| Published
Tours |
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| Panoramas of all levels of coverage |
Spherical panorama: covers complete surrounding of 360x360
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| Full panorama: covers 360-degree
loop around horizon, not sky/ground
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| Partial panorama: covers less than 360-degree |
| Vertical panorama |
Vertical panoramas are for looking up-down (vs. typical horizontal panorama for looking around), e.g., skyscrapers, or tall trees etc.
See PanoTutorial
4 for an example of stitching a vertical skyscraper.
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| Use photos |
Memorable experiences are recreated
from static photo archive
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| Use slides |
Dynamic web presentation from
exported slides of slide-making software |
| Encode
images |
So your work is protected against web
piracy |
| Tour Movie |
Tourist can watch movie for guided-tour, or switch to
self-tour |
| Tour Map |
So tourist can tell where he/she
stands and the direction of current view.
Furthermore via the map tourist can quickly navigate to any
view of any vista point. |
| Tour map pages |
Show maps of different locations or
different views of the same location |
| Static hotspots |
Show extra info of a vista: linked
URL, image and text. |
| Dynamic scene hotspots |
Add a new dimension of connectivity,
with linked URLs, images and text. |
| Vista Legend |
Provide story of each vista, upon
mouse-over its thumbnail |
| Sound tracks |
Play narration of each vista, plus
background music |
| Smart
StreamingTM |
Virtual tour media content can be
large.
Downloading all content from the web can take some time. Smart StreamingTM
technology smoothes web tour play. |
| Rich navigation controls |
Touring via mouse-over/-click/-drag
on Control Bar, scene viewer, Vista Bench and Tour Map, or via
shortcut keys. |
| Resizable tour page |
For popup tour page |
| Embedded tour page |
As a tour box in another web page |
| Full screen mode |
For an truly high-resolution
immersive experience |
| TourMaster
Authoring |
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| Complete virtual tour
authoring solution |
Together with Pixtra
PanoStitcher / OmniStitcher, plus free open source
software for sound editing, drawing and slide making. |
| Cover full authoring process |
From raw tour media to integrated
tours in website |
| Express
Tour making |
A custom tour is made in minutes,
with layered-anticipation framework and custom configurations. |
| Full-featured
Tour making |
To build sophisticated tours with
rich tour logic and custom layout appearances. The whole
process is visual with coherence among the major UIs: main
window, Map Editor and Hotspot Editor. |
| In-situ image editing |
Brightness/Contrast, Rotation, Zoom,
and cropping: Make possible of one-stop authoring from
raw photos and balanced appearances of vistas. |
