Re: [videoblogging] QTVR panorama opportunities @Vloggercon?

[Markus Sandy]

there are a few bridges and scenic spots that might lend themselves to panoramas: http://www.wayoutthere.com/qtvr/haight-ashbury.html http://www.wayoutthere.com/qtvr/san_francisco.html http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/geoimages/qtvr/CentralCalif/CivicCenterPlazaNSide.html http://www.highton.com/pages/qtvrdisplays/ggbridgelev1.html http://www.worldserver.com/turk/quicktimevr/ and it appears that Muybridge was using quicktime to make panorama's back in 1878 ;) http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/pix/qtvr/sfpanorama.html B Yen wrote: I'm getting into QTVR panos, I'd like to do some at Vloggercon.  Are there any good San Francisco places that lend itself to 360 degree panoramas? See http://www.360vr.com http://www.rcfisher.com http://www.jumplive.com/lbgp06/index.html http://360vr.com/BYen/ [ for some reason, my website is down at http://www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl06/secl06.html ] http://www.rcfisher.com/eclipse/ [ that pano with the umbrella & bay, is the place in Dahab where the terrorist bombing happened.  The CNN article referred to "body parts" flung into the bay..that was the place!  I was eating breakfast there & my hotel was 100 ft away.  I missed getting blown up by 4 weeks! ] I'd like to do one, with some Vlogger pioneers in the pic.  Say, at the San Francisco water front.  Or, the Exploratorium: http://www.exploratorium.edu at one of the exhibits, say video-technology one.  Or, do some conventional photography (get creative) with pioneers like: xxx [ I need to know who they are, I'm not that well informed in this regard ] Sidenote: Check out the Exploratorium's video-podcast of their Live eclipse project: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/Download_Store/pages/eclipse2006.html Mine is also avialable on the "Eclipse Science" video-podcast over iTunes, see the video-blog at: http://eclipsescience.blogspot.com [ scroll way down to the bottom, or click on upper-right icon to take yourself to iTunes ] I blogged my entire eclipse trip: http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com http://solareclipse.textamerica.com I was amazed at the Internet connectivity in all the Egypt places I went, even a hole-in-the-wall Internet Cafe in Sallum/Egypt (small border town, Egypt & Libya border): http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=22897 http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4517509&_ctgry=22897 [ this Internet Cafe was in a back-alley, on the 2nd floor..talk about 3rd world type of thing.  They were using *shared bandwidth* over get this..DIALUP!!  Man, were the downloads slow!  But, it was nevertheless a Internet hookup.  The manager was Egyptian, with an American wife in Detroit..unbelievable. ] Check out this Internet Cafe in Marsa-Matrouh (between Sidi Barani & El Alamein..big names in WWII history): http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=23120 http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4523913&_ctgry=23120 http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4523911&_ctgry=23120 [ that's a very attractive Internet Cafe operator, BTW! ] There was a really excellent Internet Cafe in Dahab (along Red Sea, across from Saudi Arabia..north of Sharm El-Sheikh, that place the politicians goto to meet about "Middle East issues" ].  Don't have a pic, but it was DSL access & the manager spoke good English & was very knowledgable..who was Christian BTW.  I have his contact into (email).  Unfortunately, Dahab was the place that got hit by the "terrorist bombing" (One man's terrorist, is another man's Freedom-Fighter). I even blogged usiing the DSL computer terminal at Magy Hotel in Cairo/Egypt.. no charge!  See: http://www.hostelz.com/hotel/32502-Magy-Hotel [ you can see the Internet terminal in those pics ] I even blogged from the house I stayed in Salloum: http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?_ctgry=22895 http://solareclipse.textamerica.com/?r=4495346&_ctgry=22895 http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com/ [ scroll down for entry "Raining on Mar 27 (morning), what !?" ] & the condo @Marsa Matrouh: http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com/ [ scroll down for entry "Blogging from Marsa-Matrouh" ] The above 2 places were down with dialup connection. SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. -- Markus Sandy http://apperceptions.org http://spinflow.org SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.