Discover Monaco 45 Gigapixels presented by Guillaume Roumestan through Gigapixel Tour (France’s leading website in gigapixel photography creation, managed by G. Roumestan) and Kolor company (the global leader in image-stitching technologies).

To establish this panorama, 2800 photos were taken from the forefront of rock called the “tête de chien” in Turbie, above Monaco with a height of 550 meters and stitched with Autopano Giga Software. The panorama extends, from right to left, from the Fontvieille district of Monaco to Bordighera, Italian city. Are visible Beausoleil, Roquebrune Cap Martin, Ventimiglia. The shot was made during Monaco Grand Prix which is held annually in the streets of Monaco. It is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious and difficult automobile races in the world.

Guillaume Roumestan added 10 easter eggs into the picture. To be honnest we had some trouble to find them! We just found a Star Wars spacecraft… If you also have some trouble to find them, just ask Guillaume about the easter eggs’ location.

You can also discover other projects led by Guillaume Roumestan such as: Cannes 65 Gigapixels, Marseille 50 Gigapixels & Barcelona 16 Gigapixels

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Let’s have a look behind the scenes:

Hardware:
- Motorized head: Gigapan Epic Pro
- Camera: Nikon D5200 ( APS-C 24 Mpxl)
- Lens: Sigma 50-500mm f4,5-6,3 DG APO OS

Software:
- Autopano Giga
- Panotour Pro
- Photoshop

Shooting:
Photos: 2800
Focal: 420 mm
Speed: 1/1600 sec
Aperture: ff9
Iso: 500

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On its website, Blick.ch, publishes the first public virtual tour made with Panotour Pro version 2. Climb aboard, fasten your seatbelt and experience the PC-7 TEAM, an aerobatics team of the Swiss Air Force, over Switzerland arround 400 kph!

Dominik Baumann, professional photographer and Panotour Pro version 2 beta tester, took the shot & made the virtual tour. If you want to read his feelings about the flight, just visit Blick.ch.

Read more:

• Kolor announce Panotour Pro 2
• An exclusive 360° view of the high drama of an operation on a six-month-old baby by Dominik Baumann

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New features of Panotour Pro 2.0

Quality

Panotour Pro is based on the latest technologies to offer top quality. Appart from the Flash and HTML5 generation, Panotour Pro 2.0 will offer powerful widgets to let you integrate a variety of features and custom objects into your virtual tours.

Easy

Not only visually appealing, Panotour Pro 2.0 has been designed following the users’ requests to offer a nice interface. You can now create incredible virtual tours that include advanced features, with no need of programming skills.

Everywhere

Everybody wants virtual tours to run well on any device. Panotour Pro 2.0 offers the ability to display your tours everywhere thanks to the HTML5 format: computers, tablets, smartphones.

More details on the features: have a look at the slides of Alexandre Jenny’s conference detailing Panotour Pro 2.0:

Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 pricing

The new version is a huge step forward in the field of virtual tour creation. The price of the Pro version will slightly increase, whereas the price of the standard version will remain stable.

• Panotour 2.0: €99
• Panotour Pro 2.0: €399

Kolor also presented Livepano, which will enable to embed video frames on the place of a photo in the virtual tour. This option will be sold €199.

Upgrade policy

Kolor is used to offer the next version from the time a first beta of the application is released. The first beta of Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 is expected for August, however we decided to offer the new version on all purchases made from July 1, 2013.

Therefore, Panotour Pro price will be €399 from July 1 and it will include Panotour Pro 2.0.

All clients that made a purchase earlier than July 1 will be offered a special upgrade price as follows:

• From Panotour 1.x to Panotour 2.0: €39
• From Panotour Pro 1.x to Panotour Pro 2.0: €199, which is a third of the old price (our standard upgrade price) + the price difference between version 1 and version 2.

When will Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 be released?

We cannot give a date for the final release yet. The first public beta should be available in August.

I heard there was a private beta program. How to become a private beta tester?

Please be aware that the application is still under development. It is buggy and not stable. However, if you would like to test it at your own risk, please apply to become a private beta tester by contacting us. Note that as we’re now focusing on the correction of bugs to release the final version rapidly, no technical support will be offered on this private beta. A delay of several days can occur to process your application. Thank you for your understanding, and see you soon for the final release!

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Autopano Video Pro lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

What is the difference between Autopano Video and Autopano Video Pro?

Autopano Video Pro uses GPU processing for faster rendering times. If you have time constraint you can use GPU rendering which is on average 10x faster than CPU rendering, depending on your configuration. Compatible with all graphics cards.

How fast is Autopano Video Pro GPU rendering?

Watch the video: My first 360° video with Autopano Video

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Autopano Video, the change log compared to beta 2

Main changes

This is the third beta version of Autopano Video, a generic video stitcher.

Autopano Video / Autopano Video Pro is the easiest way to stitch and create 360-degree immersive videos

Offer an incredible new experience to your clients or friends. Autopano Video is the new video-stitching software application developed by Kolor. It lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

We had 3 main goals when making these products

Quality first : The world’s best image-stitching technology is behind Autopano Video. Quality workflow, quality results. No limitation : We were always determined to bring you cross-platform support as well as cross-hardware support. And that, without any limit in the number of video stream sources nor in the output size. Affordable, accessible : Both in terms of usage and price, Autopano Video gives nearly everyone the chance to create amazing 360° videos.

Using Autopano Video during the beta stage

We want you to test it, fully, without any limit, even without watermark, for free. So we decided to let you use the full software for free until the end of June 2013 (with standard version only). Get a temporary license for free and remove to remove the watermark: http://www.kolor.com/360-video/autopano-video-360-video-stitcher.html.

We believe in our community and in our customers that have been supporting us since a long time now. The quality of a software application doesn’t only come from the quality of the developer ( come on, still a bit ), but from the quality of the communication between you and us.

For this piece of software too, we’ve opened a dedicated forum to let you discuss with us about the product. It is always at the same location: http://www.kolor.com/forum/. Go there to find support, report bugs, post results, etc.

Roadmap to the release

We expect that you’ll find bugs, for sure. And we already have some bugs opened in our database. Here’s a short list of what is still under work here.

• QuickTime codec support with Mac version in 64bits. We support QuickTime Codec in 32bits but not yet in 64bits.
• Mac version can be really slow when having source viewers activated. We advise you to enable them only if needed (untick the boxes “Seek on timeline update”).
• Render dialog box UI. We are not totally satisfied with the current layout. If you don’t understand how to use it, we’ll make some changes there.
• Autopano Video Pro only: GPU rendering is working great and super fast on Windows but not on Mac where graphics drivers are complicated to handle well.

Changelog compared to beta 2:

- 0002079: [UI] Error message when using nadir patching method
- 0002071: [I/O] Little planet aspect ratio lost
- 0002060: [Algorithms] GPU rendering, a green first frame can happen
- 0002065: [UI] Reference pano thumbnails
- 0002077: [Algorithms] Nadir patching in Gpu mode
- 0002058: [UI] Syncro crash when no audio track in the videos
- 0002061: [UI] Empty error dialogbox pops up at the end of a render

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During the International Panoramic Photgraphy Conference, occuring in Iceland, Alexandre Jenny (Kolor CEO), will give a talk Thursday, June 13 2013 introducing the next generation of virtual tours. Thanks to yellowBird, the talk will be available in 360° video live streaming.

The topic of the talk: “Virtual tours give content and interactivity to a website. What about going a step further and turning your virtual tours into authentic experiences? Kolor CEO Alexandre Jenny presents for the first time the next version of Panotour Pro, the reference software application to create stunning virtual tours without the need of programming skills. Discover the new concepts introduced in Panotour Pro 2.0 and the best ways to create virtual tours that everyone will remember“.

The conference will start at 2:30pm (Iceland local time). Pay attention to the time difference according to your country:

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Kolor launches today the 4th solution (out of 6) to create 360° video namely the hardware. Discover the equipment which will allow you to create your own 360-degree videos, a 360° mount (or rig) on which you can install several GoPro cameras. The team of Kolor tested and selected the following rigs. You can find the results of our tests and our opinion in this chart.

Above rigs have been tested by Kolor team. Read our opinion!

Kolor offers you the whole solutions, hardware and software, to create stunning 360° video. Thanks to Autopano Video the new 360° video stitching software, you can assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees (Autopano Pro or Autopano Giga are required to use Autopano Video properly).

Watch the video: My first 360° video with Autopano Video

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During Iceland 2013 panoramic photography conference organized by the IVRPA, CEO of Kolor Alexandre Jenny gave a talk  concerning the full workflow to create & share 360° videos. Here are the slides of his presentation.

Alexandre Jenny presents the full workflow to create & share 360° videos:

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June 12, 2013. Live from the IVRPA conference in Iceland — Alexandre Jenny, Kolor CEO, has just announced 2 new solutions in the framework of Kolor’s 360° Video Solutions.

Kolor Eyes Desktop (free)

You may already know the Kolor Eyes 360° video player for iPad? Here’s the desktop version that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. It is free and will be available for download in the coming days.
Learn more about Kolor Eyes Desktop

Kolor Eyes Hosting

Because creating 360° videos is not just about recording them or stitching them, Kolor Eyes Hosting offers a space in the cloud to let you easily publish and share 360° videos with the entire world.
Learn more about Kolor Eyes Hosting

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During the International Panoramic Photgraphy Conference, occuring in Iceland, Alexandre Jenny (Kolor CEO), will give a talk Wednesday, June 12 2013 introducing the full workflow to create & share 360° videos. Thanks to yellowBird, the talk will be available in 360° video live streaming.

The topic of the talk: “Creating 360° videos is not limited to shooting them or stitching them. Kolor CEO Alexandre Jenny presents during this conference all the solutions offered by Kolor to shoot, stitch, publish and share these 360° videos. This workflow is based on the latest products and technologies developed by Kolor and its partners: the different rigs available on the market, the new video-stitching software application Autopano Video and the latest publishing technologies based on the web standards. Some of the solutions shown during this conference are presented for the first time, in particular the solutions meant to publish 360° videos on different devices and share them with ease“.

The conference will start at 10:00am (Iceland local time). Pay attention to the time difference according to your country:

Alexandre Jenny will also give a talk Thursday, May 13 2013, about Panotour Pro 2 and the next generation of virtual tours. You can also follow the talk in 360° video live streaming. 

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Hopefully by the end of this month you should know, if your image(s) will be published in the Panobook 2013 and who will win the title of Kolor Best Panoramic Photographer of the Year…

During this phase of voting, we asked jury members about their feelings:

• “Voting for all those images takes time but how exciting it is! It will really be difficult to decide between the last images… A Cornelian dilemma!” said Nicolas Mériau.

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• “It’s absolutely stunning to see the quality of images submitted during the competition! Some of panoramas are absolutely perfect in composition, color handling, sharpness and stitching quality. The significant amount of panoramas done with HDR techniques is just awesome.” said Thomas Bredenfeld.

Thank you for your patience and once again, sincere congratulations to all who joined the contest!

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Have a look on all images submitted via the Panobook 2013 gallery.

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