Resources mentioned directly or indirectly in my SLEDcc2008 talk and a few resources added subsequently. Some would fit in more than one category but are listed only once.
- SLEDcc2008 Sparks session
- speakEasy text
- Images
- Presenters
- Virtual Reality Room (NMC article; Shop; NMC Learning [free for educational use])
- SceneGlobe
- Examples
- Reprojecting San Jose; Circle of Palms (adjacent to PanoHUD booth)
- Chateau de Villandry (see VRR Shop)
- Navaria (video in sphere on sky platform; see SL Showcase)
- Commonwealth Island (news items displayed on Google Earth)
- Stanford University
- UCL CASA group on Second Nature (sky platform)
- The Living Cosmos (multiple images mapped onto hemisphere)
- NOAA Science on a Sphere and Holodeck on Meteora
- Visualization
- SL Dataviz wiki (Melanie Swan; SL: Xantha Oe)
- Bashiba.com (via Melanie Swan)
- Other examples of information landcapes (non-SL; no longer updated)
- Toolkits and software
- PanoHUD (for inworld panoramas but also good general advice: recommended)
- Hugin
- Pano2QTVR (Windows -- but also commercial cross-platform demo of update; see also PanoHUD toolkit for options)
- Richard Rosenman Photoshop plugin for correcting spherical distortion (based on work by Paul Bourke)
- Accessories (haven't tried all of these but they might be useful for modifying the picture or annotating)
- Creative Commons search engines (search for something like panorama, pano, 360; of course, many panoramas are not 360 degrees)
- Alternatives
- Inworld
- Sculpty-based terrains prims (Terrain Sculptor [.NET]; also services on SLexchange)
- QTVR, Microsoft Photosynth/ SL Photo Tourism