This year, we will be shooting museums in Indonesia.

The long run goal of this project is to have an online website with simple information and attractive 360° virtual tour of museums in Indonesia. This way, everybody will have a “virtual access” to every single museum in Indonesia! Thus, in the end, everybody will realize that Indonesia has a lot of beautiful museums to be proud of! Not to mention the historical & cultural information we might get from the museums when we actually visit the museum.

The first museum we have finished its 360° virtual tour is Museum of The Asian-African Conference in Bandung.

Click on each respective museum logos at the end of this post and you’ll be redirected to its 360° virtual tour. Read the rest of this entry »

PictFest 2011 is an event organized by salingsilang.com in conjunction with kufoto.com and fX LifeStyle X’enter, starting December 9th to December 10th (that is today!).

PictFest is all about photography and also social media…to find out more about the event (and also the schedule) you can go to their official website at www.pictfest.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Last month, idVR360 got a great opportunity to travel to Lombok Island for 12 days. Collaborating with www.indonesiavirtual.com, we are assigned to capture some VR360° at many possible tourism spots.

Once we’re back in Jakarta, we started processing the frames and end up with 89 VR360°. We will share some of them here, but  the rest of the VR360°s are available at our other online portfolio page at 360cities. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of Canon Photo Marathon Asia 2011, this event is one of the biggest photo competition event in Indonesia. Other participating countries are Singapore, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia.

Canon Photo Marathon Indonesia 2011 took place in Yogyakarta (September 24th) and Jakarta (October 1st), and we are attending the Jakarta event. Managed by PT Datascrip as an exclusive distributor of Canon camera products, claimed that more than 3000 photographer, both from Yogyakarta and Jakarta, participated in this event . Besides photo competition, there are also some photography workshops conducted by professional photographers in Indonesia. Winners of the photo competition will receive, of course, Canon cameras, and tickets to Photo Clinic to Tasmania, Australia.

During the event, we managed to shots some pole panoramas at the location, which is Ancol Eco Park. This place is amazingly huge, even with 2500+ participants wandering around to get their best shots for the competition, there are still many areas un-explored by them. Below is 10 panoramas (out of 18) that we took using a 9 feet pole to get a ‘different perspective’ of the event. Read the rest of this entry »

On Saturday, August 13th 2011, there was a great event held at Fine Arts Theater building at Jakarta International School complex. This year is JIS 60th anniversary year, and quoting from Ariz Azis closing speech, this is the first time JIS open up its door for such public event! Read the rest of this entry »

Cycling community is booming in Indonesia. At first, Pasar Sepeda was an offline event, held for the first time at JPG Mountain Bike Park, the largest mountain bike track in Indonesia, on January 3rd 2010.

After several offline events, the domain PasarSepeda.net was first introduced on February 6th 2011.

Now, during the final phase of the portal development, we are commissioned to take some 360° photos of a bike shop, plus and a bike track (part of JPG Mountain Bike Park) known as “Roller Coaster” to be showcased at Pasar Sepeda portal. Read the rest of this entry »

@america is a cultural center, own and managed by US Embassy Jakarta, and they claimed to be the first and most high-tech U.S. cultural center in the world!

Located at One Pacific Place, 3rd floor, the center open for public from 10am – 9pm, 7 days a week, and they have lots of event/seminars/discussion/workshops covering a wide range of topics. For those whom plans to continue their study in United States of America, can also meet & have discussions with advisers from EducationUSA and get more detailed information. Read the rest of this entry »

Java Rockin’land is one amongst several music festival in Indonesia, organized by PT. Java Festival Production (founded by Peter Gontha). Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival and Jakarta International Java Soulnation are the other two renowned festivals held by the company.

For rock music enthusiast, JRL Festival is one event that you surely don’t want to skip! Held in the course of 3 days, the event was reportedly packed with so many people. Day 1 was accounted by over 10.000 visitors! Don’t have an actual number over Day 2 & 3, but Dewi Gontha, as the Producer of the event, targeted 60.000 visitors for the whole event.

Local & Internatinal rock band were listed, such as PAS band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Edane, God Bless, Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE, The Cranberries, Edane, Good Charlotte, Helloween, and a lot more of it!

We attend the event only at Day 2, and made some 360° panoramic shots of the concert. Power Slaves, Konspirasi, Kunci, God Bless, G-Pluck Beatles are some of the bands that we’ve had capture quite successfully. Unfortunately its not our luck to get a good capture during Ed Kowalczyk and The Cranberris performance. Read the rest of this entry »

A panorama taken at this height brings a lot of new challenges within the process, especially during capturing each frame. We need to familiarize with the pole which was constantly swinging.

This is our first panoramas taken with Nodal Ninja Fanotec Pole Series 1 combined with Ultimate R1 panoramic head. Read the rest of this entry »

This morning, we have the opportunity to take a group picture of Abang None Jakarta Barat 2011 at Kota Tua. The session was fun and challenging at the same time. Thanks to friends id-photographer community who has arrange the session and made this shot possible. Read the rest of this entry »