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360 vision, from panoramas to VR

generic panorama section 3D model made by Laurent Lescop
generic panorama section 3D model made by Laurent Lescop

Edinburgh 1787, Scotland, Robert Barker invents a totally new way to observe a city. With him, space, time and meaning are controlled and the audience gets for maybe the first time, the complete illusion of being immersed, invited, in a remote place. His invention will then know a great success and be spread all over the world. New technologies will enrich the process of immersion, the spectacular aspect of being elsewhere without moving. Until with our state of the art devices, we still experiment the same protocols that Barker and his followers. This wonderful space and time machine is a Panorama, and it simply changed the way we observe the world. Continuer la lecture de 360 vision, from panoramas to VR

A Marcel,

C’est souvent comme cela, le temps n’attend pas les mots qui doivent se dire, les compliments qui doivent s’exprimer, les reproches que l’on souhaite adresser, l’affection que l’on veut témoigner. Ces derniers temps Marcel était très occupé, il passait en coup de vent, entre deux nouveaux projets, la plume sur cinq ou six textes, il était difficile de l’accrocher, de passer un message, puis le silence s’est installé et puis il est parti.

Marcel Freydefont
Marcel Freydefont

Et nous restons comme cela, ballant, les mots inutiles, un peu perdus. Continuer la lecture de A Marcel,