Grâce à Jens Remus, il est désormais facile d’intégrer un panorama au format KRPano dans un article Wordpress Explications simples et rapides:

• Avoir son Wordpress à jour, très important pour éviter tout accident au niveau de la sécurité de votre blog. Version à ce jour de wordpress: 2.9.2
• Installer le plugin WP krpano disponible sur cette page sur le site de Wordpress. Il vous suffit de télécharger le zip, de le décompresser et d’uploader le dossier obtenu dans le dossier plugins de votre installation de Wordpress.
• Activer le plugin dans la rubrique Extensions de votre interface d’administration de Wordpress. Si tous vos panoramas utilisent un seul exemplaire du player flash sur votre site, vous pouvez indiquer l’url à cet endroit là sous la forme par exemple: http://www.skivr.com/temp/pano.swf et indiquer également une largeur et une hauteur par défaut qui vont bien pour votre blog. Quelques essais peuvent être nécessaires pour trouver la bonne taille en fonction de l’organisation du thème de votre blog. Ces réglages peuvent tous être écrasés dans chaque billet où vous insérerez un panorama
• Il vous suffit alors de poster un nouvel article dans votre blog Wordpress et d’y intégrer le code suivant (onglet HTML) avec la syntaxe suivante:[ krpano xml="http://www.skivr.com/panos/2009-03-13-7-laux-retenue-collinaire-eterlou/krpano.xml" krpano="http://www.skivr.com/panos/krpano.swf" width=460 height=280]. Le paramètre xml vous permet d’indiquer où se trouve le XML de votre panorama (paramètre obligatoire et minimum), le paramètre krpano vous permet d’indiquer où se trouve le fichier flash de krpano (optionnel, si le fichier krpano est dans le même répertoire que le xml ou si vous avez déja indiqué ce paramètre dans les réglages du plugin), les paramètres width et height (optionnels eux-aussi) vous permettent de spécifier une largeur et une hauteur en pixels pour l’affichage de votre panorama .
• C’est fini, une fois publié votre article sur votre blog, votre panorama doit apparaitre à l’intérieur du post !

ATTENTION: pour le moment le plugin ne fonctionne pas avec des panoramas mis au format flash par AutoPano Tour, l’auteur du plugin investit sur ce problème actuellement ! Je mettrais à jour cet article en fonction des avancements et résultats sur ce problème !

Mise à jour du 5 Juin 2010: Pour arriver à faire fonctionner le plugin avec des visites virtuelles faites par AutoPano Tour, voici la procédure à suivre:

• remplacer le fichier swf généré par AutoPano tour par le swf standard de krpano et le renommer du même nom que votre projet, ajouter également dans le même dossier le fichier de licence krpano en le renommant également au nom du projet
• éditer chacun des fichiers xml générés par AutoPano tour pour compléter tous les liens se trouvant dans les tags “url” par l’URL complète ! Par exemple ./ devient http://visites.skivr.com/7_Laux/ et ainsi de suite
• attention si vous avez ajouté de l’audio dans votre visite virtuelle faite avec AutoPano Tour, vous devrez également ajouter à vos fichiers en ligne le fichier “soundinterface.swf” présent dans l’archive de KRPano et modifier les liens correspondants dans les fichiers XML (Mise à jour du 20 Août 2010, sur une question de Manuel P. )
• Voilà c’est fini, ça doit marcher tout seul maintenant

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Not to change, Adobe shows us nice inside developments without making them avalaible for developers and also then for public Very nice demo of their Air technology on iPad with panorama player on it:

Will it be avalaible for everyone someday ?? difficult to know all the more with open war between Apple and Adobe During that time, considering embargo from Apple against Adobe for its products, I’ll continue to refuse to buy iPad

Here we are soon Tucson 2010 is nearly ready to start, just two weeks now from big launch ! It promises to be an exciting event.
All major manufacturers and software developpers will be part of event. All main photographs and people that makes panorama world daily will be there. So it’s definitively the place to be mid-april.
SkiVR will announce, together with a partner, new product that’ll interest a lot of people, I’m confident with. Product to be announced Tucson’s opening day, april 9th.
I’ll be there to discover new products to bring you back in France, and also new opportunities. Stay tuned here as I’ll post daily a résumé of events of the day, pictures, descriptions of products….
Special price for Hotel has been extended so enjoy it by clicking here and see you there in few days.

With new year, two main panoramic photographers associations will organise their meetings. For that one, IVRPA and IAPP will join efforts to keep things simple and most efficient for everyone to enjoy.
It’ll take place in Tucson, AZ: April 14th till April 18th.
People interested to participate should visit dedicated website (Tucson 2010) that keep in one place all needed infos about conferences, demonstrations, etc… Go ahead for a visit, and for people present, they’ll be able to discover new Nodal Ninja products
I’ll be there during the whole event, and I’ll be happy to show you also a new product released by SkIVR, and one of its long time partner. I’m sure you’ll enjoy that new product

For existing owners of AutoPano Pro, it’s now easy to move to AutoPano Giga just for the price of an update avalaible now in store. Additional features included in AutoPano Giga and companion included with, AutoPano Tour:

-> support of motorized heads and high-definition panoramas (gigapixels)
-> HDR and fusion support
-> templates for automated detection and stitching
-> workspace saving

-> build complete virtual tours with AutoPano Tour including hotspots, interactive maps, videos, pictures, links…
-> multi-resolution management in tours
-> possibility to edit manually tours for more customisation

If you wish to build virtual tours and enjoy all power of AutoPano Tour, it’s strongly advised to buy in same time KRPano licence offered at special price, to fully unleash power of AutoPano Tour. Google Maps plugin allows you to integrate Google Maps in your tours. That plugin is not yet managed by current version of AutoPano Tour, so you’ll need to integrate it “manually” in your visits generated by AutoPano Tour.

To help decisions for future developments of products, Kolor, editor of AutoPano Pro, Giga & Tour, has published an online survey to know more about uses and expectations from its customers. If you use their products, feel free to take few minutes to fill in. Survey is avalaible here in english: Click here to access the survey

Nodal Ninja releases two new products that week, well one that is brand new, the other one is just a new possibility

• Turntable TURN-10, to shot objects and build virtual view in 3D, with softwares such as Modelweaver from Easypano. You can get a very good price on both if you buy them together with that pack avalaible in store.
• Covers for turntable. They are sold as a set of four different colors: black, blue, white and red.
• R1 without rotator. Requested by numerous users, it’s now avalaible. It allows you to use R1 head directly on monopod or pole (just don’t forget to order with it the pole adapter).

All these products are in stock right now.

Kolor, famous editor of AutoPano Pro, AutoPano Giga, and AutoPano Tour softwares, does it again that year with a new Panobook, 2010 edition. Panoramas have been selected by jury and now layout is currently being done. A preview is avalaible for view on Kolor blog on that page. Big launch planned for mid-november if everything is going fine

Till now two solutions to index panoramas you publish on Internet:

• Classic search engine such as Google, Yahoo and others, but your panoramas are floating around a bunch of other stuffs, especially if you publish panoramas of famous places, so not very good to get a good exposition

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Cette semaine a amené quelques nouveautés discrètes chez Nodal Ninja avec les produits suivants:

• Tout d’abord Nodal Ninja a mis en ligne son tout nouveau site web, remis aux couleurs du jour, avec une ergonomie soignée et plein d’informations techniques mieux regroupés. Je mettrais en ligne ici dans les prochaines semaines certaines ressources du site anglais traduit en français.
• un niveau à bulle (U-R-L) qui se fixe à l’extérieur du positionneur R-D4, utile surtout dans la configuration Ultimate R1/R10 où parfois l’installation de l’anneau avec l’objectif et l’appareil photo rend l’utilisation du niveau intégré à la rotule difficile. Cet article est proposé en option sur les rotules R1/R10, et en accessoire séparé également. 17€ HT à l’unité ou 14€ avec une rotule.

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SkiVR now offers special webhosting packages, specifically designed for photographs needs:
-> Much space (10 or 20Go) to store numerous high-definition pictures and/or high-definition panoramas
-> Unlimited bandwith
-> Unlimited emails and databases (so long it contains in space of your hosting)
-> Easy FTP access
-> Plesk interface to manage easily all your hosting at your wish
-> Takes in charge registration of your domain name, or transfer of your existing ones
-> Best for the end: if you order a webhosting service in same time with anything else in the shop, you’ll get 10% off of webhosting invoice (automatically calculated in your shopping cart !).
All details are avalaible here

SkiVR is now reseller of the fantastic Flash Player for panorama on Internet: KRPano. Developed by an austrian, that famous software is worldwide recognised for quality, features and flexibility. We offer is as standalone product with full features and tools licence included so you get all you need to work efficiently.
Every panoramas displayed on SkiVR website use KRPano
As always we offer a great price on it if you buy it in bundle with other products from the shop, and it’s a great value if you use it with AutoPano Tour (included in AutoPano Giga) as it allows you to benefit all features of it easily in graphic mode to build quickly and easily some nice virtual visits. All informations are avalaible on that page.

SkiVR now uses Twitter to get you updated about new articles, updates on products in store…. Just visit http://twitter.com/skivr and follow us You can create your own Twitter account, it’s free and very handy !

That’s it finally AutoPano Pro and AutoPano Tour 2.0 are finally avalaible. Expected first in March, Kolor got some delay for release of these new builds but they are worth the value and the wait
New main features of AutoPano:
-> Use of GPU (Processor of graphic card of computer for quicker rendering).
-> Use of all processors of computer (for quicker rendering and stitching).
-> Support motorised pano heads such as Gigapan for gigapixels panoramas.
-> New Mercator projection and automatic selection of best projection for each panorama.
-> Flash output avalaible.
-> Manage fisheye lens.

AutoPano Giga includes an additional component named AutoPano Tour. It allows you to build very easily a virtual tour with your panoramas and export them in Flash format for immediate and easy online publishing. It uses powerful and famous Krpano tools.

AutoPano Pro and Giga are already avalaible in the shop. AutoPano pro is avalaible at 99€ without VAT, and AutoPano Giga (including AutoPano Tour) is avalaible at special price at 179€ without VAT.

I have been invited few days ago to visit Kolor company, based at Challes les Eaux in Savoie. Kolor is a little family company, and is responsible for development and sales of major panorama stitching software.

I speak about AutoPano pro, avalaible on the three main platforms: Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, both in 32 and 64 bits. That software is based on very powerful detection algorithm SIFT which is the most advanced avalaible for now. (more…)

360Cities, famous panorama website, is now fully integrated with Google Earth. From now, new version of Google Earth (4.2) avalaible for Mac, Windows et Linux, offers direct link for view of 360Cities panoramas.
Once Google Earth installed all you need is tick both choices as shown below on screen capture.

From that time everywhere 360Cities panoramas are avalaible are indicated with a little red bubble 360Cities, and just one click on it will put you in panorama on site as if you were physically present. Really fun and you have to test it !
Businesses that wish to show off their services such as restaurant, coffee, hotel or touristic places are able to get a great presence on Internet. Feel free to contact us as reseller of 360Cities services if you wish more details.