Comments on: PangeaVR Viewer Brings 360 Tours to iPhone

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:41:17 +0000

I was hoping to use my iPad as a field marketing tool. I have a TabletPC, but by the time you turn it on, loads windows and find the file the customer or potential customer is already 3/4 through a yawn.

It seems the iPad isn’t that useful for many things except browsing 1/4 of the internet, sending a quick email, or checking your facebook page (providing you have a wireless connection or subscribe to 3G). by the time Apple comes up with a way to make this extremely useful, my iPad will be already outdated and Apple will try to sell me the latest and greatest. You can’t view flash websites and there is no quicktime for iPad. I have to jump through many hoops just to try to get anything working on this thing, I guess waiting for windows to load on a tablet looks like the better way to go.

By: larry

larry — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:19:52 +0000

@Joe- I would submit that viewing 360′s in an APP is not a useful approach to viewing 360s. What anyone that creates 306′s wants to do is put them on a website and view them on the site. This approach is possible if 360 viewing is done via Javascript and/or HTML5 but the later still is not supported in all browsers.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:36:48 +0000

Your 360 works well on the iPhone, but viewing it on the iPad does not work. I checked with the Pangea website, and it seems they have a version for the iPad but it costs $15 for the app. I don’t think customers will pay the $15 just to view the 360. They should have a free viewer for the iPad

By: JR

JR — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:56:51 +0000

Larry,
Thanks for the correction. I will try it again.

By: JR

JR — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:30:41 +0000

Alan,
I never said that it’s Apple’s Fault. All I am saying is that the Flash issue should have been resolved between Adobe and Apple…
http://www.macworld.com/article/132568/2008/03/flashiphone.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/132594/2008/03/flashiphone.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/134065/2008/06/sprout.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/132594/2008/03/flashiphone.html

Moreover, all my Macs are Intel-Based Macs, so I am not concerned about Flash speed either way. But I have seen Flash on my previous PowerMacs (including my previous PBG4) based macs and I did not have any speed problem. You should consider adding more memory… Flash shouldn’t crawl on a PBG4.

However, in order to stay within this topic, I have seen real estate virtual tour loaded on the iPhone far more comfortably with Tourfactory.
http://www.tourfactory.com/
Thus eliminating the need for Flash as far as downloading a virtual tour on the iPhone.

By: Alan Pinstein

Alan Pinstein — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:46:39 +0000

Jobs never said that Flash was too BIG, he said it was too SLOW. And it probably is… Flash videos and panos barely play on my PBG4 which has a 1.5GHz processor. The iPhone’s processor I about 650MHz.

I am not sure why Flash is so slow, but it is… this is not Apple’s fault.

By: larry

larry — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:41:53 +0000

JR- The spelling is correct. You need to enter the “http://” prefix. I added that above.

By: JR

JR — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:25:27 +0000

I have tried and I could not download you Virtual Tour. I have also double-checked the spelling!
I agree with you that I find it impractical. Steve Jobs has something stuck in his anatomy about Flash claiming that it’s too BIG of a file. Latest substantiated story is that something is in the works from both: Apple and Adobe. There seems to be a Cat & Mouse game between Apple & Adobe….
I wish they would do something fast given that how much Steve claims his love for the NY Times website and yet, NYT has nothing but Flash Videos and nothing based on QuickTime. Imagine that?!
Maybe, it’s a QT/Flash retrofit thing in the works??!?!?!?!?