At 7pm (UK time) on Sunday 21st of December 1997, over 100 QuickTime VR photographers around the globe simultaneously shot panoramas to capture a moment of the world's life frozen in VR.
The finished results are a global snapshot ranging from views of early morning on the beaches of Hawaii, lunchtime on the streets of New York, the evening streets of Europe through to Asia in the middle of the night. This was the first ever large scale coordinated QTVR shoot and shows vividly the differences in time zones and seasonal and lifestyle contrasts over the whole planet at any given moment in time.
The finished results can be viewed at http://hotspots.hawaii.com/wrinkle.html
The event was masterminded by Robert Abbet (rabbett@irh.com). Preparations are now underway for wrinkle 2 which will is likely to occur on March 20th (the spring solstice). It is hoped that Wrinkle 2 will be bigger and better, so anyone interested in participating should visit the wrinkle site for further information as soon as possible.
