[billy_d_goat]

Hi everyone! I'm looking for someone who lives near Infinite Loop, has a digital camera, and would be willing to shoot decent virtual tour of the campus area. I work at Redbug Technologies and we just released our Mapwing virtual tour software beta last week. Fact of the matter is, we are a small company and based on the East Coast. However, as Mac users, we thought it would be pretty cool to have a a mini-tour around Apple's campus on our website to share with the Mac community. I've never been there, and I've never really seen a good photo tour of it on the web. Can you even photograph on the campus without permission? I don't know.

Anyway, our software doesn't require any fancy equipment, just a consumer digicam and a nice day. You wouldn't even need to put it together, if you didn't want to. I'd be more than happy to give credit to whoever shoots it and provide them with a copy of our software when it releases. If you are interested just post here or send an email to andrew @ redbugtech .com

Thanks!

[TheJoshu]

From what the guy working the security desk at #1 told me when I visited, you can take whatever photos you want from the outside, but none from within any of the buildings.

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by TheJoshu

From what the guy working the security desk at #1 told me when I visited, you can take whatever photos you want from the outside, but none from within any of the buildings.

Oh, I don't know...

If he asked the right people at Apple beforehand I bet he could get permission to take photos INSIDE some of the buildings for the purpose of demonstrating some new Mac software...

[:XI:]

Apple used to have a quicktime vr tour of the campus. I think I might have it on cd somewhere.

[Secret__Police]

I used to live just down the street from Apple in Saratoga. Now I live about a half hour away accross the valley.
I would be willing to take pictures for you but I'm leaving on vacation for two weeks Friday night.

[James L]

It would definitely have to be pre arranged.

I was there in January. When you park in the main lot, you can take lots of pictures. You can go into the corporate store from the outer parking lot (great selection of Apple clothing btw, that you can't get at the Apple stores), and then into the main lobby. As soon as you go in through the main doors though, you are in between two sets of doors with a security desk and an iMac system set up where you need to be registered and signed in by the security or an employee. Once done, you can enter the front lobby where there is a little coffee shop, great view of the inner court yard, etc. The campus is pretty cool actually, but you aren't getting past the front door without an invite or someone to sign you in.

Cheers!

James

[Xeo]

Your software would be pretty cool if you could somehow export it to a DVD (with the map on the right being the menu system). It's already pretty nifty.

[billy_d_goat]

Well, I definitely don't want anyone to do anything illegal. I wouldn't even want images from the inside (unless someone had a legal and appropriate way of doing it). From what it looks like, Infinite Loop is a public road. To my knowledge, you can take whatever pictures you want from a public road. So, if someone were to walk around infinite loop, take some shots, and build a tour from that, that would be great!

The cool thing is that Mapwing only requires a digicam. Tours are built from from simple images. This way you can look discrete, to a certain extent.

[billy_d_goat]

Xeo,

Thanks! We think it is pretty nifty too. Oddly enough, it started as an experimentation on DVD, but quickly grew beyond what DVD could do easily. Personally, it is my goal to bring VR to the masses. Right now, you need so much in terms of equipment and knowledge to build 3D immersive or even a QTVR based tour. The normal person cannot do this. We hope to fill that niche, so that everyone can start giving their digital photos a spatial context and share the places they talk about on the net.

Secret__Police,

I don't have a problem with you doing it in a few weeks. I wouldn't need it right away.