the Globorama project? I am familiar
> >> with such installations as Globorama ? it is trivial example: my
> >> daughters asked me to drive them to Disneyland in Paris and what I
> >> saw there ? a great 'cyclorama alike' theatre where was projected
> >> 360? movie (that was in the year 2003), I think that was a Voyage of
> >> Jules Verne over the France. The feeling of watching the movie was
> >> fantastic and the technology of the projection was the same as this
> >> one in Stuttgart, at least what I saw in the previously posted
> >> movie. In Disneyland was projected 360? movie (do you remember
> >> Jeffrey's movie over the Prague ? 360cities.net?), but there in
> >> Stuttgart was projected the interactive VR panorama. So I consider
> >> that the "artwork point" of the installation was the possibility to
> >> grab (read: hijack) the pano from the "free" internet and project it
> >> on the 360? wall? After my na?ve experience from the
> >> past I had put on my web site - translated from Slovene language:
> >> "All data, text, photos, pictures and VR panoramas are owned by the
> >> author. No other use like storing to other servers, hot linking,
> >> copy-pasting, modifying images is not allowed. "
> >> I am really curious what is happening in Stuttgart, unfortunately
> >> there is seven hours drive from my place to there and I have a lack
> >> of time at the moment
> >
> >>
> >> :) Bostjan
> >>
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> >
> > Willy Kaemena
> >
> > http://homepage.mac.com/wkaemena/FSPanos/Menu268.html
> > http://bremen.360cities.net/
> > http://syria.360cities.net/
> > http://lisbon.360cities.net/
> >
> >
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