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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.

John Deere Machinery

John — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:12:14 +0000

In 2004 I created quite a few tours in the UK for John Deere which included interactive spins and cab virtual tours. Moving to Australia meant that I could no longer photograph the machinery - but it seems the idea rubbed off with the in-house guys. Not really a true VR - a good use of flash however.

New 360cities application

John — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:21:37 +0000

If this great preview of the new 360cities interactive panoramas is anything to go by then we are looking at a very user friendly experience. The use of Googlemaps flash API compliments the tour greatly. Maps embedded within a tour rather than visa versa will give the panoramas the credit they deserve. It uses the new kid on the Flash Pano block , KRPano. Which seems to be the best performing FlashVR player yet - certainly in performance anyway and the interactive elements certainly seem to be at least on a par to Flashpanoramas.