GigaPan Systems was founded in 2008 as a collaborative project between Carnegie Mellon University and NASA’s Ames Research Center with support from Google.

The project has since grown into an independent company offering solutions for capturing gigapixel images. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigapan

• Robotic Camera Mounts: The EPIC series of robotic camera mounts can capture HD, gigapixel photos using almost any digital camera. By setting the upper left and lower right corners of the panorama desired, the EPIC works out how many photos the camera will need to take, and then automatically organizes them into rows or columns.
• GigaPan Stitch Software: GigaPan’s image stitching technology automatically combines the hundreds or thousands of images taken with a digital camera using the GigaPan EPIC series into a single image. The software is available for both Mac and Windows.
• GigaPan Viewer: Lets people view images on GigaPan.com or on a third-party website using the GigaPan free, standalone viewer application.
• GigaTag: Allows users to share photos and tag themselves on Facebook within the gigapixel images
They now make affordable DSLR mounts.