5th December 2013
Kadinche Corporation
Pihana Consulting
tokyo cafe 360 partners with Yahoo! Loco
Kadinche in partnership with Pihana Consulting announces that Yahoo Japan’s “Yahoo! Loco” service now lists the information and panorama photos from “tokyo cafe 360”.
These days users feel difficulty finding one cafe from the result of vast searching outputs and some wants to see how the cafe looks like inside out. Providing the method to choose the cafe intuitively is extremely important in this information overload era.
The “tokyo cafe 360” is the portal for cafes in Tokyo. All the cafes listed in this website has panorama photos to help viewers check the atmosphere. Currently 43 fashionable and comfortable cafes are posted in the website.
The “Yahoo! Loco” is one of the most popular gateways to look for cafes and restaurants. By having the information and panorama photos from “tokyo cafe 360”, the viewers can get more spatial information than ever and the “tokyo cafe 360” can expect more visitors from the “Yahoo! Loco”.
Panorama Virtual Shop of Seibu Shibuya Living Edition
2013年10月
29th October 2013
Kadinche Corporation
Announcing a New Panorama Virtual Shop of Seibu Department Store Shibuya
Seibu department store announced that it has opened a new 360 degrees panorama virtual shop of Seibu Department Store Shibu on 24th October 2013. The newly opened panorama virtual shops focuses on the basement floors interior shops Living Edition.
Living Edition of Seibu department store Shibuya is the interior floors opened on 7th June 2013. The floor has 11 different interior brands such as AREA、ZERO FIRST DESIGN、TIME & STYLE、I+STYLERS、WISE・WISE、LIVING HOUSE.、POLIS、BRUNCH、UTSUMIoriental、TYPHOON、CASAMANCE.
With the panorama virtual shops on website, the viewers can virtually visit the shops and check how the shops look like.
The contents is created and hosted by PanoPlaza, a cloud platform for panorama virtual shops.
URL: http://www2.seibu.jp/shibuya/interior-shop/
Target: The basement floor of B Tower, Seibu Department Store Shibuya
Number of Panorama Spots: 15 (as of October 2013)
Number of Shops: 11 Brands and 4 Promotional Spaces
Panorama Virtual Shop of Kintetsu Abeno Harukas
2013年10月
24th October 2013
Kadinche Corporation
Announcing a New Panorama Virtual Shop of Kintetsu Department Store Abeno Harukas
Kintetsu department store announced that it has opened a new 360 degrees panorama virtual shop of Abeno Harukas on 24th October 2013. It opened some of the areas in August but it now has about 50 panorama photos in the virtual shop.
Overview:
Abeno Harukas is the new flagship store of Kintetsu department store. The new panorama virtual shop covers Abeno Food City located in the basement floor of tower building and it includes about 60 confectionary brands. The viewers can virtually visit the shop and look around their favorite shops. The content is utilized as a effective tool for omni-channel marketing and online to offline tool.
Future Expansion:
Abeno Harukas building opens its floor gradually and the store is planning to open panorama virtual stores of the 6th & 8th floor of wing tower in December 2013. The contents is created and hosted by PanoPlaza, a cloud platform for panorama virtual shops.
URL: http://abenoharukas.d-kintetsu.co.jp/special/virtual_shop/
Target: The basement floor of Tower Building, Kintetsu Department Store Abeno Harukas
Number of Panorama Spots: 50 (as of October 2013)
Number of Shops: About 60 Brands & Shops
Panoramas of Panauti & Nagarkot, Nepal
2013年9月
I had a chance to visit Nepal and could shoot both panorama photos and panorama movie as below.
Panorama Virtual Tour of Panauti
Panauti is located at 36km south east of Kathmandu the capital of Nepal. The town is known as one of the oldest town in Nepal and has the oldest temple named Indreswor temple.
Panorama Time-lapse Movie of Nagarkot
Nagarkot is famous for its view of Himalayan range. Although it was cloudy day we could shoot panorama time-lapse movie from the Space Mountain Hotel, Nagarkot.
soko aoki
Panorama Virtual Tours of Kyoto Imperial Palace, Sento Imperial Palace, Katsura Imperial Villa, & Shugakuin Imperial Villa
2013年9月
We could luckily take panorama photos of Kyoto Imperial Palace, Sento Imperial Palace, Katsura Imperial Villa, & Shugakuin Imperial Villa in summer. Please enjoy Japanese beauty by clicking each thumbnail photo. For more details about these places, please visit the website of the Imperial Household Agency.
Kyoto Imperial Palace
Rich in tradition, Kyoto Imperial Palace preserves the look and ambiance of the Palace as it had been in the time of Japan’s ancient imperial dynasties. The current Palace was rebuilt in 1855 and comprises several structures–including the Shisinden, the Seiryoden, the Kogosyo, the Ogakumonjyo, and the Otsunegoten–that reflect the architectural styles of various periods. (according to the website of the Imperial Household Agency)
Sento Imperial Palace
Sento Imperial Palace was built on the occasion of the Emperor Gomizunoo’s retirement at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Although the palace itself was lost to fire in 1854 and was not subsequently reconstructed, its gardens and teahouses remain. (according to the website of the Imperial Household Agency)
Katsura Imperial Villa
Constructed during the early and mid-seventeenth century by Toshihito Shinno and Toshitada Shinno, the first and second generations of the Hachijo-no-Miya family, Katsura Imperial Villa features what is said to be the most beautiful Japanese garden. (according to the website of the Imperial Household Agency)
Shugakuin Imperial Villa
Constructed by the order of the Emperor Gomizunoo in the mid-seventeenth century, Shugakuin Imperial Villa consists of three villas (Lower, Middle, and Upper). Its incorporation of the surrounding natural scenery into the garden design is typical of Japanese architecture. (according to the website of the Imperial Household Agency)
Panoplaza partners with Stores.jp
2013年7月
PanoPlaza for Retail Stores in Stores.jp
Kadinche announces that Bracket Inc of Tokyo Japan adopted Panoplaza to create their users’ panorama virtual stores on their web service Stores.jp. Panoplaza is an online tool to create panorama virtual store.
Bracket Inc is Tokyo based Internet service company operating E-Commerce platform called Stores.jp especially for small retail business. The users of Stores.jp can easily create online stores in a few minutes by using intuitive user interface. The number of stores on Stores.jp exceeds 30,000 in April 2013 and it is still increasing rapidly.
Users of Stores.jp can have panorama virtual stores
Collaboration between Panoplaza and Stores.jp let users of Stores.jp have panorama virtual stores on their online stores. Visitors of stores can enjoy virtual shopping by looking and going around 360 degrees of stores. Owners of stores can expect online to offline (020) effect since customers would visit their stores physically after seeing panorama views on the website. Owners of stores can apply for the panorama virtual stores service through Stores.jp website.
Company Name: Bracket Inc
Address: 1-17-1 Shibuya Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan
URL: https://stores.jp/virtual
Presentation at IVRPA ICELAND 2013
2013年4月
Kadinche is working on panorama photograph technology & service with the help of many developers and software tools all over the world. Because we are always helped by these experienced developers and photographers, we wanted to return the courtesy to this panorama photography society. Therefore we decided to participate in International VR Photography Association’s (IVRPA) annual conference called ICELAND 2013 and share our experience working on panorama virtual shops and events mainly in Japan.
ICELAND 2013: The International Panoramic Photography Conference
Date：10th – 16th June 2013
Venue：Hotel Selfoss, Selfoss, Iceland
Web：http://www.iceland2013.org/
Hosted by：IVRPA (International VR Photography Association)
Title of our presentation is “PANOPLAZA: CLOUD TOOL FOR PANORAMA VIRTUAL SHOP & EVENT” and the abstract of our presentation is as follows.
Soko Aoki will share his experience utilizing the panorama virtual tour for E-Commerce, Events, and general virtual tours and discuss the future vision of space expression technology.
Panoplaza is a panorama virtual shop editing tool implemented on cloud computing platform by Kadinche corporation Tokyo Japan.
Users are able to upload not only panorama photos but also merchandise information to create online virtual shop. These users can easily make tags on items in their virtual shop. Panoplaza has been hosting Japanese major department stores’ virtual shops such as Daimaru, Isetan, and Tokyu.
Clients of Panoplaza use the system for both E-Commerce’s interactive contents and O2O (Online to Offline) marketing tool. There are several features which solve these clients’ needs such as keyword search, access analysis, and downloadable e-book format.
Panoplaza received Microsoft Innovation Award 2011 (Japan), Tablet Solution Award 2012 (Japan) and Open Web Asia Awards 2012 (Asia)
We are looking forward to seeing many panorama developers from all over the world. We will be happy to share and learn with & from the others.
BrowseWell: Panorama Virtual Shop in North America
2013年4月
Panplaza Goes Global
Since we started our panorama virtual shop service as Panoplaza in 2011, we aggressively presented our service in many international events such as Startup Asia 2012 & Echelon 2012 in Singapore, Open Web Asia 2012 in China, and ICT Spring 2012 in Luxembourg. Many technology and marketing media covered about Panoplaza and we were happy to receive feedbacks from all over the world.
Announcing BrowseWell in North America
We are glad to announce our partnership with BrowseWell LLC which is based in Dallas, Texas, USA. BroweWell will provide panorama virtual shop service in the USA, Canada, and Mexico. Here is the brief description of BrowseWell from their website.
BrowseWell was founded in 2012 with the goal of providing innovative enhancements to the status quo of web browsing. In particular, BrowseWell focuses on leveraging new technology to create an experience that is visually stunning and fully interactive. BrowseWell can help your business stand out from the crowd of flat, boring websites. BrowseWell gives online consumers the ability to enter their favorite stores anytime, anyplace, with any internet-ready device in order to shop, tag, and discover items in an intuitive way that mimics a real-life shopping experience. Consumers are no longer required to use their imagination to see a product in a real, navigable space. Don’t just browse, BrowseWell.
Company Name: BrowseWell, LLC
Address: 2517 Manana Dr. Dallas, TX 75220, USA
Tel: Tel 214-814-0667
E-mail: info@browsewell.com
URL: http://www.browsewell.com/
Please have a visit at BrowseWell website where they have the first client case furniture showroom Cantoni. They will be happy to discuss with you!
PanoPlaza for Store Management in Don Quijote Co.,Ltd
2013年3月
Press Release
6th March 2013
Kadinche Corporation
PanoPlaza for Store Management in Don Quijote Co.,Ltd
– Sharing Virtualized Store on the Intranet –
Kadinche corp. announces that discount chain store Don Quijote Co.,Ltd. adopted PanoPlaza to share panorama virtual shops on their intranet.
Background:
Don Quijote is famous for its store design and display with full of merchandises. Conventionally when the new store opens or the store’s interior changes staffs from the headquarter and other stores needed to visit each store to share the know-how of merchandise shelves. Since Don Quijote has hundreds of stores all over Japan and it’s difficult for them to go around all the stores.
Solution:
With PanoPlaza they have constructed a framework to check stores on line. They are using one shot panorama camera and upload panorama photos to PanoPlaza. Then they create panorama virtual tours of their shops and share them within their group or their company. This framework shortens the time of sharing newly opened store’s display environment and reduced the cost of store management and transportation.
Outcome:
Since April 2012 when Don Quijote started to use PanoPlaza, about 600 panorama photos in 21 stores have been uploaded on PanoPlaza. This covers 50,000 square meters of store area and speeds up intelligence sharing within the company.
Here are some articles on Panoplaza in English. Please check them and let me know if you have any comments or questions.
Many members of Kadinche had read Chris Anderson’s book titled “Makers: The New Industrial Revolution“. The book is saying that our world will be changed by the makers with 3D printers and other 3D objects creating devices.
Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communications, leading to a massive increase in the range of participation in everything digital – the world of bits. Now the same is happening to manufacturing – the world of things. Chris Anderson, bestselling author of “The Long Tail”, explains how this is happening: how such technologies as 3D printing and electronics assembly are becoming available to everybody, and how people are building successful businesses as a result. Whereas once every aspiring entrepreneur needed the support of a major manufacturer, now anybody with a smart idea and a little expertise can make their ideas a reality. The next industrial revolution is on its way.
Yes we too are quiet exciting about this makers movement. And actually our CTO purchased one 3D printer, Makerbot’s Replicator2.
3D Printer: Makerbot Replicator2
You can feel the future by seeing how the 3D printer works. This printer’s print technology is fused filament fabrication and it creates plastic object with single color. There is so many better and more expensive 3D printing devices in the world but this printer is good enough for us to create some prototype objects. For most of palm-size objects, it takes about an hour to print it out.
Creating Camera Mounter by 3D Printer
So what should we create first by using this future machine? Because we are the company currently working on panorama photo contents, our CTO created the camera mounter for small DSLR Sony NEX-5. This camera mounter help us going for casual photo shooting with its lightness. To design this 3D shape, he used free CAD software called OpenSCAD.
Business in 3D Printer Era
We actually shoot panorama photos and succeeded taking stable photos with this self-made camera mounter. You wanna purchase one for you? Please contact us from Contact Page so that we can discuss about price and shipment!
It’s so interesting to think about the business model using 3D objects. It’s good idea to create and sell niche objects to realize the long tail marketing of real objects. And it’s also good idea to create web platform on which users can share their 3D models. Let’s enjoy this self made 3D objects era!
