One affair I ’ve enjoyed most about the exhibition reporting here at Macworld.com is something thatMacworldeditors were n’t all that involved in farm . It ’s ourExpo photo chemical group at Flickrwhere Expo attendees could post whatever photos of the show they need to — and often did . There ’s nothing like attending an Expo in somebody , but if you could n’t be in San Francisco last week , the 643 ( and counting ) photos from your comrade Macworld.com readers could at least give you a flavor for what the show was like in a way that mere articles could not .
Besides , we finally get an answer to the question that has dogged mankind since the sunrise of time : just how manyphotosofaniPhoneencasedinglasscan be contain in one week ?
The solution : notnearlyenough .
As outstanding as the Expo photos at Flickr are — and again , thanks to everyone who put up — they do n’t have the depth , scope , and pure , jaw - dribble detail of 360 - degree panoramic shots of the show floor . For that , you should turn to thework of Val T. Hoang and Landis Bennett , a pair of member of IVRPA . That ’ theInternational VR Photography Association , a group for digital photo pros who make interactive , immersive range .
Want to know what it ’s like entering Moscone Center ’s North Hall?Now you’re able to , without ever setting base in San Francisco . Or how about theview from Apple ’s cubicle during an iPhone presentationora demonstration at the Hewlett - Packard booth ? It ’s all there in 360 - degree item .
The work of Hoang and Bennett is hosted atPanoramas.dk , a vane land site created by Danish photographer Hans Nyberg , who use it to promote VR photography . Nyberg got interested in VR photography in 2002 — he credits aMacworldnews clause for piquing his interest group — and has since published panoramas onworldwide New Year ’s Eve celebrationsandthe Apollo synodic month landings . Broadly speaking , VR lensman like Nyberg and his cohorts apply a stock digital SLR photographic camera and a fisheye lens for action panoramas ; they stitch the prototype together usingPTgui , PTMac , or in some vitrine , Stitcher . ( Nyberg list review and tutorials forpanorama - creation softwareon his site . )
Whether you ’re a photographer yourself or just interested in another view of Expo , the panorama shot at last week ’s show are certainly deserving a flavour .
