Great image - love to see it as a spherical QTVR. Then you’d really feel the tension!
Did you take this Paul?
Cool!
I recommend lying down, then standing up really fast just before you look at it to simulate the oxygen-deprived sensation that’s supposed to go with the view.
djm
Hey, I can see my house!
time to check your meds…
No, really, if you stand with your back to K-2, then look over to where… oh… nevermind… sigh…
Very cool, made me a bit dizzy when I started going 360 too fast though, odd sensation to get sitting at the computer.
Loren
Okay, it’s official: This Panorama link is the coolest thing ever! Check out this one of St. Peter’s Catherdral - not only can you look 360 degree’s in the horizontal, but you can go vertical as well - 360 in any direction: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen6/f16-vatican-san-pietro.html
Geeze, this thing is going to cause me problems, I could look at this stuff for months…
Loren
I certainly did. I cut and pasted it myself without any help at all. 
I was thinking about Everest today because there is an interesting article in this month’s Outside Magazine. It’s the 10 year anniversary since that ill-fated expedition that inspired the book Into Thin Air. I was reading the article last night. I don’t know how many there are but pretty much everyone who has died trying to reach the summit is still up there where they fell. I gather From what I’ve read that when you make the ascent you pass some of these people from time to time as you go along. It’s eerily fascinating to me.
Weel, you never know 
. I take a lot ot VRs myself and I’m just getting into making spherical 360º versions. I’ve got VRs of some great pipemakers’ workshops
Paul, that’s true. The dead bodies are simply too heavy to carry down. You can’t fly helicopters or anything like that on that altitude eighter so there’s no way to airlift them. If you die up there, you’ll remain up there.
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A swede who successfully summited Everest a couple of years ago talked about this. He was on his way down to camp 3 at 8300 meters and his oxygen had run out. He sat down to take a rest and after a while he discovered that there was a man sitting next to him. He had been sitting there for two years.
It is facinating.
I have a huge respect for all this. And I am going to summit Everest one day!
I made a thread about this maybe a month or two ago titled Mountaineering.
Edit: BTW, that’s a really cool link.
I have to admit to a certain morbid fascination with this, I spent half an hour a few months ago peering at google earth to see if I could spot the dead bodies but I couldn’t find any.
Dave
Thought I’d post one of my own low res versions - non-spherical.
Well, it ain’t Mount Everest but this is my latest test on the spherical panoramic VR. This is my music room at home.
Very nice, and even with music! 
But what I also like is that dog-ghost
Thanks for sharing.
Silvano
Very nicely done. I was exploring around, sort of in another world, and then I realized I was looking at the camera in the sliding door mirrors. I really loved that moment, although I can’t say why. It was sort of like I thought I was alone and then I saw the camera and realized I wasn’t.
Why does the dog look ghost-like? I have noticed that on other panoramic photos. Are they moving and the film is going slow? I have seen old photos like that also, where the people had to sit for a long time very still and anything moving didn’t show up. I saw an old photograph of a street in Paris which looked almost deserted but when you looked closely you could see many faint blurs of people walking too fast to be caught by the camera. If there isn’t a simple explanation don’t answer because I wouldn’t understand it .
Paul, who made the first post, I have really enjoyed that website very much.
Oh, what does VR stand for? I’m sure I’ll kick myself.
I think it’s Virtural Reality.
Tony’s got it - virtual reality. It’s been around for a number of years now, but has made some advances in the last couple.
The “spherical” VR is created from 3 horizontal rows of images top middle and lower - and each row is generated from multiple shots to make up the 360º. It is a little complex. But fundamentally speaking the images are “stitched” together and blended using sophisticated software Al Gore-ythms. (that’s a web pun for ya). The ghosting happens when one image is blended with another that has the object removed within that frame. So the dog came and had a drink, but had left before I could take the other image that was stitched with it. In the case of Cillian’s VR, I had him stand or sit in different areas and then took the shot, moved him took another etc…
I’ve been immersed in about 100 hours of research over the last few weeks, it’s been intense and I have found some really beautiful work out there.
Here a couple of links to check out!
http://milan.arounder.com/category/fullscreen/IT000005334.html
http://nylocations.com/qtvr/jerusalem/index.php
http://fromparis.com/index.php
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f3.html
http://www.walkingwithaids.info/vr2
cheers,
PR
Paul, your music room is awesome!
Actually, I envisioned something a bit less… formal.
I’ll check those links later.
When Quicktime first starts I see a 3D grid. Is this the framework where the images get stitched into?