flash panoramas and virtual tours » GoogleMaps

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.

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

Enchanted woodland virtual tour

John — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:28:05 +0000

This is a great tour by Tom Mills at VRwebdesign.

For a long time I have thought that when a virtual tour can stand on its own as an interactive website, then it is this aspect alone that will increase the popularity of virtual tours and panoramas. This tour stands up on its own, it doesn’t need more information.

The music defiantly adds to the ambiance of the subject and the Googlemap api (although a little hidden) is great. This is a true example that today – panoramas alone are not enough.

I did find the navigation a little strange and couldn`t understand why the next pano was loading at times, but the photography is great.

Panedia

John — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:56:27 +0000

Panedia is a large project taking place in Australia - incorporating over 3000 hi quality panos. One of the newest and most interesting/clever features is the site’s ability to automatically create hotspots with each panorama using GPS data other algorithms from nearby views. The hotspot window also contains the distance & bearing to that panorama from the one you are in.

View an example here - the guys at Panedia are not stopping here so expect big announcements in the future.