Diarna, “Our Homes” in Judeo-Arabic, is the flagship initiative of Digital Heritage Mapping, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit specializing in digitally preserving historic and cultural sites worldwide. The project pioneers the use of digital mapping technologies to explore the unfolding of Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa through the prism of physical location by digitizing individual sites (schools, cemeteries, synagogues, shrines) and memories.
Anyone with an Internet connection can use Diarna to travel across the region as if on eagles' wings, unaffected by political and inter-religious strife below. Previously unknown or difficult to visit sites are now "visitble" via Diarna's weaving and synthesizing of satellite imagery, immersive panoramas, three-dimensional architectural models, archival and contemporary photography, scholarship, and oral history recordings.
Dirven by a team with diverse background and outlooks--including young Muslims eager to discover their shared history--Diarna has been: featured as a resource for scholars in the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World" (Brill Publications, 2010); recognized as one of the 50 most innovative Jewish projects in North America by the Slingshot Fund (2009-2010); the subject of a panel at the Association of Jewish Studies' 42nd Conference; profiled in Haaretz (http://goo.gl/2N9VZ); and is partnered with Wellesley College, the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People, and the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute.
The immersive panos published here are an advance preview of The Diarna Project's D'fina exhibit (http://www.JewishMorocco.org), dedicated to uncovering the "buried" or "covered" Jewish treasures of Morocco.
Spanning the entire country, from metropolitan centers to remote villages, D’fina proffers a virtual passport to visitors wishing to explore mountain-top shrines of Jewish “saints” that continue to be voluntarily protected by Muslim caretakers, scorpion-guarded genizot (burial grounds for holy texts and objects), anthropomorphic tombstones in seaside cemeteries, synagogues on the edge of the Sahara Desert, and ancient urban quarters with hidden reminders of their one-time residents. This exhibit marks the first public showing of documentation on the majority of these sites, including several Vichy regime desert labor and “discipline” camps where hundreds of Jews and non-Jewish political prisoners toiled, suffered torture, and died during the Holocaust.
Making panoramas professionally since 2007.
Made virtual tours of the pyramids (outside), a submarine, and lots of Bulgarian landmarks such as the Belogradchick rocks, Perperikon, Shipka etc.
Shot virtual tours for big businesses such as Technopolis, The Mall (in Sofia), Chevrolet, Pierre Cardin.
Done tours for many small businesses on budget all across Bulgaria - shops, family hotels etc.
Made free public service panoramas for churches and schools.
Shot from rooftops, helicopter, forklift, inside a submarine, ship engine room, cars.
Taught some of the Bulgarian panorama photographers how to shoot and make tours, some of them becoming quite popular.
Done lots of subcontractor work for other virtual tour companies, shooting other important landmarks.
Calculating pricing of tours based on the amount of work, not the size of the client.
Part of commercial work done can be seen at the company page
Some of the more interesting panoramas are in the blog
Some of the old low-res (shot with mirror) and new high-res panos are at the main public page
Lots of work done is not shown on these sites, so send me any questions at ds (at) 360.bg
360° - Panoramen machen "den Raum" virtuell erlebbar. Sie vermitteln wie kaum ein anderes Medium einen realistischen Eindruck eines Raumes oder einer Landschaft. Der Betrachter bestimmt den Bildausschnitt interaktiv mit der Maus. Dies ist natürlich nicht immer von Vorteil, viele Motive bekommen erst durch einen bestimmten Bildausschnitt die richtige Wirkung. Allerdings, bietet die 360° Panoramafotografie eine hervorragende wenn zugleich auch etwas aufwändigere Möglichkeit, komplexe Örtlichkeiten kompakt "aufzubereiten" und so auch einem Ortsfremden Betrachter einen durchaus realistischen Eindruck zu bieten.
Weitere Fotos aus der rhein-ruhr Region gibt´s in meiner Fotocommunity Galerie
There are several things I do apart from making panorama images, namely working for PortaOne (leading global communications infrastructure vendor using 360 panoramas as graphic elements in corporate design) and practicing Aikido in Ljubljana based sportclub Dokiai.
For other photographic artwork please visit www.pano.si
We specialise in high-end 360˚ imagery, capturing + post-processing + VR tours.
Our photographer Peter won several awards:
- 360˚ Video of the Year Award 2017
at 360Cities.net - Grand Prize winner
at the IVRPA 2018 Tokyo Conference - Silver Award at IVRPA 2018 Tokyo,
Futurescape category - Bronze Award at IVRPA 2018 Tokyo,
Historic Sites category - Bronze Award at IVRPA 2018 Tokyo,
Offbeat category - Silver Award at IVRPA 2017 Vienna,
Vienna Live category - Bronze Award at IVRPA 2017 Vienna,
Culture category
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Nascido em São Paulo (SP), mudou-se para Ubatuba aos dez anos de idade. Caiçara por adoção, conheceu a fase áurea da região a qual se dedicou a retratar em fotos desde 1990.
Autor do primeiro site da região, o Litoral Virtual, possui uma extensa lista de fotos publicadas em várias mídias da região. Cinegrafista e video maker, lançou também o programa Maré Legal, veiculado em TV´s por assinatura em várias cidades.
Atualmente se dedica a fotos panorâmicas 360 graus onde divulga através do site Panotour imagens dos principais pontos de interesse regional.
Hans von Weissenfluh. Born in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1974. Freelance Photographer, web developer, graphic designer, he has been working in Genoa and Florence for 15 years. He first approached 360° photography while he was working at Costa Cruises as a web designer. Specialized in high resolution luxury yacht interior design 360° photography, nautical event photography and architectural photography (mainly historic buildings). Website: Virtual Tour HvW
Expert in photo retouching, interface design, programming for virtual tours, using Flash, XML, XHTML, CSS, PHP.
Other websites: YachtPanorama
Virtual Tour 360
