Comments on: How Host Your Own Virtual Tours

By: Cherie Irwin

Cherie Irwin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:12:25 +0000

Funny! Somehow, I should have known that I catch some flack for my choice in computers. I’ll leave that alone, though I would love to give you a lengthy explanation.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:12:45 +0000

: ) LOL Aaron. I think I’ve heard about that computer company too.

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:33:49 +0000

Yes, I’m on my way back to Apple after 10 years of Windows. The prospect of Vista pushed me over the edge.

By: aaronleitz

aaronleitz — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:05:28 +0000

You guys may want to look in to this computer company I just came across…
It seems like they make pretty good stuff.

By: Cherie Irwin

Cherie Irwin — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:54:18 +0000

I’ve been to Sun’s website loads of times looking for something that will work. However, if there is a patch or some other detail that I’m overlooking, it is not an obvious one. I downloaded the latest version. Uninstalled it, reinstalled in several attempts to make it work. However, it just does not. I’ll read the article that you reference when I have a bit of time later, and I will let you know if it provides the answer that I need.

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:49:27 +0000

I just noticed that the link above and all other info that I can find on the net are from late 2006 before Vista was released. If you have Vista you might want to download Sun’s latest version of Java from http://www.java.com so you have the very latest one. Sun may have fixed some Vista issues since Vista was shipped.

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:03:02 +0000

I just Googled “Java on Vista” and found this reference that claims that in fact Java works:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2006/10/java_on_vista_y.html

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:56:40 +0000

There’s been a long dark legal history between Microsoft and Sun (inventor an promoters of Java). The courts ruled that Microsoft must distribute Java (at least in WinXP… I don’t know if the ruling extends to Vista) and it must be Sun’s official version of Java. As a result the word “Java” at Microsoft is a 4 letter word.

I discovered back when the Microsoft/Sun legal battle over Java was raging that our many of our clients that were Microsoft employees didn’t have Java loaded on their PCs and were not about to load it. This was when I started to use Flash as a display technology. Many tour providers provide an alternative between Flash and Java and sometimes QuickTime.

By: Cherie Irwin

Cherie Irwin — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:37:57 +0000

I’m beginning to see the benefits of Flash over Java, more than ever before. I just bought a new laptop, and I opted for a PC over a Mac due to cost and availability at the time. The laptop that I had been working on was a PC, and I needed something that would work with several of the software programs that I had been using.

That being said, the laptop that I purchased runs on the new Windows Vista OS. The problem: JAVA doesn’t run on Vista, or at least, not yet. Worse, many of the software programs that are available for building tours are not supported on Vista. Meaning, that Vista is a bad idea for RE photographers & tour providers, at least until all of the software vendors update their programs or provide a patch so that their software will run on Vista.

I can’t tell you how frustrating it is when I simply cannot view a simple tour.

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:30:38 +0000

Aaron,
The reason you GUI looks different than mine is that mine is one that was the first one released about a year or more ago. I haven’t got around to upgrading mine to the new version that is in the purchased Immervision that has Flash.