Archive for December, 2007

Some Things Are Different Here

December 5th, 2007

I want to point out a few differences here in PFRE’s new home. As I said before the main motivation for the move was added flexibility. There were a lot of things I couldn’t do back at the old blog… like the Feedburner subscription sign up box on the upper right side. With the blog […]

Turning Real Estate Still Photos Into Ken Burns Style “Video”

December 4th, 2007

I find it interesting that tourfactory.com is promoting a new service of creating “video” from still shots you send them. An example of one of their new video tours is at the bottom of this page. Yes, I guess this could technically be called video because you could post it on youtube. But more […]

360VR Flash Player Implementations Compared to QuickTime

December 2nd, 2007

Several people have asked about which of the 3 major Flash player implementations are the “best”. Since it’s been my experience that the image displayed and the size of the equirectangular image used plays a big part in how the image looks I thought it would be instructive to do a comparison of the different […]

AerialPan Imaging - 360VR And Video From RC Helicopter

December 1st, 2007

Back in the spring of 2006 I did a post on the Aerial photography work that Tabb Firchau does. I also did a post on one of the first 360VR shots that Tabb had done from his RC Helicopter. Well Tabb has taken his aerial 360VR to the next level. His business is now called […]