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Re:Will only work if ActiveX is disabled by defaul
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iPix (360 degree views of real estate) is one I ran into quite regularly on a number of estate agent web sites when I was property hunting.
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This has a familiar ring to it
Perhaps because of similarity to the case of Pictosphere. This is the company of Ford Oxaal, who last year settled with Ipix. Ipix, you may recall, threatened several individuals including Prof. Helmut Dersch (author of the free Panorama Tools software; web page offline since last year), and sued Infinite Pictures over patent infringement and won.
Oxaal's dispute with Ipix was based on his claim that Ipix stole their patented ideas from him. Oxaal has a patent similar to Ipix's; it's not really clear who was first to "invent" (if you can call it that, this being software based on long-established mathematical algorithms). Under the terms of the settlement, Ipix paid for a license to use Oxaal's technology (presumably an admission that Oxaal owned the technology, not Ipix).
The similarity is that Pictosphere is offering, for $500 US, a license that (it is claimed) would protect users from prosecution for infringement (e.g., by Ipix).
The second similarity is that, while claiming patent rights to the concept of spherical panorama photography, Pictosphere is now distributing Prof. Dersch's software under the GPL.
Lest you think that Pictosphere, by playing the SCO-like role in this matter, is the only bad guy here, Ipix is now
suing Pictosphere, now claiming that Pictosphere's software infringes the same Ipix patent that was previously disputed. Ipix has achieved some notoriety for using the chilling effects of patent law. -
This has a familiar ring to it
Perhaps because of similarity to the case of Pictosphere. This is the company of Ford Oxaal, who last year settled with Ipix. Ipix, you may recall, threatened several individuals including Prof. Helmut Dersch (author of the free Panorama Tools software; web page offline since last year), and sued Infinite Pictures over patent infringement and won.
Oxaal's dispute with Ipix was based on his claim that Ipix stole their patented ideas from him. Oxaal has a patent similar to Ipix's; it's not really clear who was first to "invent" (if you can call it that, this being software based on long-established mathematical algorithms). Under the terms of the settlement, Ipix paid for a license to use Oxaal's technology (presumably an admission that Oxaal owned the technology, not Ipix).
The similarity is that Pictosphere is offering, for $500 US, a license that (it is claimed) would protect users from prosecution for infringement (e.g., by Ipix).
The second similarity is that, while claiming patent rights to the concept of spherical panorama photography, Pictosphere is now distributing Prof. Dersch's software under the GPL.
Lest you think that Pictosphere, by playing the SCO-like role in this matter, is the only bad guy here, Ipix is now
suing Pictosphere, now claiming that Pictosphere's software infringes the same Ipix patent that was previously disputed. Ipix has achieved some notoriety for using the chilling effects of patent law. -
Silicon Valley is NOT alive and wellDespite much hype to the contrary, Silicon Valley is quite alive and well, as is our increasingy data-driven, tech-based economy.
Jon, you're full of shit.
If the Valley was quite alive and well, then why did my former company go from almost 1700 people to less than a hundred in 18 months (and then I got laid off in January). IPIX wasnt one of the cruft. I helped design and implemented most of the Enhanced Picture Services (as seen on eBay.com) system, hell I ran it all singlehandedly for a few weeks at a time, and usually with a tiny ops team. If it was such a technology boom, I should've been able to hire people to help me. We also ran the Full360 real estate virtual tours system.
Now I see why everyone's tired of your same old bullshit, Jon.
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Just one of manyI have been reading about 1 article every sixth months for the last 5 years that talks about a particular immersive video company as if it invented the idea.
The truth is there are several companies who have been attempting to bring immersive video to consumers for several years now. Some of them are:
The first and most successful immersive video system AFAIK is Disney' Circle Vision theater in Tomorrowland, which has been open since 1971.
The biggest problems in delivering immersive video are bandwidth, resolution, frame rate, and parallax. Selection of delivery media affects the bandwidth problem which of course is related to frame rate and resolution.
The parallax problem arises in multiple camera solutions. Basically, in order to seemlessly mosaic images from multiple cameras, they have to have the same nodal points or the objects in the scene need to be very far away. Single camera solutions (using specially shaped mirrors) suffer from low resolution. Multiple camera solutions that use mirrors, such as Disney's Circle Vision system, can achieve low parallax but tend to have a limited verticle coverage.
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Re:RIM Web interaction
Hi, The RIM now has several web browsing options. Most include shttp, up to secure solutions using dedicated router/firewall solutions. Im working on a project involving 500 RIM's distributed to our sales force to allow them database access over our WML site. Go RIM!
lamp77
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Re:3D video unlikely
Well true 3D video is going to take a while to come by. But for right now you can watch movies in a 360 dgree interactive enviroment. see it at http://www.behere.com/. Only if someone can figure out how to do this with IPIX (http://www.ipix.com) technology.
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Possible /. manipulation?I'm worried. What is this poster's motivation?
Their first post starts off by telling
Their next post appears to provide a useful resource to the community, listing IPIX contact details and shareholders.
One of these shareholders is given as the Media One Group (mediaone.com). http://www.ipix.com/about/about.html corroborates this. A quick lookup on http://nsiregistry.com gives us a primary domain server for mediaone.com of ns1.mediaone.net. So mediaone.com and mediaone.net are the same entity.
The two posts I have referred to purport to come from signal11@mediaone.netI don't know what's going on here, but I don't think I much like it.
signal11@mediaone.net has been notified of this reply, so I hope (s)he will soon come and explain themselves. For their sakes, I just hope it's all a big coincidence/cock-up.
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Contact Information for: IPIX
IPIX North American Sales
1-800-336-7113
sales@ipix.com
IPIX Stockhouse Manager, Jeff Puckett
1-888-909-IPIX
stock@ipix.com
IPIX CLIENTS
Suprisingly.. blank
Maybe you'd like to talk to their investors?
Motorola
Mediaone
Advance Internet
American Express
Financial Advisors
Cendant
General Electric
Invision
JP Morgan
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Contact Information for: IPIX
IPIX North American Sales
1-800-336-7113
sales@ipix.com
IPIX Stockhouse Manager, Jeff Puckett
1-888-909-IPIX
stock@ipix.com
IPIX CLIENTS
Suprisingly.. blank
Maybe you'd like to talk to their investors?
Motorola
Mediaone
Advance Internet
American Express
Financial Advisors
Cendant
General Electric
Invision
JP Morgan
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Contact Information for: IPIX
IPIX North American Sales
1-800-336-7113
sales@ipix.com
IPIX Stockhouse Manager, Jeff Puckett
1-888-909-IPIX
stock@ipix.com
IPIX CLIENTS
Suprisingly.. blank
Maybe you'd like to talk to their investors?
Motorola
Mediaone
Advance Internet
American Express
Financial Advisors
Cendant
General Electric
Invision
JP Morgan
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