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My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
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THIS MADE EXPLORE AT #166 - 14 MAY 2007 ☺ many thanks everybody!! ☺
..this is my first go at trying to be "good" at this hehe so bee kind ;-) but no seriously I could do with your constructive criticism..is this in focus right? I know it won't be perfect but atleast it's a start :) looks very cool in large - see 'Bee Happy!' On Black
Duck at Alleppi District - Kerala, India.
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Explored! December 26, 2009 #279
Shot today with Julie for a second time. Definitely got some sweet shots :) I was stoked.
ab800 into 47" octabox camera right
fired with pocketwizards
vagabond II
You might wonder why there is so many pictures of that bald guy today in the Interestingness. This is an initiative of the flickr@paris group : getting as many photos of the same item in Explore on the day as possible. The item being their beloved and megalomaniac leader : philippe leroyer (who actually wrote this little text).
If you want to participate in that initiative, just comment and fave this picture (and the other ones that you'll find).
Let's see how far we can go here !
3 february, # 145 on Explore.
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press - F - if you like it :)
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I am in my 30s now.
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1. Sunny moments of life...., 2. Heavens above..., 3. Up close, 4. Hard at work..., 5. Treasure hunt, 6. Buzz, 7. I am sorry, 8. Laws of attraction,
9. The unexpected guest..., 10. Over the hedge, 11. Bison mother, 12. Job hopping..., 13. Perfect landing, 14. Give thy light...., 15. I am not scary...., 16. Watch your steps...,
17. Street Puppies, 18. Lost, 19. Lets grow together..., 20. Busy boy..., 21. Colors, 22. So the butterflies..., 23. Monkey business, 24. Weed,
25. Guess the name of this insect !!, 26. Butterfly, 27. After impact, 28. Deekshabhoomi Nagpur, 29. Sunset, 30. Full moon - Panasonic Lumix FZ 28
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Taken out at sea on USS STOUT DDG 55
SIGMA 8-16mm Pentax K-30
Ship was rocking bad when this was taken.
Being able to see the beautiful sky some what relieves me of stress.
Top Position 21#
Thank you so Much Every one , I love you All =) Another Front page Explore , ;)
Today is my Lucky Day ;)
Thanks a lot =)
Baracoa is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in August 15 of 1511. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba and was its first capital (the basis for its nickname Ciudad Primada, "First City").
Baracoa is located on the spot where Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage. It is thought that the name stems from the indigenous Arauaca language word meaning "the presence of the sea."
Baracoa lies on the Bay of Honey (Bahía de Miel) and is surrounded by a wide mountain range (including the Sierra del Purial), which causes it to be quite isolated, apart from a single mountain road built in the 1960s.
The original inhabitants of the island were Taíno. They were eradicated by the Spanish all over Cuba except here and this is the only place where descendants still live. A local hero is Hatuey, who fled from the Spanish in Hispaniola and raised a Taíno army to fight the Spanish in Cuba. According to the story Hatuey was betrayed by a member of his group and sentenced to burn at the stake. It is said that just before he died a Catholic priest tried to convert him so he would attain salvation; Hatuey asked the priest if Heaven was the place where the dead Spanish go. When he received an answer in the affirmative he told the priest that he'd rather go to Hell.
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba in a place he named Porto Santo. It is generally assumed from his description that this was Baracoa, although there are also claims it was Gibara. But Columbus also described a nearby table mountain, which is almost certainly nearby El Yunque. He wrote in his logbook ... the most beautiful place in the world ...I heard the birds sing that they will never ever leave this place....
The remote location at the eastern end of the Cuban island has kept the influence of mass tourism quite low, despite the idyllic location. Baracoa can be reached by bus from Santiago de Cuba (4 hours) or by plane from Havana (2 hours).
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It took us some time to reach the outpost of Baracoa that is located in the far east of Cuba. It's a different world than rest of the island: less crowded, vibrant, with tropical forest and magnificent scenery around. Maybe not that attractive at the first sight, however far much more magical after a deeper exploration.
Yumurí Canyon is a lush, tropical gorge and an unexpectedly impressive sight to say the least, with walls at points measuring nearly 200 m from the canyon floor. Its eponymous river, dotted with deep natural swimming pools, is neither deep nor particularly fast flowing, making it ideal for exploring the near-complete seclusion of eastern Cuba either via rowboat or on foot.
Explore #339 on 10/31/11.
This is little Fern Spring along the road into Yosemite Valley. Such a tiny little spring, but so beautiful surrounded by all the fall leaves and moss covered rocks. I stopped several times to photograph this spot. I thought this shot gave the best perspective.
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Pilot vessel.
April 2016, River Elbe, Germany.
This type of vessel has a hull shape designated as a SWASH (Small Waterplane Area Single Hull) with a torpedo-shaped float located centrally underneath the hull. The boat’s propulsion system is also located in this tube.
Built in 2014 by Abeking and Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany (6494).
Unknown tonnages.
Vessel has a 20.42m monohull, SWASH-design, with two trimaran-type stabilising outriggers.
12.3m wide, and a 3.1m depth.
Carries up to eight service personnel and a crew of two.
Best position, Explore (Interestingness), 26/08/2011 (#406)
Sé do Porto & Porto - Portugal
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Thoughtfully;
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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14 of eagle1effi's photos have been in Explore:
about 400 of eagle1effi's photos
since 2007
2. Wetten daß das innen auch schief läuft., 3. Just in time, 4. Der heiße Planet ( STERN), 5. 22 mm Sunset scenery, 6. Ankunft in Dresden, city. Frauenkirche, 7. Like a lost place, 8. Schönes Wochenende,
9. Sunset: Excellent image! .... faved by Explore algorithm, 10. First Tulip 2022. On Explore now., 11. 2730mm Extra Zoom handheld, 12. Verstehen - Grenzen sind relativ - Diese Eiche und der Fussballplatz gehören zusammen, 13. Sunset Series Canon Powershot SX70 HS DS IS handheld, 14. A lot of traffic in the air
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Explored: 14 June 2007 #464 Thank you
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The Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps), sometimes called the Flying Sugar, is a small gliding possum native to eastern and northern mainland Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and introduced to Tasmania.
Canon EOS Kiss Digital X
Lakeside Tropical Bank Holiday Weekend
Shropshire England UK
No, these are not my photos. I popped into Explore yesterday for some inspiration and benchmarks to guide me what is considered 'interesting' or generally, good photography - and this is what I found. These are shots from the first 3 pages I browsed (I didn't have to dig deep to catch the trend). The esteemed editorial team of Flickr (or what many believe is their super-intelligent computer algorithm) shows us the way to go. This is creative, original, artistically and technically exemplary and we should all learn: to be among the very best, you need to capture lo-fi images of Asian teenagers, or higher quality photos of... puppies and kittens. Occasionally, the unopened box of your new gadget is also top-class art. Lesson learned - I'm now out to capture my next masterpiece!
N.B. All copyright of the esteemed authors is totally respected and their works have been reproduced only once within Flickr for educational purposes and to spread the word how good they are. No changes have been made to any of the originals other than reducing size to fit into the space (and to prevent piracy by malicious art thieves). No money has been made in the process, but if any (even one) of the copyright owners asks me, I will remove the entire collage.
Uodate: Proof that it's not a machine algorithm but a human editorial crew (Yahoo / Flickr employees or external hackers, doesn't matter) - and they have a sense of humour! THIS composite image WAS in Explore for a while on the day I uploaded it - now, that's what I call sarcasm! :) ))