To the best of my recollection, Apple started selling MPW based QTVR
for about $2000 in January or February 1995 and lowered the price to
about $600 sometime in the summer or fall of 1995. I bought in the
Fall of 1995.
However QTVR was in Beta at Apple the previous year and was actually
initially developed earlier by a third party named Eric Chen who went
to work for Apple in 93 or 94, I think.
Students in the MIT Media Lab, William Donalson and a few others
(even me) had developed photographicVR projects prior to QTVR's
initial release, but I think we all gave up our home brewed
technologies & switched to QTVR as soon as we could. Most of these
projects were either HyperCard, SuperCard or Director based. My
initial project was SuperCard based and used QuickTime for efficient
image storage, retrieval, display & compression. QTVR came out right
after I had spent about a year developing that 6 pano tour. I thought
I had something original. Oh well.
I first saw Omniview's 'Photobubbles' at SIGGRAPH in 1996 and they
were claiming at the time that they had been doing bubbles for years.
Omniview eventually became iPIX.
to the best of my recollection,
Ray Broussard
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