Panorama + grid-frequency hum = a forgery cost that is multiplicative, not additive.
A panorama is usually treated as a wide photograph — a luxury of extra width. PanoVR treats the width as evidence. Preserve the whole strip, bind it to the one signal in the room that nobody controls — the electrical grid's frequency — and you get a record whose forgery cost compounds instead of adding. Six short explainers below.
Defeat one and the forgery fails. The costs don't add — they multiply.
After Ford Fest at Thomson Memorial Park on June 19, 2026, Ontario PC government officials posted an aerial photo of the crowd. The Toronto Star reported it appears to have been edited — protesters near the stage made to read as part of the supporter crowd. The tell that surfaced it: the picture showed blue balloons, while a reporter on the ground recalled seeing only purple and pink.
A crop can hide the dissent; a paint-over can manufacture the consent. Here it took one reporter's memory of a balloon to break the frame. The whole strip and the grid's hum would have carried that proof inside the photo — no memory required.