Photojournalist Dominik Baumann has just created a virtual tour of the world’s longest railway tunnel located in the Alps.
It has been published on the website of Blick newspaper.
Congratulations to Dominik for this original immersion.
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The definition attributed to a virtual tour is well known by everyone. “A set of dynamic panoramas allowing a simulation of an existing location according to the end user’s request”.
However, Abdou Diouri (photograph) & NkodeM (rapper & cartoonist of Manioka, a comic book claiming to be a futuristic & ironic metaphor on topical urban drifts), by their common work, bring something new to the building of virtual tours…
Indeed, Manioka brilliantly shows that virtual tours are not only dedicated to world of photography, on the contrary! Virtual tours can serve many other causes as in this case, drawing and promoting a new comic book.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012 after a 570-million-km journey & 8 months spent in space. It will now embark on a mission of at least two years to look for evidence that Mars may once have supported life. Thanks to panoramic images published by the Nasa with the previous Opportunity robot, here is a virtual tour of Planet Mars…
Photos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
Virtual tour: Eirik Helland Urke/Gigapix.no
Software solutions: Autopano Pro (image stitching software) et Panotour Pro (virtual tour software)
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photo credits: ESO
The European Southern Observatory has just published a 9 Gigapixel image of the Milky Way. This new image has allowed to locate 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way.
VISTA infrared survey telescope collected all the data in order to create a 108 100 by 81500 pixels image. This enormous dataset is an impressive leap over previous similar studies, containing more than ten times the stars of previous work.
A virtual tour made with Panotour Pro is available on the website of the ESO, here.
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Fantag and the Polish Football Association published a 23.8 Gigapixel of the FIFA World Cup qualifier between Poland and England. The shooting has been made with a Nikon D800 and a Clauss Rodeon VR head.
It has been published as a virtual tour with Panotour Pro. There is a facebook tagging included and it counts more than 2500 people already.
Visit Fantag’s website to watch this panorama!
For your information, here is the computer configuration used to stitch the 350 photos:
Fujitsu Celsius R670-2
2xIntel Xeon E5645 2.4 Ghz 12 Mb
RAM 128 Gb DDR3
HDD0 2x 600 Gb SAS 15k Rpm
HDD1 2x 1 Tb SATAIII 7.2 RPM
nVidia Quatro 600 1 Gb
Autopano version 3 is yet to be released, be ready! Meanwhile you can try the RC 1 version!
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Rami Saarikorpi, a Finland-based VR panoramic photographer has just published an iBook named “360panorama.fi”. This iBook is a contemporary & original way of showing his projects and works.
360panorama.fi (Credit Photo: Rami Saarikorpi)
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On its website, Blick.ch tells us a nice story… A six-month-old baby’s heart has stopped. As Dr Michael Hubler (right) and his team repair a hole in Fabrizio’s heart, the boy is kept alive in the 90-minute procedure by the heart-lung machine behind the surgeon at the Children’s Hospital in Zurich pumping blood into his body.
An operation on a six-month-old baby
Dominik Baumann worked since last fall to get a permission for doing this panoramashooting. He had to wear clothes like the doctor to be sterile and was not allowed to come closer than 1 meter to the surgery table. Thanks to Panotour Pro, Dominik added hotspots to explain important steps & functions of each person during a heart surgery. This tour was published in Blick.ch’s website as well on the iPad App of Blick.
Each person has a crucial job
Happily, the operation has been a great success. A week after this picture was taken, Fabrizio was able to leave hospital with his mother. All’s well that ends well…
Doctor's delight for his patient next day
If you want to read the full story, visit Blick.ch
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Jerzy Pajor won the title of Kolor best panoramic photographer 2012. Let us get to know with this talented photographer.
I was very happy. My friends and family were proud of my prize. The priest of the Bazylika also enjoyed & congratulated me a lot. He bought 10 Panobooks!
The Bazylika Mariacka is one of the most beautiful churches in Poland. It was very interesting experience. I started to shot panorama at 6 am to avoid crowd and took 7 hours, because there was low light. I used exposure time 1/30 – 10 seconds, Canon EOS 5 MarkII + Canon EF 50mm f/1,4 + Nodal Ninja 5, 71 images + 30 images HDR, Autopano Giga, Photoshop, Panotour Pro.
I also made the 5 gigapixels photography The Veit Stoss altar, a virtual tour of Lausanne, the Schweizer National-Circus KNIE and many more. I love this job! In all projects I use my Panogear, Autopano Giga and Panotour Pro.
I will send my panorama soon because this week I have a session in a very interesting place…
I’m not thinking about winning, I prefer to be surprised again.
Discover Autopano Giga, Panotour Pro & Panogear.
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Nuno Madeira, a Portuguese Photographer, invites us to visit New York. He has just published a virtual tour that integrates multiple panoramas! You can though look over all famous places like Time Square, Soho, Central Park, the Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, West Village and so on.
He discovered New York in 2010, and got a love at first sight. Today he wants to share his love for the city through his work.
Technically speaking, he used a Canon 1000D and a 10-17 Tokina lens, without a tripod. Each panorama is composed of 9 to 15 photos. This project required 3 years of work and has been relayed on National Geographic Portugal and Petapixel.
The virtual tour has been made with Panotour Pro 1.8. Nuno created his own themes and brought his personal touch so that the virtual tour looks like no other.
Nuno is 33 year old 360 photographer/Architect/Web-designer, you can look his work on his personal and professional website.
Don’t forget that Panotour 2 will be available soon, go there for the latest news!
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On its website, Blick.ch, publishes the first public virtual tour made with Panotour Pro version 2. Climb aboard, fasten your seatbelt and experience the PC-7 TEAM, an aerobatics team of the Swiss Air Force, over Switzerland arround 400 kph!
Dominik Baumann, professional photographer and Panotour Pro version 2 beta tester, took the shot & made the virtual tour. If you want to read his feelings about the flight, just visit Blick.ch.
We agree with some comments which say that the design of the tour could have been better! However, for some reasons, Blick.ch decided to publish a simpler version of the original tour we submitted. Here is the tour made by Kolor & Dominik Baumann:
Read more:
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In its issue of June 2013, the French magazine Science & Vie publishes a special report about scene crime investigation. “Investigators are now able to take a virtual walk through a murder scene, with the creation of interactive thanks to Panotour Pro. With the click of a mouse, observers can tour a site, moving through rooms, zooming in on weapons and blood spatters, and learning just whose DNA has been discovered where“.
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Kolor is glad to show you another great example of virtual tour made with Panotour Pro version 2. This time the tour integrates LivePano, an addon for Panotour 2! Let’s have a look to the cha dian, tea store:
What is LivePano?
LivePano is a tool extending Panotour 2, providing user an easy way to merge video content into a virtual tour. LivePano allows you to have a smooth transition between dynamic content (coming from video) and still content (coming from panorama), including a tool to set a blending mask & color correction. The result ? The video is perfectly integrated to the tour.
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Kolor is glad to show you another example of virtual tour using Panotour Pro version 2 & its addon, LivePano. The tour takes place in Iceland, it shows Gullfoss’ waterfall and is made by Luc Villeneuve during the IVRPA conference which took place in June 2013.
What is LivePano?
LivePano is a tool extending Panotour 2, providing user an easy way to merge video content into a virtual tour. LivePano allows you to have a smooth transition between dynamic content (coming from video) and still content (coming from panorama), including a tool to set a blending mask & color correction. The result ? The video is perfectly integrated to the tour.
Must watch:
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The Los Angeles Times, largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the United States highlights the virtual tour made by the Swiss panoramic photographer Dominik Baumann published on Blick.ch and reveals how he made this astonished virtual tour with Panotour Pro 2.0.
“Shooting panoramas on firm ground typically involves taking a series of photos with a super wide-angle lens while pivoting the camera around a fixed point. The digital images are then processed through software to combine them, usually, seamlessly. In Baumann’s case almost nothing would be ideal for shooting…”
Read the full article on Los Angeles Times’ website
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Kolor is currently developing Panotour and Panotour Pro 2.0, the new version of the world’s reference virtual tour software application for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Visit the special Panotour Pro 2.0 page to discover the new features of this version.
Our team is still fixing some bugs reported during the private beta stage. If no major bug arises in the coming weeks, we expect a first public beta to be ready by the end of September. Of course, we’d like this public beta to be as stable and usable as possible, this is why it is so important to take time to hunt and fix as many bugs as possible.
A private beta is currently available. Private means it is reserved to well-informed public used to testing software that is still under development. If you’d like to apply for a private beta access, contact us and request access. We advise you not to join this beta program if you’re a beginner in virtual tour creation or if you’re not used to trying software that is under development. The current version of Panotour Pro 2.0 is still buggy and the aim of this beta program is to find the bugs and solve them before the final release.
However precise our roadmap is, we’re dependent on the bugs that will inevitably arise during the beta stage. To avoid any disappointment, we prefer not to communicate any date for the final release. We know there is a huge expectation on this piece of software and we do our best to match two goals at the same time: release the final version as quickly as possible while providing a software application that is stable and that you’ll be able to use serenely.
As you may know, we’re already selling the licenses for version 2 on the Kolor Store. This lets you unlock the demo mode of the private beta and use it as registered software. So if you’re happy with the private beta, you can already use it in your work. If you prefer to wait for the first public beta, you’ll still be able to buy a license and register your software at that moment. The application will get more and more stable as we approach the final release, so you don’t really need to wait for the release to begin using it.
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Kolor is pleased to release the first public beta after a period of six months in private beta development of its virtual tour creation software. You can now download it directly via our downloading center.
Technical support: Please use the dedicated forums: bug reports – help
Livepano, video sequences inside panoramas. Discover example virtual tours featuring Livepano.
The new version of the world’s reference virtual tour software application for Windows, Mac and Linux come with new features. Have a look on differences between version 1.8 and version 2.0.
Some Panotour plugins are written in JavaScript/HTML5 code. So if you build an Adobe Flash tour, and you want to test it locally, you’ll need to test the tour within a local webserver. Panotour contains an internal webserver, so you do not need a webserver if you click on the “View last built tour” green icon.
Even if we’re in a beta stage, you can already purchase a license of Panotour 2 or Panotour Pro 2 to unlock the demo mode. If you already own a license of version 1.x, discover your special upgrade options. Without a registration code, you can still work with Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 but you’ll get the following limitations:
IMPORTANT
This first public beta contains a known issue on the Gallery plugin. If your Alpha project contains a gallery, you’ll have to remove this plugin and recreate it.
If you do not re-create your gallery plugin, a crash will occur during the build of the tour.
New features
User Interface
- Tour File system management
During the process of a tour creation you may build your tour many times, with different parameters, different panoramas, etc…
The directory in which you build your tour may contains extra files that are not needed by the last built tour.
A file manager window describing which files are mandatory and which files seem to be useless can be opened using the last icon of the toolbar.
The “red” files are the files that the tour built by Panotour may not need.
You can delete those files by checking them, and click on the “Delete selected files” button.
If you did not copied any file into the tour data directory, all the red files should be deleted.
If you copied some files into this directory, and if those files are needed by the tour, be sure to uncheck them if you click on the “Selection/Not needed files” button.
- Replace panorama file
A new entry is available in the contextual menu of a panorama.
Select a single panorama in the “Tour” area, and right click to see this new entry : “Replace panorama file”.
This entry allows you to replace the image(s) file(s) of the panorama.
The new image should have the same aspect ratio as the original image.
If you set some spots in the original image, the new image should also have the same heading to be sure that the spots fit the new panorama.
But they can have a different size. So you can for example have a low res version of a gigapixel panorama during your tour creation process, and when you are ready, change the panorama file with the gigapixel one.
This feature also allows you to prepare a big tour before the panoramas are even shot.
Fixed Bugs
User Interface
- Update panorama and groups comobo box when a panorama or a group is renamed
- “Load custom view” is the default target transition
- 0001956: Hotspot arrangement change from rows to columns. …
- 0001990: Resizeable preview in panorama properties
- 0002405: FloorPlan Compass UI : remove the compass arrow to avoid differents visions.
- 0002387: Unable to set negative vertical offset values in panorama projection properties
Plugins
- 0001860: Panorama Menu : there is a bad tooltip text over thumbnails
- 0001869: Kolor Box : iframe scrolling attribute use bad value
- 0001885: Thumbnails Stack : bad hidden with thumbnails button or controls
- 0001964: Description field : special characters management : [ ] , ” < > etc….
- 0002374: KolorFloorPlan : change the title style for multiple and single floorplan
- 0002378: KolorBox : add scrolling on iPad
- 0002388: Panorama Menu : Thumbs/Titles only for all panoramas display titles+thumbnails
- 0002389: PanoramaMenu : remove undefined groups of the all groups options
- 0002425: Description : show/hide events corrections + apply css for unordered/ordered lists
- 0002440: Change hideable plugins at start gestion to kept them visible if “respond to show/hide controls” isn’t checked
- 0002448: iControl Bar : help screen bugged
- 0002463: Social Share : deep linking values with & not taken in account
- 0002475: PDF Box is not draggable
- 0002484: Double start of the KolorMenu if respond to show/hide controls
- 0002488: PanoramaMenu : add injection verifications
- 0002489: FloorPlan : bad heading + fov values for the first radar displayed
- 0002506: Apply “close on new displayed object”, “close on new pano”, “pause autoration” on kolorBox and kolorArea based components
- 0002511: FloorPlan : test browser IE8 to remove canvas usage
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We released yesterday a first public beta of Panotour / Panotour Pro 2 virtual tour software and the Livepano addon for Panotour Pro 2. Here is a new Panotour tutorial and Livepano tutorial to let you learn how to create a virtual tour using Panotour Pro 2 and how to integrate a video part in it thanks to the Livepano addon.
Panotour Pro lets you create professional interactive virtual tours while the new Livepano addon lets you include video parts that are perfectly integrated in your virtual tour.
See the resulting virtual tour then watch the video case study:
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Kolor’s policy on demo software: “No feature limitation, no time limiation. Only watermarks on the rendered projects. You can try all features for as long as you want”.
All Kolor software solutions are available in demo versions. Even with the watermark displayed on the final result, you still will be able to work and realize your projects. You can fully use Autopano Giga, Panotour Pro and Livepano. Have a look on trial versions’ limitations:
Autopano Pro or Giga, image stitching software, allows you to stitch from 2 to thousands of images in order to generate panoramas.
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With Livepano, addon for Panotour Pro 2.0, merge videos with the still photographic content of your virtual tours to integrate, for instance a restaurant owner greeting customers. (Livepano is already included in Panotour Pro 2.0, you do not need to download something).
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Kolor is pleased to release the second public beta of its virtual tour software Panotour and Panotour Pro 2.0.
You can now download it directly via our Download Center.
Discover Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 Download the beta
Technical support: Please use the dedicated forums: bug reports – help
During the first run of Panotour/Panotour Pro 2.0 Beta 2, starting the application may take some time.
This extra time that will occur only during this first session is due to the removal of all temporary files that Panotour Pro did not erased in the previous beta version.
With this new version every temporary file used in a Panotour/Panotour Pro session are erased when closing Panotour.
The Panotour team is currently focused on bugs fixes, so no new feature should appear until the final release.
But we added a small one. In version 1.8, you were able to call external JavaScript functions on hotspots, but this was missing in version 2.0 beta 1.
Now the action chooser, on hotspot styles and on buttons plugins, contains a new advanced action: “Call a JavaScript function”.
- 0002545: [Feature] Actions : add javascript call as into PTP 1.8
- 0001437: [Algorithm] Cube faces generated for iPad tours are low quality and too sharp
- 0002026: [Algorithm] Bad id for controls added to existing project
- 0002341: [Algorithm] Kolor EXIF : no negative value for Vertical offset + horizon to 0 in autorotation
- 0002232: [Algorithm] Spot actions : Unchecked customized parameters are still kept instead of the one described in the style
- 0002535: [Algorithm] TEMP folder is not cleaned on close project/software on Windows
- 0002560: [Algorithm] Deleting a plugin does not update the spots that use its actions
- 0002589: [Algorithm] Bad vertical offset
- 0002586: [Algorithm] loading of 1.8 projects : spot tooltips should be loaded too
- 0002614: [Algorithm] Bad license contract in all installers
- 0002620: [Algorithm] Enhance default name of panorama when loading cube faces
- 0002662: [Algorithm] Floorplan image is not retrieved when the resources are moved
- 0002663: [Algorithm] A underscore is added to main floorplan image
- 0002664: [Algorithm] Floorplan : when the image is resetted the floorplan object is not deleted
- 0001024: [UI] Waiting Spinning Wheel displayed only once on 3D editor
- 0002101: [UI] Issue with pano preview refresh (toolbar)
- 0002595: [UI] UI : bad panorama preview display
- 0002579: [UI] Build without project file name doesn’t build but doesn’t inform the photographer
- 0002656: [UI] Minimum zoom erased when opening saved project
- 0002655: [UI] Set volume action is bugged
- 0002634: [UI] Add a message box asking for confirmation when deleting a spot style
- 0002485: [UI] After a build the 3D view in the load action of a Button plugin contains nothing
- 0002629: [UI] 3D view in action properties is too small
- 0002457: [UI] Partial panorama : field of view is redefined on each click (on horizontal or vertical)
- 0002596: [UI] Linux : centralView_bg.gif : Unsupported image format (the fix of this bug may also fix the crash during the start of Panotour/Panotour Pro on some Linux releases)
- 0002344: [UI] Add/remove actions : (+/-) give a crash
- 0002451: [UI] Alpha value are not saved with project
- 0002247: [UI] “Home” tab : display of HTML browser context menu !
- 0002529: [UI] “Home” tab : if a project file name contained two dots “.” , the name was cut to the first one
- 0002246: [UI] 3 Links are not working in the “Home” tab
- 0002309: [Plugin] PanotourMenu : add window constraints for sub-menu items
- 0002342: [Plugin] Display problem under phone Android devices with or without the desktop mode
- 0002357: [Plugin] Add plugins compatibility check between PTP versions
- 0002510: [Plugin] Add an option in the Social Share plugin to share a specific URL
- 0002514: [Plugin] Compass : change open/close/toggle action for map and floor plan
- 0002521: [Plugin] KolorBox : size of the title must fill the header size
- 0002523: [Plugin] Floor Plan : hotspots aligned on bottom are broken
- 0002524: [Plugin] KolorArea : add close icon and overlay for the area
- 0002538: [Plugin] FloorPlan : close on click
- 0002551: [Plugin] KolorBox : video not loaded from youtube and dailymotion short urls
- 0002554: [Plugin] VideoBox : add autoplay option
- 0002561: [Plugin] PanotourMaps : bad attribution of the area background color
- 0002580: [Plugin] Android view is tearing/glitches on mobile phone
- 0002585: [Plugin] Boxes : remove the loading picture when the item is loaded
- 0002607: [Plugin] Add “opened at start” for Description plugin
- 0002638: [Plugin] Open pdf action must use double quote to encasulate URL
- 0002640: [Plugin] dblclick plugin is blocked by adblock
- 0002641: [Plugin] Social Share : start opened method
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With the Livepano addon for Panotour Pro 2, your virtual tours come to life! Insert one or more video zones within the photographic content: Livepano automatically places the videos above the background panorama and you can adjust its blending mask for the best possible inclusion quality. Discover in this article why you need Autopano Pro/Giga 3 and Panotour Pro 2 to create Livepano-enabled virtual tours.
Livepano enables to remap one or several videos on a spherical panorama. The way the remapping is done depends on the way the stitching is done.
Autopano Pro and Autopano Giga software have their own camera/lens model and Livepano uses it to correctly remap the video onto the panorama. It is a mathematical modelization of the sensor/lens couple, proper to Autopano. This is why the stitching of the panorama has to be done with either Autopano Pro 3 or Autopano Giga 3. Other mathematical modelizations like the ones of Adobe or Panotools will not work.
Thus, stitching the spherical panorama in Autopano Pro 3 or Autopano Giga 3 guarantees a proper integration of Livepano videos in your virtual tours.
You need Panotour Pro 2 because Livepano is an addon that runs within this application. When you activate your Livepano licence in Panotour Pro 2, you have access to the Livepano wizard which guides you through the video incorporation and the blending process.
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