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Nicolas Burtey

11-30-2007, 03:09 PM

jaaaab

11-30-2007, 03:19 PM

Hehe, that's sounds and look like real-tv!

It's really well done.

The only thing is that it's not obvious that we have to click on the banner at the bottom to get into panoramas.

Bravo!

zleifr

12-01-2007, 12:42 AM

Very nice!

Aifos

12-02-2007, 03:47 AM

Hey!
thatґs nice!
the sounds are well used!
sometimes the spots for changing the pano are a little bit confusing...
and the fullscreen button is small (for me)...

i like the sensation of watching diferent times on the same pano... like the one in the bedroom, with the little girl playing arround...

congrats! great work!

Scott Witte

12-03-2007, 06:09 PM

Nicolas,

This is a remarkable project. Talk about environmental portraiture, you have amply demonstrated how VR can be a powerful medium for conveying so much more of the totality than simply still images. (Still vs VR = different, not better, of course.)

I like seeing multiple appearances of the people in many panos, using different viewpoints to convey different variations of their interaction with their environment. The sound, even if I can't understand what is being said, is a very strong addition to the immersive experience.

If I may quibble, I agree that the navigation is a little confusing. Maybe turning the map's spots into hotspots possibly with a image of the selection when you mouse over each and letting you click to select the city would be more obvious and customary.

The hotspots in the panos mostly don't relate to the next pano's location except maybe inside/outside. More often than not they just clutter the image, IMO. At the same time they are sometimes hard to find when not in full screen mode. Perhaps previous and next buttons at the bottom would serve better, especially allowing an easy return to previous panos in the tour without exiting full screen.

Since you provide a very direct path through each tour you might consider preloading your panos. The next can be downloading while viewing the current one. Then loading the next pano would be a very smooth experience.

Finally, this is a significant effort on your part which I gather didn't have a client paying for it. Have you given thought to how you might turn this into money? Is it simply a portfolio piece at this time?

Thanks for sharing. It really is a remarkable experience!

Nicolas Burtey

12-13-2007, 01:17 PM

Thank you for your answer !

I know that the hospots are not always at the good place.
At the beginning, it was not supposed to be hotspots to travel in the space but to the times :
when you click, you go to the next moment of the day.

So I didn't place the hotspot very carefully because it was not suppose to link different space. And this is why there is only one hotspot for a VR : if I had placed two hotspot, the user could not know it this hotspot is going to past or future. (well, after reflection, it's possible with different type of hopspots, like square and circle, with different colors)

But I think that most of people don't understand this because
1) if the user know the VR images, he is used to spatial hotspots
2) if the user don't know the VR images, most of the times, he just don't see the hotspots and don't use it

For the future, I would like to make a project with directional sounds. I would really love it, but right now, there is no tools to do it easily. By the way, this is a quite disapointing things : to have a lot of idea, but no tools for doing it !

Anyway, thank you again for your comments !

Nicolas B.

Trausti Hraunfjord

12-13-2007, 08:33 PM

Hi,

I would like to share my first (large) project of panoramas.

There is 48 panoramas. 6 panoramas in 8 different cities/flat in France

There is sound with the panorama, so turn your speaker on !

link here : http://www.nicolasburtey.net/esh/home.html

Comments are welcome !
Thanks,

Nicolas B.

Thanks for the invite, but for some reason I can't access the page through normal means. I was able to get to it through a proxy server, seeing only this:

"A l'aurore, il se traоne sur quatre pieds; а midi, il marche sur deux; le soir, c'est sur trois qu'il avance en chancelant. Quel est cet кtre, jamais le mкme et cependant jamais plusieurs, mais un seul?"

"Quel serait cet кtre, sinon l'Homme?"

Panorama(s) retrace l’йvolution de la journйe de huit foyers situйs aux quatre coins de France.

A travers une sйrie d’images panoramiques а 360°, le projet condense, le temps d’une journйe, l’histoire de 80 ans d’innovations architecturales dans lesquelles viennent s’йcrire les histoires individuelles et collectives de leurs habitants.

.... so it looks as if my IP range is blocked off on your server. If you have had problems from this part of the world (Peru) and blocked it from access in your domain control panel, you could clear my IP individually since it is static.

Nicolas Burtey

12-14-2007, 04:20 PM

Hello Tuddi

It's wierd.

I can't access (or I don't know to do it) the filter to allow / forbid some IP : it's not my server

Have you try just http://www.nicolasburtey.net/ ?
Does-it work ? Maybe with another browser ?

Trausti Hraunfjord

12-14-2007, 04:43 PM

Thanks for checking. I did try the basic address and the pano project link with crazybrowser, IE and Firefox... on this puter and my laptop... resulting in the same thing ("Cannot find server" on the IE based browsers and "The connection has timed out" in Firefox).

Strange.

Scott Witte

12-14-2007, 05:22 PM

I did try the basic address and the pano project link... ("Cannot find server" on the IE based browsers and "The connection has timed out" in Firefox).

Tuddi

Try a tracert to Nicolas' IP address, 213.186.33.19. That may tell you where it gets blocked. If you can ping successfully (assuming you aren't too tightly firewalled) it probably points to a DNS issue. You might search for another DNS to use and see if that gets you through.

The direct IP address won't get you access to the site since Nicolas appears to be on a shared server. That hosting company may have blocked a range of addresses and Nicolas may have no access to changing that short of asking the hosting service.

Trausti Hraunfjord

12-14-2007, 06:12 PM

Pinging from dnsstuff.com resulted in no problems at all, but when trying to ping from my puter's Command Prompt, it times out. So the problem is on my side :( My router does not have any filters or blockades activated, so it's probably my ISP ? ...

cheathamlane

12-15-2007, 03:23 PM