Virtual Africa

Virtual Africa – under (re)construction

Tinus le Roux — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:52:36 +0000

Saying that 2010 has been a big year so far would be a bit of an understatement! The bottom line: Virtual Africa is restructuring to accommodate the growth of our business and we’re quite embarrassed that this site is not yet reflecting the changes. In a typical case of “the shoemaker’s kids never having shoes” we’ve focused [...]

World Cup Final GigaPixel Image

Tinus le Roux — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:43:35 +0000

We recently created an interactive GigaPixel Image of the Super14 Final at Orlando Stadium. Now we want to do something even cooler, more spectacular and MUCH more ambitious. We want to create a 360º GigaPixel Image of the World Cup Finals - but this time, we need your help to make it happen. The GigaPixel Image [...]

Cape Town Stadium in High Definition 360º

Tinus le Roux — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:32:58 +0000

With all the hard work in the running up to the World Cup Soccer, I almost forgot that we created a very cool interactive virtual tour of the Cape Town Stadium about month ago. Click on the image to access the fullscreen virtual tour and explore this magnificent stadium from all angles. For more 360º [...]

Super14 Final GigaPixel Image – double the definition!

Tinus le Roux — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:53:40 +0000

I have to apologize for this late post. (pre-World Cup chaos) The Super14 Final took place 8 days ago and I know quite a few people have been coming back to this site to see if we successfully created another GigaPixel Image. The good news is: we did! In fact, on a technical level, it’s [...]

The Newlands GigaPixel Image: how we did it

Tinus le Roux — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:54:47 +0000

The Picture Apart from being a very high definition image, which allows you to explore the stadium like never before, we’ve also built in functionality which will allow you to tag anything you find interesting and share the zoomed in image with your friends. The idea I can’t take full credit for the idea itself, [...]