A high definition image is created by stitching or joining  lot of small images meaning if you want to cover huge details of a large area, you create snapshots of different parts of it and then stitch together. This helps when you want to zoom a particular area or want to the whole image in 3d view.

HD View is an image viewer to aid in the display of very large images. Advances in techniques for stitching digital images together has led to the creation of images of gigapixel size. Many of these images are panoramic or in full 360 degree fields of view. Via Wikipedia

We talked about Image Composite Editor which lets you create HD view but what if you want to view these images in the browser ? For this HD view has come up with addons or extension for both IE and FF which lets you view any High Definition Image. You can interact with the image by zooming, rotating and 3d view.

Viewing HD images in IE and FF

You can install this add on from :

• HD view IE Addon
• HD view FF addon

To make sure you had it installed you can visit one of the HD view image .