We still use QTVR for some interactive kiosks
that we build, but most of our investment and
work is via the Java applet "PTviewer". This is
really a fantastically small, and
extraordinarilly capable Immersive VR tool.
I am amazed at the wide range of options and
functionality, and the very (VERY) good panning
speeds and image quality you see, especially on
PCs (due to optimised Java engine there).
As for Flash, it is still very slow at panning,
and it's range of functionality is more limited,
but also more expandable for the future.
Apple thought that QTVR would take them places,
but they failed to drive the technology, and just
let it idle. Too bad.
At one time, we were working on a QTVR filter
that would do a variety of stereoscopic
presentation modes (not Red-Green anaglyph) for
some very good display systems. But lack of
support and interest from Apple pretty much
killed that off. Again, too bad.
And Apple keeps breaking bits of QTVR, slowly but
surely, and Macromedia/Adobe are STILL running
the QT 3 (3!) Xtra in Director, sigh.
Oh, well. We're now starting to build our own system for mobile phones...
Cheers
William
At 12:09 pm -0700 28.03.08, email@hidden wrote:
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:24:30 +0000
From: Douglas Cape <email@hidden>
Subject: State of Quicktime VR
To: email@hidden
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I am writing about the sorry state of Quicktime VR, and its slow but
steady depreciation by Apple. They just seem to have lost interest.
This is all the more galling since Apple effectively invented
interactive photography and in the past have been its greatest
promoters, as shown by the very name of this list.
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