Ok, I have also posted an example in PovRay.binaries.images.  I  used
solidThinking which has a plugin that renders straight into this the VR
mode.

Mike Norton
http://www.jps.net/manorton/3d

Mike Norton wrote in message <362f6649.0@news.povray.org>...
>Just curious Thorsten.
>
>You said you could not see it, then how do you know if QTVr is faster?
Hmm?
>
>Just curious, Im going to post an image done with QTVr if no one else has
>done it.  solidThinking now lets you output to the VR format.
>
>Have a great day.
>
>BTW, im not a Mac user, and never will be :-)
>
>Mike Norton
>NT
>
>Thorsten Froehlich wrote in message <362e124b.0@news.povray.org>...
>>In article <362ed33e.12121109@news.povray.org> ,
new### [at] DESPAMpovrayorg
>(povray.org admin team) wrote:
>>>It will probably only work in IE (when I tried Netscape, it failed to get
>the
>>>plugin).
>>>
>>>  http://www.expedia.com/daily/fullcircle/australia/surround.hts
>>>
>>>I'd really like to see if we could implement some sort of viewer that
>would
>>>allow us to do a similar thing with a POV-Ray rendering ;)
>>>
>>>After all, the input image is probably just a large 360 degree strip made
>with
>>>one of those special cameras. With the appropriate rendering it should be
>>>possible to do the same thing with a plugin (perhaps not that one since
>it's
>>>likely to be Microsoft proprietary).
>>
>>I cannot see it (Mac and Netscape), but if it is a simple 360 degree
>panorama, and possibly you can zoom in and out, it plays videos somewhere
>inside etc. and when its name is NetShow it is a simple QuickTimwe VR
clone.
>Apple has integrated QuickTime VR into QuickTime 3 which is available for
>Mac and Windows, is faster and has a much better quality.
>>
>>
>>    Thorsten
>>
>>PS:  For those who do not know QuickTime (or even Apple), you can get it
at
>http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ for free and see example of QT3 at
>http://www.apple.com/quicktime/samples/index.html. BTW, this VR technology
>is now nearly four years old!  For a details see e.g. the SIGGRAPH 95
>proceedings book.
>>
>>____________________________________________________
>>Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
>>e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom
>>
>>I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
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>>
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