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Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)

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Mar 5, 2014, 9:34:31 AM3/5/14
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They have a very high potential to make a revolution in the Virtual Reality and the way its done. Maybe panoramas will be obsolete.

They are offering 200 kits to be distributed to professional developers around the world at the end of march. They can only give it to companies.

Maybe someone would like to build an app that could build a virtual tour of an environment. This could be richer than a 360 picture :)

At the application form they incentive you to publish your code using an apache license.

Martin? :)

Cheers,

Jeffrey Martin

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Mar 5, 2014, 9:39:35 AM3/5/14
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vote it up on hacker news, where the best discussions usually are happening ;)



Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)

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Mar 5, 2014, 10:15:28 AM3/5/14
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It looks more than complimentary in many senses for me. It looks like it can give the possibility to navigate remotely in one environment. They haven't shown this, but it looks perfectly possible to add this possibility. An idea would be take the pictures of the place as it maps the 3D, so you could put picture quality textures to the objects and then allow a user to navigate on it. Besides the possibility that the panoramas give, it could also allow the change of the point of view, so it looks more than complimentary in this sense.

I remember of using VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) in the middle of the 90's. I've always wanted to use real pictures as object textures. And the portability was awesome, one could navigate in a simple browser. Don't know if it still exists or something similar.

Probably this could be an idea to be submitted. I am a developer, but haven't even had time to contribute to hugin... I really don't have time to dedicate to this, and also don't have a company. I work in a big oil company, but can't purpose an idea through them. Thought that maybe you as a company could purpose something. Maybe kolor or Klaus from krpano could, but this way probably there wouldn't be an opensource version :)

Cheers,



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