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World Heritage Day - 18th April 2008
In celebration of World Heritage Day 2008, Immersive360 have created a Google Earth Virtual Tour of the Athens Acropolis using the recently introduced photooverlay function. With nearly 200 million users worldwide Google Earth is fast becoming a major information channel and offers a high level of interactivity. To access the tour download this KML file, first making sure you have Google Earth (4.2 or higher) installed. The file updates itself once installed so you will see all the new content that is scheduled to be added in the near future including more tours of the Athens Olympic sites and many locations around the UK.
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Immersive360 launch new website.
Finally we are please to launch our new website. We have made significant changes to our Brand Presenation with our updated logo, completely new website design and considerably more content. Our new PORTFOLIO section is particularly important as we now show all our panorama samples in QuickTime, Java and Flash enabling you to judge for yourself the merits of each technology and help you decide which best suits your needs. We have also introduced a new set of products including Time Lapse Video and our 'e' product range. See the homepage or details.
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New Technology Launch.
Immersive360 will shortly be formally launching it's latest new development PanoFlash. This new Adobe Flash based panorama player is set to revolutionize our product range and the VR industry as a whole. PanoFlash wasn't due to be formally launched until early next year but inital projects have proved so successful that we have put all our resourses into completing the version 1 development process in time to launch at the World Travel Market at Excel in London in November. We will be showcasing a complete suite of products based around our full screen panorama images and PanoFlash VR system. Full Press release will follow shortly.
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Immersive360 turns ecoWarrior
Revolutionary sustainable housing developer ecoTECH commissioned Immersive360 to document the construction of their Flagship Organics by ecoTECH house at the BRE Innovation Park as part of OFFSITE2007. Immersive360 created a complete media package including a High Definition DVD time-lapse movie of the house construction, which was completed in only 11 DAYS!!! We also create a complete internal Virtual Tour of the finished house for their website (which we also designed byus by the way!) and produced 2000 branded memory sticks ready loaded with the Time-Lapse Movie and Virtual Tour and details specifications of the house construction. The time lapse movie is also available to view on YouTube.
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Immersive360 trials Java based Pocket PC Virtual Tours.
Immersive360 is currently at the testing stage with new technology to enable us to port our Java Virtual Tours to portable Pocket PC devices. Ideal for sales teams to carry a complete VR tour of your Hotel, Conference Centre. School, Hospital, Sports Centre or any other location for on the spot sales presentation without having to carry around a laptop or need access to the internet. Currently the system will support pocket PC's running Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 2003SE and Windows Mobile 5 with ActiveSync.Watch this space for further developments.
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Aston Martin Showcase.
Immersive360 have created an immersive showcase experience for Aston Martin of their new V8 Vantage. With thanks to Hartwell House Hotel & Spa for hosting us for the day. See the very impressive interior 360 which shows the stunning quality of this very British Marque and the car in the shadow of Hartwell House. Take a complete 360 degree walk around the car in our on-location 3D object movie as well.
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Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP launches new BSG work programme.
The BSG's new work programme was launched at a reception on 18 September by Minister for Competitiveness Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, who used the occasion to tell stakeholders that he sees it as one of his 'highest personal priorities that we have a high performance telecommunications infrastructure in every part of the country, enabling us to compete successfully on a global basis.' You can read the Ministers speach and download the Press Release here.
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Immersive360 feels The Squeeze.
Specialist Property Marketing Agency Squeeze Design called in Immersive360 to create content for a CD-rom Presentation for Monks Cross Retail Park in York. We are very excited by this colaboration and look forward to more projects in the near future. CD-rom integration was only possible because of Immersive360's new FlashPano technology. Unique in the market, PanoFlash is the only Flash Panorama system that can be inegrated into a stand alone Flash presentation or existing Flash Webpage.
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John Cullen Lighting, second time around.
John Cullen Lighting have asked Immersive360 for the second year to produce a Virtual Tour of their Light House exhibition stand at the 2007 Daily Telegraph/House and Garden Fair. John Cullen Lighting's stand is always a significant feature at the show and understandably they wanted all that hard work to last more than a few days. Now the stand is imortalized and is available to view on their website in the Whats' New section along with their 2006 stand.
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Immersive360 appointed by the London Design Museum
The Design Museum's events team have commissioned Immersive360 to provide a unique Virtual Tour of their event facilities which focuses on the multi use aspects of the event spaces they offer. We developed a custom interface which shows the same space with different set-ups overlayed to seemlessly transition from one to the other. This is a new development only acheivable through our new PanoFlash technology and has already generated considerable interest from other clients.
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Immersive360 delivers it's largest project to date.
Capio Healthcare is one of the leading providers of independent hospital services in England, with a network of 22 acute hospitals and 10 NHS specialist treatment centres. Immersive360 were commissioned by Capio to create Virtual Tours using our latest FastStart™ Java technology of their entire property portfolio across the UK. The Virtual Tours are accessible to Capio's customers through their website and allow visitors to their website to see first hand the high standard of facilities available.
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Immersive360 Award Winners
Immersive360 were honoured on 9th November 2006 as winners of the Innovative Business of the Year 2006. Enterprise Enfield, The RSA Trust, Barclays Bank, The London Development Agency and other sponsors gathered for the awards ceremony along with Nicky Gavron ( Deputy Mayor of London) and Toney Dey (Mayor of Enfield). Immersive360 were selected against stiff competition for the Innovative Business Award and are very proud to have been selected. See our press release for more info.
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Immersive360 Signs New Deal with ICE Portal Inc
ICE Portal The US MultiMedia Hosting Platform for the Hotel and Tourism Industry has appointed Immersive360 as UK Suppliers for interactive eMarketing content for their UK and European operation which was Launched at WTM 2006 with a deal signed with Pegasus. Immersive360 will supply Full Screen VR Tours and Interactive Still imaging to ICE Portals Client base and are licenced resellers of the ICE Portal Subscription Service In the UK and Europe. More articles here...
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www.visitlondon.co.uk
Immersive360 are proud to annouce our strategic alliance with Visit London. We anticipate major developments with UK Tourism sector projects this year and partnership with Visit London is a natural step for us. Visit London promotes the Capital as a premier Tourist destination round the world and Immersive360 will take full advantage of this exposure to promote our Clients VR Tours through this valuable channel. This allows us to offer our clients a unique added value service. For more info contact us, click here and drop is an e-mail |
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www.acropolis360.com
Matt Barrett creator of three of the most informative web sites on Athens and Greek Tourism and History has added our heritage VR project www.acropolis360.com to three of his sites. Mat said " This is proably the coolest site I have seen of the Acropolis" and Matt should know he has seen more or less all of them. Thanks Matt for your support. Visit our links page to find links to Matt's web sites.
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Broadband E-Commerce comes of age.
Mike O'Brian MP recently quoted:-
"We said we wanted the UK to be the best place in the world for e-business and, with broadband now available to 96% of households and more than 6 million people already subscribing, this is fast becoming a reality. Visit the Broadband Stakeholder Group web site for upto date info on broadband developments. |
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