Interactive Astonishing Photography

[man]

Armchair tourists is reference to those who visit a place by watching a film or slideshow of that place. In the near future that can be quite an experience with new interactive photography --a sample of which is in the link given at bottom:

 

In that page, in the middle there is photo of the Everest Mt. (hopefully the turn of Ararat would be coming) play with that photo, after enlanging it to full screen see how you can zoom, go left/right up/down and in circles and so on..quite an experience!

The incredible interactive two BILLION pixel image of Everest that lets you zoom in as if you were on the mountain

• Astonishing image was created from 477 photographs stitched together
  
• Created by filmmaker David Breashears and nonprofit organisation GlacierWorks
  

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2FYLW1tDG

[Sip]

I thought the Armchair tourists just use Google StreetView now

[man]

No, actually there is google PANAROMIC photo site where when in full page you can circle the image 360 degree, bring it close or far. I found this site, but when I put "Yerevan" in search box it came EMPTY, shame, nobody put something there, anyone can put after registration. When I put "Armenia" in search box -only when came, a nice Armenian church in Singapure, as if Armenia is nowhere to be found. I went visiting some European capitals though:

 

http://www.panoramicearth.com/

 

http://www.panoramicearth.com/452/Singapore/Armenian_Church

 

Panoramic Earth - Thousands of 360° virtual tour panoramas from all over the world. Each panorama is linked to Google Maps and comes with local and travel information. Contributed by different panoramic photographers, we provide a growing picture guide to the world. The resulting tours may be used by other websites. A growing collection of 360° panoramas showing the wonders of earth with free virtual tour hosting for panoramic photographers.