This looks really cool, and a new way to experience photography. I saw this demo'd at Microsoft MGB about three years ago and it wowed the audience.  Looks a bit time consuming, but an amazingly cool way to create 3D experiences, movie experiences, but built from multiple shots of a single subject. It's very interactive, and allows the viewer to tilt, pan, zoom and walk around the image. 

Only bummer is that the viewer has to download an app, which is going to be hard to get friends and family to make that time investment

Going to try and get time to create a couple next weekend. 

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Just got back from ten days in Bhutan. 

Bhutan, is sandwiched between two giants - India and China Tibet - and one of the many many surprising things about Bhutan, is how it has managed to survive without being overrun by one of its superpower neighbours.   Everything about the place is magical, with the possible exception of the food.  

Just getting there is like no other experience in the world.  Only six pilots are qualified to pilot the two Druk Airbus jets into Paro.  After departing Bangladesh, and flying portside of Everest, the plane makes a spectacular approach, weaving between mountain peaks to land in a lush, but extremely narrow valley. 

The country is magnificent, it's been described as an Asian Switzerland, though last time I visited there, Switzerland did not have clumps of Cannabis growing everywhere, and chilies spread out to dry on every available square inch of roof space.  It does share wonderful mountain vistas, and valleys filled with seemingly idyllic pastoral life, that has not changed much for hundreds of years. 

Famously, Bhutan only permitted TV in 1999, and it measures quality of life by Gross National Happiness.  Judging by the warm smiling welcome you receive everywhere, they're doing pretty well.  Everyone wears national traditional dress until 6pm in the evening, and the country is full of breathtaking temple fortresses called Dzongs, many still in tact from the 15th century. 

Exceptionally Buddhist, the Kingdom is stuffed full of Buddha relics, with the second Buddha especially venerated.  We were fortunate to see an elaborate and dazzling colourful festival at a monastery, where for four days elaborately costumed Bhutanese dance out a kind of opera, and receive blessings from a particularly frightening manifestation of Buddha (pictured above).

More photos from this spectacular country are in the gallery