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Panorama Viewing Software

You can post static panoramic images on the Web in the usual JPEG format. However, it you want to add interactivity to them, you need to choose an interactive format to save them in. The great thing about panoramas, especially 360-degree views is that you can pan and zoom them. From a central observation point, called a node, a viewer can look in any direction and may zoom into or out from a particular view by changing the zoom angle of their view. Panoramic viewing is similar to, but different from VRML. In a VRML environment, you can freely move your viewpoint anywhere in the scene, but the motion is often jerky. Panoramic viewing positions your viewpoint in one spot in relation to the image and you view the scene from only that vantage point. The advantage is that your movement of the image is very smooth and the view is very realistic.

Unfortunately, there is more than one format to use for interactive panoramas and viewers aren't compatible. If you select QTVR panoramas, users without that software on the system can't view the image. In addition to panning and zooming, panoramas can also have hot spots that link the panorama to other panoramas or objects. For example, a user can pan around a 360-degree view of a room and click doors to move to panoramas of those room.Panorama Viewing Software You can post static panoramic images on the Web in the usual JPEG format. However, it you want to add interactivity to them, you need to choose an interactive format to save them in. The great thing about panoramas, especially 360-degree views is that you can pan and zoom them. .......more

From a central observation point, called a node, a viewer can look in any direction and may zoom into or out from a particular view by changing the zoom angle of their view.

Panoramic viewing is similar to, but different from VRML. In a VRML environment, you can freely move your viewpoint anywhere in the scene, but the motion is often jerky. Panoramic viewing positions your viewpoint in one spot in relation to the image and you view the scene from only that vantage point. The advantage is that your movement of the image is very smooth and the view is very realistic. Unfortunately, there is more than one format to use for interactive panoramas and viewers aren't compatible. If you select QTVR panoramas, users without that software on the system can't view the image. In addition to panning and zooming, panoramas can also have hot spots that link the panorama to other panoramas or objects. For example, a user can pan around a 360-degree view of a room and click doors to move to panoramas of those room.

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