Comments on: 360VR Flash Player Implementations Compared to QuickTime

By: larry

larry — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:38:14 +0000

@Gregory,
I’d not seen this viewer before. Quality does look good. I agree it’s one of the best flash implementations if not the best I’ve seen.

Since I wrote this comparison post it has become clearer that the supporting software to get from a equirectangular or MOV file to the final web usable panorama it a big factor… FPP has nothing or very little in this area, Pano2VR has a nice GUI for PC and Mac and Immervision has a PC only GUI with very complicated supporting documentation. There is some work going on to build a GUI for working with FPP. I haven’t looked closely enough at krpano to understand what they have but for me this is a big factor.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:11:40 +0000

I am still trying to choose which player to buy, but I thought it’d be a good idea to add krpano at http://www.krpano.com into the mix. This is by far the player with the best image quality. It has a long list of features, but my favorite is the ability to zoom into a multi-resolution panorama and get more detail. Here is an example http://www.krpano.com/krpano.html?pano=panos/hafen/hafen.xml

Gregory

By: Rafe

Rafe — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:14:37 +0000

Thanks Everyone,

That’s been a huge help. Talking to actual people about it rather than plodding through thousands of diatribes from the software industry on how their software is wonderful is so much more helpful!

Cheers,

Rafe

By: Jeremy Meier

Jeremy Meier — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:55:42 +0000

Rafe,

Tour Weaver 3 offers quite a bit of customization as far as the interface, screen size, hotspots, and full-screen, but I think you have to get the Pano Weaver program to stitch. As I mentioned earlier here, I use the Panorama Factory 4.5 software, and I love it! It’s a little involved, but produces great results! heck out my link in my earlier comment if you want to see what a tour looks like. Just Dbl Click anywhere in the panorama image to toggle into full-screen mode.

By: Rafe

Rafe — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:03:07 +0000

That sounds like what I need - doesn’t stitch though?

Haha I just bought a Nikon D80 this morning, looks my wallet is about to take another hit…

Thanks Larry!

By: larry

larry — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:58:02 +0000

@Rafe,
See: http://www.easypano.com/tourweaver125.html

By: Rafe

Rafe — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:07:25 +0000

What customisation does TourWeaver offer? I’ve been looking for a solution where I can customise the user interface, loading screen, size (though most do this one), and also the ability to go into fullscreen.

Any ideas on this one?

-Rafe Copeland

By: Jeremy Meier

Jeremy Meier — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:34:11 +0000

Larry,
Actually, the stitching was done using Fanorama Factory 4.5. It is a really nice stitching program, mainly used for stitching “fine art” type scenic pano’s. I am not sure if TW’s is any better than it was when you tried the program as far as it’s stitching though…

- Jeremy Meier.

By: larry

larry — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:53:52 +0000

@Jeremy,
Your demo looks pretty good! I used Tourweaver several years ago when they first came out and end-up not upgrading after the second version because their stitching wasn’t very good… looks like they have improved it a lot.

By: Jeremy Meier

Jeremy Meier — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:58:28 +0000

I am not ur eif anyone is interested, but the program that I use is Tou Weaver 3, and it publishes in Flash or Java, but here is a link to a Flash tour that came out fairly good. the pics aren’t the best, as I was mainly testing the linking pano’s functionality of the prouct. This software is about $200, but it allows you to do a lot of custom stuff. Check out the tour beow, and note the way you can move around in it.

Flash Demo