Park visitors at Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park intending to learn about the Wright Brothers often visit Huffman Prairie, an unassuming open space where the Wrights did much of their formative testing. The field, a large open expanse, challenges a visitors imagination as to how they flew there. In 2010, the park will unveil a unique and unprecedented historic interpretation tool for it’s visitors, the VR Flight Viewer, conceptualized and produced by xRez Studio. (...)
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Post tags: Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park, Huffman Prairie, On Great White Wings, Spherical Animation, Spherical Video, Virtual Reality, Wright Brothers

Yosemite Valley experiences numerous rockfalls each year, with over 600 rockfall events documented since 1850. Due to the pulverization of the rockfall mass, evaluating and quantifying rockfall characteristics has proved challenging without any high-resolution baseline imagery of the Valley walls, which could act as a useful datum for before/after comparisons. (...)
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Post tags: Camera Mapping, Cultural Heritage, Curry Village, Geology, Gigapan, Gigapixel, LIDAR, Microsoft, Mircrosoft, Rockfall, Siggraph, Yosemite, Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project, Yosemite Panoramic Imaging Project

Just a short drive from the southern entrance route to Yosemite National Park, is a remarkable but less-visited deep-carved river gorge in the Sierra Nevada foothills. In spring of 2008, xRez Studio was contracted by BLM park manager Tracy Rowlands to shoot the beautiful San Joaquin River Gorge in gigapixel resolution for the Bureau of Land Management’s visitor center, where a 14′ long high-resolution print was subsequently installed in a new visitor center later that summer.(...)
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Post tags: BLM, Gigapixel, Gigpixel Print, Print, San Joaquin River Gorge