Amazing it took so long really. I did some photography work with them in the late 90s in return for kit and free software\/keys\/etc. We also made some 360 degree video in 2000 (I need to dig that out sometime as it was quite cool)<\/p>\n
They could have been great if they’d not sought to try and charge to “develop” every-single-photo, which was insane, very annoying and throttled their business – and they harshly<\/a> protected their “patent” on the stitching of 2 fish-eye photos (which was just laughable by anyone with a maths background – really. nonsense). I tried, but failed, to convince them to change… money getting in the way of making money again.<\/p>\n Just as bad was the cash-burn, I looked at their annual accounts a few times and it was clearly a dot-com play that lucked out for a bit too long and took a while to burn out.<\/p>\n Oddly, the Ipix<\/a> site seems unaffected and doesn’t even mention the news… although in other news<\/a>, it looks like the controversy is continuing around their patents.<\/p>\n