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Panoramas in Google Earth by 360 degree
D' Technology Weblog —
... a new layer in the Google Earth Gallery, showing several thousand panoramic views provided by 360cities.net. This layer contains exciting 360 degree panoramas from a variety of great photographs taken all over the world! If you’re an enthusiast taking panoramic views? It’s not difficult to add your images as ...
360 Cities Brings Stunning Spherical Panoramas To Google Earth
TechCrunch —
... A collection of the panoramas just became visible automatically to every user of the free 3D earth visualization software, and the rest of the 360cities database, which is nearly 10,000 spherical images strong, has been added to the Gallery in Google Earth as well. Some of these are breathtakingly beautiful: check out this shot of the Berlin holocaust memorial, or the inside of this ...
360 Cities Panoramas in Google Earth [3D]
Lifehacker —
[image] Prague-based virtual panorama company 360 Cities is offering its entire collection of nearly 10,000 spherical images on Google Earth. Head to the "Featured Preview" layer in the 3D tool to enable 360 Cities, then just click to scan around and gawk. [ via ]
Stupendous coral reef panorama
Boing Boing —
Amadee Coral Reef New Caledonia in New Caledonia
Jeffrey sez, "Of all the ~15 thousand spherical panoramas on 360cities.net so far, this one nearly made me cry, it is so breathtaking.
This is why 360 / spherical / qtvr photography exists. Images like this remind me why I became a 360 obsessed maniac 7 years ago.
Yes, the CERN panoramas were nice. But I dare say, this one is even better...
Photo is by Richard Chesher, one of our members.
You ...
PragueCrunch Round-Up: Checking In With The Czechs
TechCrunch —
... , an American who has been living there for the past 16 years and is extremely well connected with the local community. When we weren’t enjoying the great weather on the terrace, the awesome local beer or cuisine, we engaged in a lot of conversations with Czech entrepreneurs and learned a lot, so a big thank you to Jack for hosting the event. Also big kudos to all sponsors for making it possible! For pictures, check out the tag ...
Panorama of yogi feet in the air
Boing Boing —
Jeffrey sez, "We're getting more and more excellent panoramic photographers uploading their spherical panoramas to our site - but this one made me splutter with delight. Hundreds, or maybe thousands, of yogis with their feet sticking up in the air, as far as you can see, while the sun rises in the distance. I feel more relaxed just looking at it....
If you right-click on the panorama and then select 'little planet' you get a yoga planet of legs...."
Umag ...
Panoramic view from a tongue
Boing Boing —
Dentistry in depth in Barcelona
Jeffrey sez, "Nico Roig created this fantastic visualization of a mouth at the dentist. The image of the dentist is a real photo, and the mouth is Nico's creation. If you ever wanted to see what it's like sitting on the tongue like a piece of candy... here you go."
Dentistry in depth
(Thanks, Jeffrey!) ...
