John Carmack

The stereoscopic panoramic videos that we're showing on Samsung VR are getting a lot of positive traction. It's exciting when you see creative types - whether from the music, film, or video industries - look at this stuff. The gears are turning in their head almost immediately about how they can use it as a new medium.

American Scientist

Robert Eggers

Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that panoramic canvas to work on. But if you look at art history there's not a whole lot of epic paintings that are in that aspect ratio.

American Director

Brendan I. Koerner

Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.

American Author

Tamzin Outhwaite

My favourite view is just up the road from my house where, if you look one way, you can see Alexandra Palace, and if you turn the other, you get a panoramic view of the whole of London, including the Gherkin and Canary Wharf.

English Actress

Jonathan Coe

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

English Novelist

Max Heindel

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.

Danish Celebrity

The word emphasizes the impressive visual effect of seeing a lot at once.

Visual Impact

Although often visual, 'panoramic' can describe other experiences that cover a wide scope.

Not Just Visual

Can be used metaphorically to indicate something that is very comprehensive or thorough.

Metaphoric Use

Most common in photography, it describes a picture that captures a wide perspective.

Photographic Context

Sometimes implies the use of special techniques or equipment in photography.

Special Equipment

Refers to images with a long horizontal dimension compared to its vertical dimension.

Aspect Ratio

 And we deploy our high-gain antennas, so we can talk directly back to Earth. The last thing that you are going to see the Rover do in this animation is it's going to take a panoramic image. One of the things that you want to do when you've landed in a new place is find out where you are. So we are going to take this beautiful image, we're going to start transmitting that back to Earth. So the next day what we're going to do is

The Curious Life of a...

 and we have this global digital fireplace, don't we, but I want to share you with the world, because you are also a tribe. You are the TED tribe, yeah? But you have to remember that compliment. You have to stand tall, breathe in through your nose, and I'm going to photograph you. Okay? I need to do a panoramic shot, so it's going to take a minute, so you have to concentrate, okay?

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...

 What are the properties of consciousness? What should a science of consciousness try to explain? Well, for today I'd just like to think of consciousness in two different ways. There are experiences of the world around us, full of sights, sounds and smells, there's multisensory, panoramic, 3D, fully immersive inner movie.

Your brain hallucinates...

 speckled pattern which helps camouflage them whilst they're less confident on their feet like the adults the forms large eyes are placed on the side of their head giving them a panoramic view to spot danger there will rely on their mother's milk for three to four months and will stay by her side for up to a

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 meeting somebody who's so passionate about the nitrous guy like baba is very very exciting to me to prepare him for much more advanced photography where we're heading we're getting down this trail up on that hill so we have a better panoramic view of the entire canyon okay all right i'm following you

How to Photograph the...

 Why do wars start? What are good battlefield tactics? Do nations rise and fall on the actions of so-called great men like Napoleon, or are there larger cultural and economic forces at play? These extended digressions are part of what make "War and Peace" so panoramic in scope.

Why should you read...

 the resort has been rebuilt three times over the years. Today you can take in the panoramic views in one of the two restaurants that now occupy the neoclassical structure. The lure of the city by the bay goes so much deeper than its natural beauty.

Your Guide to San...

 to render the terrain issue as you see it here. And my closing story is about how sight helped the other side. A federal general named GK Warren stood in the spot that this panoramic view is showing you, looking out over the battlefield.

A digital reimagining of...

 keel it will travel in the same way as a drifting iceberg when the sea orbiter is finished two modules will combine to form a gigantic buoy panoramic windows give a perfect view of the world above

Utopian Underwater...

 fused and panoramic imaging and let's think about what happens if we take those outward captures and we turn them so that you are rotating around the subject instead that's what you see here

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