Google acquires www.Digisfera.pt to beef up Streetview 360° media view images

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Google has acquired Digisfera, a startup focused on panoramic images. Digisfera’s employees will be joining the Street View team at Google “to continue building great experiences using 360° photography.” Financial details of the deal were not revealed. Update: Google confirmed the acquisition of Digisfera with VentureBeat but declined to share any particulars regarding the deal. Founded in January 2011, Portugal-based Digisfera describes itself as a company that provides “photography, design, and development services for projects involving 360° images.” The startup has undertaken many panoramic projects over the past five years, including photographing the inauguration of U.S. president Barack Obama, the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In addition to projects, Digisfera has also developed two sets of tools. PanoTag lets developers add tagging functionality to their apps, and Marzipano processes your panoramas and exports them as 360° images, viewable in your browser

The Latter App Marzipano will be rolled out soon (relaunched?) as Open source

See also www.Digisfera.pt (Showing message) and www.marzipano.net/ < Still Live with Demos :)

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Marzipano is a 360° media viewer for the modern web. Supports all major desktop browsers and mobile devices. Embraces standard web technologies and provides a powerful Javascript API.

Verdict Stunning.!..It's Optimized for just the Chrome and Firefox browsers at posting time but even on my slowish broadband connection it is very sharp resolution and moves around smoothly....Bring it on!

Google acquires www.Digisfera.pt to beef up Streetview 360° media view images