flash panoramas and virtual tours

KrPano Stereographic Projection

John — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:16:01 +0000

Stereographic Fisheye Projection

a more extreme fisheye projection, it allowes much larger viewing angles
it allowes very interessting views likes the Little Planet View
it can be activated by enabling the view.stereographic parameter, and setting the view.fisheye parameter to “1.0″
it’s only possible to use “normal” OR stereographic fisheye projection
the strongness of this Projection is also controlled with the view.fisheye and view.fisheyefovlink parameters

Virtual Gliwice (a city in the south of Poland)

John — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:06:15 +0000

Your Name:
Leszek Cuper

Company website:
www.zdjecia-panoramiczne.pl

What is the subject of the tour?
Virtual Gliwice (a city in the south of Poland)

How Many people worked on this tour?
Just Me!

What photographic Equipment did you use?
Nikon D300, Nikkor 10.5mm

What Software did you find most useful?
PT Gui, Panorama Tools, Adobe Photoshop Elements

New 360cities Site

John — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:33:16 +0000

360 cities have done some great Google mashup work with their new browser using KRpano, which has the useful addition of multi-resolution panoramas. This feature is very useful when sites feature a small pano preview then can automatically load higher resolutions when the viewer goes fullscreen.

All we need now is a great GUI.

Krabat - upcoming German fantasy film.

John — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:42:59 +0000

This new site is the essence of what I am striving to showcase here on Flash360.net - a place where panoramas are used as a tool to add interactivity into otherwise “normal” websites.

This site was created by www.onlinemarketingagency using krpano

“It takes you fullscreen (click on “VOLLBILD”) into the main set of the movie where all flash-content is placed on hotspots. It even features a riddle/search game to unlock a room with bonus-material (by finding 5 parts of a magic scroll). Besides navigating within the panorama the user may also use a conventional flash-menu. All panoramas were done in multi-resolution mainly to reduce loading-time. Even if the source photos we have been provided with have been quite low-res (just compressed jpg´s with no floors/ceilings photographed so that the resulting stitches could only become 14000 px wide), I think it´s a nice example of integrating panoramas within a moviesite.”

I hope to showcase more of their work soon

Cowdray Ruins, UK

John — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:45:44 +0000

Panoco have made this nice Virtual tour of Cowdray Ruins in Midhurst, UK. This is nice and simple - the graphics are downplayed and I personally prefer the larger hotspots compared to other VR tours.

It looks slightly HDR - this often ruins old buildings, but I think this is subtly done.

La Canton Hotel Flash Virtual tour

John — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:36:58 +0000

Thanks to Ren Yifei who pointed out this virtual tour of a Brazilian Hotel using FFP and a host of plugins. One cool feature is the Day and night options. Shame it makes you view it fullscreen - I don`t like being made to do anything

Interactive Helicopter VR

John — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:56:42 +0000

In the game of interactive virtual tours, most of us have a few goals. One goal I’m sure that we all have is “one day I’ll create a perfect virtual tour 200 metres in the air”

Most of us will never realize this unfortunately, either lack of time, money, or the fact that buying a remote helicopter for a business seems just wrong! The guilt!

Anyway - here is a company that are doing it just right! And there is even a video of them doing it.

Win a KRPano Commercial Licence

John — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:45 +0000

Great news here at Flash360! We have some goodies to give away, and all your have to do is join the fun!

1st Prize -

A commercial license from KRpano - one the best performing flash panorama player. Example here. You can find more information on KRPano here and download a trial.

PLUS 12 Months Hosting from Flash360 and Eleven2 - with 150MB Space and 5 GIG Bandwidth and features unlimited practically everything.

2nd & 3rd Prize:

12 Months Hosting from Flash360 and Eleven2 - with 150MB Space and 5 GIG Bandwidth and features unlimited practically everything.
What do you have to do to get these prizes?? Use the comments section of this post to link your funniest/crazyest/strangest panorama! If you don’t have one - then make one and post the link!

Thats it! Simple eh!

The competition will run until there are 15 entries - so you have 1 in 15 chance of winning!

Winners will be picked by Klaus - the clever bod behind KRpano. Points for individuality, composition and downright silliness!

Good Luck and get clicking…

Panoramas can by presented in Quicktime, Java, Flash or whatever you choose.

How a gallery website should be.

John — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:20:00 +0000

Fulda Cathedral, Germany

John — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:17:35 +0000

“We took about 50 360°-HDR images of up to 26 f-stops during different times and seasons and that was in 2004!”