5 - 2004

Saint Paul's Winter Carnival - Minnesota US

QTVR by Edward Fink New Eden Multimedia

The Winter Carnival in Saint Pauls is the Coolest Celebration on Earth. At least that is what their Banners say.

This Famous Festival has been held since 1886 and as a part of it a giant Ice Castle is built from ice cut out of the Minnesota Lakes.

Edward Fink has created a special web site about the Ice Castle which includes also panoramas from the construction of the Palace which started already in December.

The Carnival is open until Februar 8.

Links:

Winter-carnival
City of Saint Paul, Minnesota

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4 - 2004

The Statue of Liberty in Paris

QTVR by Laurent Thion ecliptique.com

The Statue of Liberty was made by the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. It was a gift to New York from the people of France. It is one of the worlds best known landmarks.

But did you know that Paris also has a copy of it?

The size is only 1/3 of the original. It was given to the French people in 1889 by the American community in Paris and stands on a small island in the Seine where it looks down the river toward the Atlantic ocean and New York.

Laurent Thion is also featured in the present issue of VRMag where you can see 8 Fullscreens from the fantastic area in Paris called La Défense

Links:

A fullscreen panorama of the "real" Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty - Wikipedia

MARS EXTRA - images credit NASA/JPL QTVR creation @ Hans Nyberg, panoramas.dk
	Sunday Jan 18 MARS Rover new panorama ROVER SPIRIT has left the Mothership. This is a BW image but it gives you a fantastic view of how it looks. It is a Cubic (spherical) panorama and you can look down from above.
	MARS Pathfinder 1997 panorama Did you know that NASA already in 1997 made a panorama from Mars. The Pathfinder Mission landed on Mars 4th July and this panorama was made July 21. For the first time you can now see it as a Cubic Fullscreen QTVR.
	Tuesday Jan 13 02.00 GMT First Fullscreen QTVR from Mars is now online The first 360 degree high resolution panoramic image from Mars MER was posted at NASA a couple of hours ago. As the first I have created a fullscreen QTVR from the image released by NASA

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3 - 2004

Lord of The Rings, the Return of the King movie Premiere in New Zealand

Panorama by Clayton Tume

The official movie premiere of the last part of the Tolkien trilogi, The return of the King was between Dec 17-20.

The world premiere however was in Wellington New Zealand on December 1. Most of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogi was made in New Zealand where Peter Jackson the instructor is born.

At the premiere an estimation of more than 100.000 people was in the streets of Wellington.

Read Clayton Tume's story about how he made this amazing panorama from the 470m red carpet leading to the premiere at Embassy Theatre.

Read more:

Lord of the Rings official page

The Official Page of New Zealand Travel and Business

Lord of the Rings Wellington

BBC about the event

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1-2 2004

TIMES SQUARE NEW YEAR 2004 - WOW

Jook Leung has done it again. This year with sound.

I can only say ENJOY this amazing cubic QTVR

More New York by Jook

New york from Empire State building at 4th July

Links:

Travel New York

New York City NYC