Kaidan MacWorld Product Announcements
Kaidan Introduces Affordable Motorized Panoramic VR Tripod Head
NEW YORK CITY, New York Macworld Expo - July 19, 2000 - Kaidan Incorporated, the leading manufacturer of Photographic VR hardware, announced and publicly demonstrated today AutoPan, a motorized, computer-controlled panoramic tripod head. Kaidan AutoPan is a modular system that will eventually support a wide-range of cameras and image-capture solutions. The first member of the AutoPan family, that Kaidan is announcing, supports the Kodak DC290 digital camera. This camera uses the Digita operating system from Flashpoint, and when used with the AutoPan, the camera controls the movement of the motorized head and the capture of the images. Kaidan is actively working with other digital camera manufacturers to provide AutoPan support for their cameras.
The Kaidan AutoPan consists of a motorized indexing head, motor control unit, rechargeable battery, AC adapter/charger, DC290 camera bracket, DC290 wide-angle lens and adapter, Digita camera control script software, universal bracket (has a 1/4-20 threaded stud that can be used to mount other tripod heads), cabling and documentation. All the above is shipped in a protective plastic transport case. A version that includes a Kodak DC290 digital camera will also be available.
Pricing and availability of the Kaidan AutoPan will be announced by September 1, 2000.
Kaidan and Thomas-Media.com Announce Channel360.com Immersive Imaging Gear
NEW YORK CITY, New York Macworld Expo - July 19, 2000 - Kaidan Incorporated of Feasterville, PA and Thomas-Media.com of Redmond, WA announced today the creation of Channel360.com Immersive Imaging Gear. Channel360.com will resell Kaidan equipment through the Channel360.com e-commerce virtual store. Immersive Imaging is digital content created from photographic images. Embedded into a web site, an Immersive Image offers a photo-realistic self-guided exploration of a location or an object.
Channel360.com Immersive Imaging Gear will go live July 20, 2000.
Kaidan Announces New Options for Multi-row VR Panorama Technologies
NEW YORK CITY, New York - Macworld - July 19, 2000 - Kaidan Incorporated, the leading manufacturer of Photographic VR hardware, announced today that their QuickPan Spherical panoramic tripod head is now available separately. Previously, the QuickPan Spherical was only available bundled with panoramic imaging software. The QuickPan Spherical Panoramic VR Tripod Head (QPS-1) is now available for a suggested retail price of .95. In addition, the QuickPan Spherical Elevation Camera Bracket (QPSE-1) is available separately for those existing Kaidan QuickPan owners who wish to explore the new world of multi-row panoramas. The QPSE-1 is essentially the QPS-1 less the indexing base. The QPSE-1 has a suggested retail price of .95.
A new product, the KiWi+ Spherical has also been announced. The KiWi+ Spherical combines the multi-row camera bracket of the QPS-1 with the indexing base of the KiWi+. It offers a lightweight solution for those wanting to shoot multi-row panoramics with smaller digital cameras (Limited to camera with a mounting surface-to-lens center dimension of 2 1/8 inches or less). The KiWi+ Spherical has a suggested retail price of .95. Additionally, a KiWi Spherical Elevation Camera Bracket (KSE-1) is available for owners of KiWi, KiWi-L and KiWi+ Panoramic Tripod Heads. The KSE-1 has a suggested retail price of .95.
Kaidan Announces Panoscan Offset Bracket
NEW YORK CITY, New York Macworld Expo - July 19, 2000 - Kaidan Incorporated, the leading manufacturer of Photographic VR hardware, announced today the Panoscan Offset Bracket. The Offset Bracket is a Panoscan camera accessory that mounts the camera on its motorized base in such a manner as to properly locate the nodal point (optical center) of certain lenses, such as the Nikkor 16mm fisheye lens. The Offset Bracket is an essential accessory for creating full view images with the Panoscan camera, such as iPIX spherical or the upcoming cubic QuickTime VR.
The Kaidan Panoscan Offset Bracket will be available in July 2000 from Kaidan and their authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of .95. NEW YORK CITY, New York - Macworld - July 19, 2000 - Kaidan Incorporated, the leading manufacturer of Photographic VR hardware, announced today a software application designed to simplify the creation of QuickTime VR (QTVR) Object Movies. QuickObject processes a sequence of digital images into an interactive QTVR object movie. To assist people with placement of QTVR object movies on eBay, Kaidan has also developed an eBay QTVR object web placement page that makes it easy to post object movies to the eBay site (http://www.kaidan.com/ebay.html). eBay users will be able to very easily create and add QTVR object movies of their auctioned items. Bidders will be able to virtually hold and inspect goods instead of relying on numerous flat photographs. QuickObject will be sold separately on a Macintosh/Windows hybrid CD-ROM, along with QuickTime software for .95. It will also be included with the PiXi Photographic VR Object Starter Kit, which includes a PiXi manual turntable and the QuickObject software for .95.
Kaidan Announces QuickTimeŽ VR Object Creation Utility Software and eBay Submission Tool for QTVR Objects
