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.

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e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom

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glad you said it first. :)

-mark r

(mac and netscape as well)

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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.
>Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://www.povray.org
>

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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.
>>Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://www.povray.org
>>
>
>

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