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Originally posted on 7 May ’07 @ 2:15 am

18 National Day Parades
Opened July 1973
Seating Capacity 55,416
Parking capacity for 4278 cars, 110 motorcycles, 4 handicapped lots and 69 lorries

Originally posted on 7 May ’07 @ 2:11 am

You turn on your shiny kandao VR Qoocam and there’s a firmware update.

When you’re trying to update your Kandao VR Qoocam or Qoocam 8k, you are getting an error.

Camera’s battery is lower than 50%. Please charge camera and try again.

However, your camera’s battery is above 100%. It won’t matter even if it is plugged into a socket and charging. The error will not go away. Kandao VR was kind enough to reply to us on Instagram when we posted the problem with the following.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ai4CYQJ0ryg7goQfWzC4HB-eckby6Q?e=5TS0bl

Workflows are as below:
1. Copy the firmware (update.bin) file into SD card’s root directory.

2. Insert the sd card into QooCam when QooCam is turned off

3. turn on QooCam, the power light would flashes for about 2 minutes (do not do any operations to Qoocam when the light is flashing).

4. QooCam will automatically turn off when the update is finished.

The firmware update.bin file do not need to be deleted manually. You can turn on the Qoocam back on and check the firmware version. It is version 70 as of Aug 2020.

For the Qoocam 8K, manual way is:

Make sure the camera power is> 50%, get a Micro SD card (≤32G)
1. Format the card into FAT32 format
2. Insert the external SD card to QooCam 8K camera
3. Connect camera with PC via type C to USB cable4. Start camera, swipe down to find setting page and select Mass USB storage in USB options
5. Find and open the external card driver in PC
6. Download the attached firmware file and unzip it, copy the folder “update” in the root directory of external SD card.
7.Disconnect camera and PC.
8.Camera off, press and hold camera shutter button, and then press the power button, when camera indicator light flashes, release buttons.
9. Wait until the indicator light stops flashing , then hold the power button to turn on the camera.

Hope it was helpful!

Walked all the way from Bugis to take this…

Originally posted on 5 May ’07 @ 12:04 am

Added with Google Maps (dev version) and visited view bar.

The newly Mega of Megastores. Under ERS’s Warehouse Retails Scheme, the 3 companies, Giant, Ikano (which operates IKEA) and Giant (The supermarket well, giant owned by Hong Kong’s Dairy Farm Group ) have their retails and warehousing consolidated here.

Fun Facts I gathered…

Courts Megastore – 280,000 sq ft including 116,000 sq ft is solely dedicated to retail.
– In Singapore Since 1974 and has 10 stores.
– Opened on 13 Dec 2006
– Cost 80 million SGD
– http://www.courts.com.sg

IKEA – 387,500 sq ft
– In Singapore Since 1978 and has 2 stores.
– 40,000 visitors on opening day, 20,000 on avege day and 22,000 visitors to IKEA Alexandra (the great tasting meat balls and chicken wings must have a part of the reason why!)
– Opened 30 Nov 2006
– Cost 125 million SGD
– http://www.ikea.com.sg/

Giant – 139,000 sq ft
– Opened on 14 March 2007
– Has 62,000 products! Comparision, Vivocity’s branch has 55,000.
– Car park space of 740, free of charge
– www.dairyfarmgroup.com

Originally posted on 3 May ’07 @ 12:11 am

My Block repainted with new color scheme. At night…

First pano taken using my Sigma 18 – 200 @ 18mm throughout. More photos needed but it works. Same settings with the Nodal Ninja 3. No need to change anything on the rails at all, that’s over Rail 41 and Upper Rails 93, in case you’re interested.

If the weather is good tomorrow, a 360 pano I have been thinking of..

Originally posted on 2 May ’07 @ 3:12 am

Let’s first understand why a virtual tour is a great way for your business. In a Quantitative market research conducted in July 2015 by an independent market research firm study of over 1200 subjects, it is discovered:

…with photos and a virtual tour are twice as likely to generate interest.

It gives potential visitors a chance to take a look at the beautiful space they will be encountering before they visit. It is especially useful for hotels, restaurants, museums etc where ambiance and the surroundings will make the client see, virtually, before visiting and return a higher chance of a booking.

99% of Millennials search on online websites compared to 89% of Older Boomers and 77% of the Silent Generation

The National Association of Realtors has also found 99% of Millennials search on online websites compared to 89% of Older Boomers and 77% of the Silent Generation number of home buyers search the Internet before making purchase and 50% of them all find virtual tours useful before making their decisions.

Facebook has allow the ease of posting 360 panoramas since 2016 and a study has shown that outside of Real Estate, 63% of travel company pages posted at least one 360 videos or photo in 2016. The automotive industry wasn’t far behind with 54% of company pages publishing 360-degree posts. The fashion and beauty industry however, had the lowest adoption rate, as only 10% published at least one 360-degree post. Social Bakers also found that 360-degree photos were far more engaging on Facebook rather than typical photos and it’s easier than ever to do this with Facebook natively supporting posting of panoramas like any postings.

We’ll round off the why with this.

“Virtual tours keep people looking at a website 5 to 10 times longer.”

Check out www.pano.asia for our commercial VR Tour creation.

The back of the memorial, one of the big trees.

One of the many wall of names at the memorial.

View from the front.

The Front Entrance.

Front View again, Big Cross.

It’s a really nice place to be. The Kranji War Memorial.

For the brave who has given their life so that men can live free.

From here on, all 360 Panos are done using my new Nodal Ninja 3. It’s a lot better! For those interested, with a Canon 350D fitted with a 10-20 Sigma, upper rail is 93 and lower rail is 41 for the nodal point/ entrance pupil.

Originally posted on 30 Apr ’07 @ 9:44 pm

Gotten beta versions of Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 and relooked at one of the more dull pano I have, the Millenia Tower one and applied some preset effect (Darktone +105) in Lightroom then used CS3, adjusted some Levels and here’s a more interesting 360 Pano. Then applied noise ninja, as you can see, with my Canon 350D at ISO 1600, the panos are rather noisy… all took 10 mins. They’re some kick arse products!

Originally posted on 25 Apr ’07 @ 10:55 pm

Here’s the same Pano of one of the Clarke Quay shot I like quite a bit applied with Orton Effect.

Originally posted on 24 Apr ’07 @ 3:52 am

Millenia Tower

Fountain in Tungsten WB.

Fountain in Auto WB.

Originally posted on 22 Apr ’07 @ 11:17 pm

This is a totally different looking when night falls. Here’s beautiful Clarke Quay.

Originally posted on 22 Apr ’07 @ 1:38 am

The last Pano from Sentosa’s trip. From one of the towers at the Southern most tip.

Originally posted on 19 Apr ’07 @ 1:22 am

Images of Singapore.

The Merlion on Sentosa.

Rasa Sentosa Room 951.

The Southern Most point of South East Asia

Here’s the rest of the pano shots.

Originally posted on 18 Apr ’07 @ 4:49 pm

A short holiday from work to relax at Rasa Sentosa Resort, Sentosa. A full screen no nonsense pano comparing it to the one on the official Rasa Sentosa Resort websit. The photographer who took it cheated! Using a Sentosa logo to cover the nadir (bottom image where the tripod will be) so as to do lesser editing work and using Java will cause problem which I will not go through here. Enjoy this pano. The official Rasa Sentosa’s ones are here.

Originally posted on 18 Apr ’07 @ 4:39 pm

The Botanic Gardens series of Panos. Good weather for a while before heavy rain hits around this area.

Originally posted on 15 Apr ’07 @ 11:26 pm

Went back to have this taken and done up.

Originally posted on 15 Apr ’07 @ 4:10 am

“Rule #45238973, always hold on tight to your tripod and guard it with your life when taking Pano.” I was taking a pano right in front of the Merlion when some tourist accidently kicked my tripod. ISO1600 f/4 and at 1/10 sec, I thought, should be ok. WRONG WRONG WRONG! “Rule #7450965832, always retake when not sure!” It caused motion blur and there’s no way to have a nice pano. It’s ok, good reason to revisit Merlion for another Pano shoot soon. So here’s the Civilisation Museum and Anderson Bridge for now.

It was quite a fun trip today. Saw many photographers (some are in the pano) when I was taking the first Civilisation Museum pano shot. They should know or they’re thinking again, “why taking photo of the floor?” – now you know.

Originally posted on 13 Apr ’07 @ 12:26 am

Needed to relax after a hard day’s work and what better ways to be doing that than taking PANO and some perspiring walking. Here’s Cavenagh Bridge and Fountain Square located near China Square Central. Both about 15 minutes walk from my office.

Originally posted on 12 Apr ’07 @ 12:15 am

Been a long time since I’ve been in a playground. I mean, actually climbing the ladders and be in it! Took 2 Pano of the same playground.

Another playground area at Blk 987D Jurong West.

Finally, a small but long park opposite my blocks. Hidden behind the coffeeshop. A nice place.

Originally posted on 10 Apr ’07 @ 10:00 pm

Right here in Singapore!

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