Explanations & Definitions
Our 360° Panoramic Virtual Tours
allow
you to pan left and right with
a total view of 360°x115°.
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Our Spherical Panoramic
Virtual Tours
allow you to pan left, right, up,
and
down with a total view of 360°x180°.
Once you've created a 360° panoramic image by one row, or multiple row stitching several photos together, in either cylindrical, spherical or cubic projection using a Stitching Software, you need to load your panoramic picture in a Viewer. Any of the free available Viewers like QTVR-Player(Quick Time Virtual Reality), Java-Viewer or Helmut Dersch's free PTViewer will warp your image using the proper projection type, either cylindrical, spherical, or cubic projection. The Viewer gives you a "window" onto the scene (image) and let's you pan sideways, or in any direction, depending on the projection type. It creates an immersive visual effect as if you were really there, rather than seeing a more surreal 360° degree panoramic photograph.
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Apple's Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) is the most widely supported format for panoramic movies. There are two kind of formats, the QTVR 4 and the QTVR 5. The QTVR 4 is a cylindrical format and let's the user pan left and right only. The QTVR 5 format is a cubic format and let's you pan left, right, straight up, and down. To be able to view a QTVR movie you must have the Quick Time plug-in installed on your computer. You can easily download the QTVR-plug in at Apple's Website.
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What is a
Virtual Tour?
Let's
take Real Estate as an example
We create a panoramic image of every room in a home. Then all the panoramic images are linked together via hotspots ( example: a door can be clicked on and lead you to the next room, and so on). A visitor of your Virtual Tour can then follow the guided tour via hotspots, or access a particular room via a separate sidemap (floorplan).
Different Types of Panoramas
and Image
Stitching?
Planar
verus cylindrical, spherical, and cubic panorama
"Stitching" refers to the technique of using a computer to merge images together to create a large single image. When an image stitching program assembles pictures, it will warp them by applying a form of projection.
- flat and planar panorama projection:
conventional photographs are considered flat or planar, that means without any form of persperctive correction. A planar projection in a Viewer lets you pan left and right without the immersive feeling. You are looking onto a flat picture that's moving left and right. Use with rectilinear lenses without distortion (straight lines). - cylindrical panorama projection:
The most common format for panoramas is the cylinder. A cylindrical panorama is intented to be viewed as if curved around the inside of a cylinder. You can pan left and right with an immersive feeling as if you were insider the cylinder. Use with rectilinar lenses without distortion (straight lines) in the image.. - spherical (equirectangular) panorama projection:
A spherical panorama is intented to be viewed as if projected insider a sphere. You can pan left, right, straight up, and down with an immersive feeling as if you were inside a sphere. Use with ultra-wide 6-8mm fisheye lenses with a coverage of more than 180° or a 14-15mm wide angle lenses. When using fisheye lenses then it only takes two or three images to create a full spherical panorama (single row stitching). When using a wide angle lense then you need to add up and down shots. - cubic panorama projection:
Apple's QuickTime 5 made this format popular.Cubic images contain 6 separate cube faces, which are in themselves planar images, without any perspective distortion. You can pan left, right, straight up, and down. Cubic is the most efficient format, because each of the cube faces looks "normal". These images can be easier to edit or modify with image editing software because of no distortion.
- We can create the complete Virtual Tour
for you:
We will come to you and take all of the pictures, "stitch" the pictures
into panoramas, and create the final Virtual Tour, including music and narration on request. - You can take your own pictures:
We can advise you how to take your own pictures and you send us
the final images and we will stitch the panoramas for you and create a Virtual Tour. - You can take your own pictures
and stitch them into panoramas:
We can advise you about the right stitching and projection parameters and you will create you own panoramas. After you send us your final panoramas we can create a complete Virtual Tour for you.
What type
of image stitching do we support?
We
support every stitching method on the market.
- One row stitching
- Multiple stitching
What panorama
projection type do we support?
We
support every projection type on the market.
- Planar (no perspective distortion)
- Cylindrical
- Spherical
- Cubic
What type
of lenses do we support?
We
support almost any kind of lens on the market.
- Fisheye lenses (2x,3x,4x images)
- Wide Angle lenses
- Kaidan 360 lens
- BeHere lens
- Egg Solution lens
- 0-360 lens
- Remote Reality lens
- Soios lens
- VRI lens
- VStone lens
What File
Format can we Export your Virtual Tour in?
We
can Export your Panoramas in all the standard Formats.
- Quick Time 4 (cylindrical projection)
- Quick Time 5 (cubic projection)
- Java for the Web
- Self-executable for e-mail
- Self-executable for CD-ROM
- Macromedia Flash
- Macromedia Director
- Active X
- Multilayer Photosphop file
- Zip file
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