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.