Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Junji Ikeda posted some information on some tools he has developed for fisheye lens photos and cubic VRs. The tools include Fish4CubeX which can make a cubic VR from 2, 3 or 4 fisheye photos; Hotspot maker for Cube, FishFishFish, LaFish MotionVR player, and FishHexCubeX, whiuch can make a cubic VR from 4, 5 or 6 fisheye photos. He has also posted some example VRs made with these tools. Unless it's described in the Japanese language parts of those web pages, no word yet on whether using the two fisheye-to-VR tools in the US would violate IPIX's patent, but I'd guess they would. Junji says the FishHexCubeX tool will be available in early 2003. 5:07:21 PM

News of some potentially useful utilities has crossed my desk recently: Photologist is a picture management tool for OS X. Some aspects sound like iPhoto, while some features are unique. Secondly Wildform's Flix enables conversion of QuickTime movies to Flash animations, and runs on Windows or Mac. Last but not least, MovieHouse allows you to organize and play movies on OS X. An iTunes for video? 7:00:06 AM

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