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Hi,

Now that the second user meeting is over and that everything has been disclosed, let make Autopano 2.0 feature list clear as well as the road map.
I will just highlight quickly main feature here, because we will post soon the full sub-titled video of APP 2.0 presentation. Anyway.

Quickly. Autopano 2.0 is targeted to be more easy, more powerful, more control. This will decline itself into several new features as well as redesigned engine.
This is a short list :
- Plugins architecture engine ( input, output, importer ... )
- Revamp detection engine to be able to handle template panorama, bracketing far better as well as direct support to motorized panorama head ( gigapan, rodeon, pixorb, merlin )
- Full multi-core detection
- Stack notion at group level : it regroups together bracketed images in a stack at group level to handle them cleverly for detection
- GPU processing at every level for a real time panorama editor at full resolution
- Revamp of settings of the full software which simplify and clears a lot the software
- New HDR engine
- Projection engine changed : far better planar mode as well as easy new projection integration ( mercator integrated for example )
- KRPano collaboration. We signed an collaboration with Klaus Reinfeld to integrate a direct KRPano export in autopano. You can edit hotspots, lens flar, directly in the editor. But we will also collaborate a lot to make the best flash panorama viewer of KRPano. For VR, for small size landscape as well as gigapixels panorama ( with HDView projection technics ). KRPano official forum in english will be part of the autopano forum with a new forum / subforum, moderated directly by Klaus.

Autopano brand will be separated into 2 versions :
- Autopano Pro, for casual user, prosumer, landscape photographer : always 99 euros
- Autopano Giga, for professional which needs more a workflow tool : targeted price 199 euros
The exact feature list of both version will be explained with alpha 1.

Plan :
- There will be 3 alpha series probably ( alpha : means all feature not implemented ).
First one is planned 10 July. Many features have already been done so, expect this one to be a big release
- alpha 2 and alpha : September, October.

Beta series : October, November

Release date : December.