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Re: displaying VR panos
John Riley 2011-Apr-15 20:43:00
(Said tongue in cheek) Perhaps you should ask Herr Lintermann at ZKM to provide his Globorama for use at the conference. BTW - did anyone ever get settlement from them over their theft of our work?
John
On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Don Bain wrote:
> Let me share a few thoughts about presenting VR panoramas. As you know I am deeply involved in promoting this media form.
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> At the Panoramic Photography Festival in Palmela we will have both live presentations and traditional exhibits. I will be presenting some of my own work in an exhibit of prints, which will be introduced by a talk, so I get to do both - interactive (controlled by me) and prints on the wall. Plus everything I will show is already on my website, so people can interact directly with the VR panoramas on their own computers or iPads.
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> I am also working behind the scenes to put together an exhibit of other people's work. This will consist solely of prints and written captions. Since we are choosing participants specifically for their work in 360? interactive, it is ironic that we will only be presenting printed works. We wrestled with this one and had to accept the reality that we do not have the time or resources to present truly interactive works on the scale of exhibit that we have planned.
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> First there is the cost of providing flat-panel displays and computers (or tablets) to drive them, plus the security issue for an exhibit that will be open to the public for several months.
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> Second is the authoring time to put together a kiosk-type display. The technology is there, and if we devised a template we could re-use it for future shows. But the time and manpower to do this would be in addition to all the other work of recruiting participants and preparing their work for display. Maybe next time.
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> So, reluctantly, we fall back on "prints on the wall". Which poses another challenge - the images were in most cases intended for interactive display, and may not be ideally suited for static prints. I found that only a small proportion of my VR's could be re-purposed to my satisfaction, and I felt that many of those might have been better if I had been thinking of prints when I shot them.
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> A paradigm shift is required when migrating from interactive spheres to flat prints. Pan/tilt/zoom gets replaced by choice of projection, cropping (or not), and rotation within the frame. Plus considerations of resolution (number of pixels), color management, dimensions and proportions, mounting, and lighting.
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> We are looking into a technology that may help bring the two forms together. It uses a target printed on each picture caption that can be read by camera-equipped phones or tablets, and links to the interactive version of the pano on a website. I am not altogether happy with the idea of people viewing my panos at phone resolution, but an iPad gives as good a view as a computer.
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> Maybe "next time" we can check out a tablet to each exhibit-goer, so they can wander around looking at the prints, then view the interactive version by scanning the caption card, or a printed program. All we need is a sponsor to loan us enough tablets, good security, and excellent insurance!
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> Don
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