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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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, [...]
About a 18 months ago, the Virtual Africa crew had an important decision to make: “Go big or go Home”. Luckily, we decided to GO BIG . We invested everything we had and committed as much awake time humanly possible to one single goal : to transform our little South African 360º photography business into [...]
We’re at it again. Breaking new ground in photography and teaming up with Go2Africa to bring you the coolest competition Cape Town has ever seen. I won’t bore you with the amount of pixels involved this time (to be honest, I’ve simply lost count), lets just say it’s the biggest project we’ve been involved in [...]
With so many sport start being in the news for all the wrong reasons, it’s refreshing to see someone like Bob Skinstad, ex Springbok Rugby captain, using his celebrity status to do some good. Bob recently locked himself in a make-shift jail cell in the V&A Waterfront in an effort to create awareness and raise [...]
Today is the 20th aniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. We celebrate it by sharing this 360º image of his jail cell on Robben Island in the hope that it will remind us all of what was sacrificed for the freedom of a nation. As Matt Damon depicted in the recent movie ‘Invictus’ – [...]
2010 has started with a BOOM here at Virtual Africa. We’re literally flooded with requests to create virtual tours of guest houses, hotels and restaurants and we’ve even been commissioned to create a bunch of Hyper Definition Images (including Johannesburg and Pretoria). After five years of risking everything and working like mad men, it seems [...]
We recently had the privilege to do some virtual tour updates at three of the four Isibindi Africa Lodges. We’ll share some of the shots via Twitter (@Daily_360) in the weeks to come, but for now, just enjoy the view from the Rhino Post Safari Lodge deck. Click on the Full Screen button (top right) [...]
We have been overwhelmed by the response to our recent Hyper Definition Image of Cape Town and appreciate so many people taking the time to write comments and send us mails. As a show of our appreciation, we’ve dusted off another Hyper Definition Image we took from Signal Hill earlier this year and converted it [...]
When you work in the virtual tour business, you have the privilege to witness technological advances almost daily. But every once in a while these changes combine to create an effect that can only be described as a Game Changer. Today we are proud to share such an culmination of technological advances. For a lack [...]
Google Street View is coming to South Africa and it seems people are unsure if they should be terrified or excited. In an effort to make some sense of the issue, I’ve decided to write a few words on the following : 1. What is Street View and how does Google create it? 2. What [...]
We recently created a virtual tour of the KFM studio’s in Cape Town and it has been added to their website: www.kfm.co.za . Ryan O’Connor (the morning show DJ) was our tour guide and, as you’ll see from the embedded video clips in the virtual tour, he is just as comfortable in front of the [...]
Took a lovely hike up Lions Head yesterday. If you haven’t done it before – it’s a brilliantly beautiful walk with views all around. And the view from the top ….. well, you can judge for yourself: Remember to click on the full screen icon – top right.
Most people have heard of Fynbos. We know it’s unique, we don’t always understand why, but we like the look of proteas and believe the experts when they say it’s important to conserve and protect these plants. Even UNESCO has pitched in by declaring the Cape Floral Kingdom a World Heritage Site. One of the [...]
Many South Africans take rock art for granted, but if you stop and think about it for minute…….these paintings are extraordinary . The Mona Lisa was painted about 500 years ago and today hangs in a climate controlled secure room in Paris. These paintings at Alfred’s Rock in the Mapungubwe World Heritage site were created [...]
One of those ideas so obvious, that we just did not think about it: Use Twitter to share 360º images with the world. Well, we’ve caught on to it at last and now you can follow us at Daily_360 (https://twitter.com/Daily_360). If you’re not a Twitter user – you can view the latest ‘tweets’ on the [...]
If you’re a regular here at Virtual Africa, you would know that we have a soft spot for World Heritage Sites.
We’ve had the privilege to shoot all 8 South African World Heritage Sites on behalf of South Africa Tourism a few years ago, but when the good people of the African Heritage Epic approached us with their grand idea, we quickly learnt that the first round was just a warm up.
We couldn’t believe our luck:
Their passion was to capture 55 (yes, FIFTY FIVE!!!) African heritage sites in the best ways possible!!
