Welcome to something experimental!

This page and the following couple pages represent the fact that some of us have stumbled on to something with great potential for QTVR. It is not perfect yet, so send no angry letters. ;)

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To Navigate - push your mouse left or right - pushing up or down doesn't do much.

NOTE: there are several pages with several images tied to this page - also instructions for doing these, so please read all of this and check the other pages.

If you get gobs of screen "noise" ( odd patterns & broken imagery ) - you need to "windowshade blink" the netscape window or open another window over this one (one reportee opened his mail window) and then maybe try to navigate with your mouse again to get the pano to "blink in" and look normal. (So far I've used 3.0.1 or Communicator 4.0.3)

Sometimes and for no particular reason the image stablizes itself and blinks in and then at other times moving the mouse will work. The images on the following pages have been reported to work much better. Please go through them all.

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Scrolling down this page and then back up yields an ok image...

5/18/98
Reports in so far seem to pretty much say the same thing...the streaming .mov without blur, stream with blur and Instructions, here's nofeets with jpeg compression, and here's nofeets with cinepak compression links below work the best for almost everyone. This page and the sorenson compression page seem to work the worst...ah, such is the life of trial and error. What you are witnessing is the beginning of something wonderful we hope.

The images on this and the following pages are to be considered experimental. Joel Cannon is to be credited with discovering the methodology for producing the vertical movement - I simply asked how it might be done and made the attempts at seeking a solution to reducing the noise level.

I received email this morning from someone in the know at Apple who said

"As far as vertical panos goes, I will have to bring this up with the folks that create the QuickTime VR run-time.

As far I know at this point, the fact that you can create them at all is a happy accident. There are problems because they were never accounted for during development and testing. Oddly enougn, I created a few myself back when, me being interested in rather large trees, but nothing ever came of it.

However, now that the cat is up the tree, as it were, this will make it to the folks that can do something about it for the next version. I am not sure how much we will be able to do in the interim."

If you'd like to experiment with these yourself, instructions are on the page labelled "stream with blur and Instructions" below.

I am extremely interested in how these panos operate on your system. Please send email to rabbett@irh.com describing your results. I am most interested in knowing whether you use QT 3.0 Pro or the free version, what OS you use, what browser you use, how the images first appeared in your browser window and what if anything you needed to do to see the final verticals. Thanks - rabb

Attempted Solutions with various results:
streaming .mov without blur * stream with blur and Instructions * here's nofeets with jpeg compression * here's nofeets with cinepak compression * here's nofeets with sorenson compression *

Other QTVR folks' experiments with verticals *

When you're done here you may want to go checkout Wrinkle 2 Over 230 QTVRS from around the world shot on March 20th, 1998.