selected interactive projects & gallery
Flipside Studio: Shure Incorporated
Local agency Flipside Studio needed a custom Flash player for their 360° photography of the X2u, a new product offered by end client Shure. CheathamLane designed the interface for the zoomable spin, wrangled some Actionscript, and away we go! Done on a tight deadline, Shure was able to include the interactive demonstration at their booths at Macworld and CES. The interactive product display also includes hotspots with information overlays, and hi-resolution alternate views of the X2u.
Flipside Studio: Pioneer Electronics / Oreck Direct
CheathamLane continues making things spin for Flipside with Flash presentations for products offered by end clients Pioneer Electronics and Oreck. Pioneer's new line of A/V Receivers gets the treatment, which includes spiffy hotspots on multiple frames which scale and zoom with the product. Oreck's Halo vacuum display has a nice transition from the product spin to an animated view of the underside, along with navigation elements to aid the user in zoomed-in visualizing.
The Sharjah Commerce Tourism Development Authority (UAE) had Interactive Media photograph and produce a virtual tour showcasing Sharjah. Using Interactive Media's initial layout and interactive feature list, CheathamLane finessed, scripted and delivered the Flash based English version of the virtual tour. The tour includes scrolling thumbnail navigation elements, popup informational panels and more!
360° Rotational Product Photography (Object VR) & Interactive Presentation: CheathamLane photographed 32 fossil hominid casts in 360° on two axes, and designed & scripted a complex Flash delivery for the Bone Clones Fossil Hominid Rotational Series.
Each skull in the series is fully rotatable, and the high-resolution photography can be zoomed to show fine detail. The Flash interface also provides historical and geographical information for each skull, plus an interactive scale reference tool... and more! See example screenshots below, or take a trial run with the live series at www.boneclones.com.
Jones Lang LaSalle: Network Drive
Working with Jones Lang LaSalle's Interactive Design team, CheathamLane scripted and implemented the virtual tour of Network Drive at Northwest Park in Burlington, Massachusetts. The tour is delivered in Flash, and includes hotspot style navigation, image and text-based rollover flyouts, dynamic XML updating abilities, field-of-view indicators and more! CheathamLane also took the VR photography by PanoSpin of Boston and created standalone, panning Flash video for each "spin".
Grant, Scott & Hurley: Noah's Bagels
360° Rotational Product Photography by CheathamLane is the backbone of an interactive menu at noahs.com! San Francisco ad agency Grant, Scott & Hurley brought the bags and bagels, and CheathamLane styled and photographed the signature Noah's icon in the round. GS&H took the raw imagery, and placed it front and center in their interactive concept for client Einstein Noah Restaurant Group's new Web presence. Yum!
360° Rotational Product Photography: CheathamLane photographs 3 of twelve limited edition audreybags. The project was created by Audrey Hepburn's family and all proceeds go to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund. The 360° Product Rotations are delivered in Flash at audreybag.com, launched November 2007.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Virtual Facilities Tour: With a new $80M educational facility in downtown San Francisco, SFCM wanted to show it off to current and potential students, donors, and the public. What better way than with a high-resolution Virtual Tour? Visitors can view the tour at the Conservatory's site, or see views here, delivered in Flash.
Fine Art Prints of the Concert Hall are now available. Preview and order them here!
Washington DC-based GMMB created a media campaign for the humanitarian organization Save Darfur Coalition. This campaign was installed throughout the entire Montgomery BART station in San Francisco in late 2007. CheathamLane documented the campaign for GMMB with a series of 10 360° panoramas. See below for two of the interactive views.
Hollywood Set Tour: CheathamLane shot and produced virtual tour photography of the set of A&E's reality show Sons of Hollywood, styled by Pier One Imports and based in Los Angeles. Visit the tour at the show's fansite!, or see the bedroom views delivered in Flash (below). The first view below is an example of embedding YouTubeTM video in a presentation & with directional sound!
Smithsonian / National Air and Space Museum
Guess the Gauge: Smithsonian looked to CheathamLane to create and script a QuickTime-based educational 'quiz' geared to children.
Using interactive 360° panoramas of various aircraft cockpits (from the NASM's QuickTime VR Artifact Photography Project), the interactive project walks kids through instruments from aircraft past present and future, giving feedback along the way. Via CD.
SHN Theatres
San Francisco Bay Area photographer David Allen taps CheathamLane to photograph & produce 360° QTVR for client Shorenstein Hays Nederlander Theatres.
Interactive panoramas of the Orpheum, Curran and Golden Gate theatres in San Francisco complement David's stills and SHN's new Web-based marketing presence -- possibly luring a subscriber or two in the process.
Chiron Corporation 360° Facilities Tour
Virtual Facilities Tour: CheathamLane photographs 360° facilities tour for internal use by Chiron. This project of 20 panoramas is shot in conjunction with Gordon Productions' video news release for Chiron.
The ever-popular magazine Popular Mechanics needed to scout the San Francisco-based MythBusters laboratories for an upcoming story, and lured CheathamLane to the wacky digs for a scout shoot in 360°!
Groovebox Corp: Web-based training for pro audio
Video tutorials: CheathamLane worked with Groovebox to create a new delivery mechanism for their Web-based tutorials (Pro Tools, GarageBand, Cubase, etc) -- a QuickTime-based player which interacts with server-side scripts to deliver the tutorials on a per-user basis, and allows Groovebox to dynamically insert video intros, outros and interstitial sponsor ads. (now offline)
PanoSpin Studios
Panospin Studios needed to create an interactive virtual tour of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, and looked to CheathamLane to pull it all together with QuickTime & HTML scripting.
Floorplan navigation, Hotspots with rollover titles & explanation, and a custom panorama controller help to round out the experience.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Stills and Panoramic
Sunset Magazine
Stills and Panoramic
360° of Boston
CheathamLane concepts and wires QuickTime-delivered virtual tour of The Hynes Convention Center for the IVRPA & Macworld. (now offline)
CooperCarry360.com
Atlanta-based Iconologic calls on CheathamLane to design and code QuickTime-based portfolio micro-site for client Cooper Carry, showcasing 360° views of Cooper Carry architecture sites. (now offline)
spinControl:VR
CheathamLane creates a portable, QuickTime-based alternative QTVR controller, and makes it available to the QTVR developer community.
spinControl:VR is popular, and many VR producers worldwide see it as an easy-to-implement solution for their own interactive projects. spinControl:VR was first seen here at CheathamLane, but began its globe-trekking with the World Wide Panorama.
Perspective-correct Flash Panoramas
CheathamLane innovates alternative delivery of 360° panoramas and tours via new Flash-based engine; NurtureSource Designs is an early adopter of this new capability, offering promotional Web-based virtual tours of their staged homes.
Kevin Berne Photography
Kevin Berne Photography chooses CheathamLane to produce portfolio Web site. Kevin's site is easily self-maintained and updateable, and includes implementation of a CGI script-based Stock Database. (now offline)
Graystone: David Maxim Exhibition
The QuickTime-based Interactive GalleryView is published online & to CD. This 360° tour of David Maxim's exhibit at Graystone in San Francisco is comprehensive & includes: still imagery,QTVR, video of the artist and much of the text and artist info from the catalog. (now offline)
