Award-winning QuickTime VR software for Macintosh and Windows brings virtual reality to your desktop without any special equipment. Use it to experience a 3D photographic or rendered representation of any person, place or thing. Use your mouse and keyboard to rotate objects, zoom in or out of a scene look around 360 degrees, and navigate from one scene to another.

Quicktime VR Movies are created by taking a series of photos, rotating the cameras position in 20-degree increments. Use of a (50mm) lens can capture an entire panorama in only 18 shots. An example of a 18-shot panorama is shown below:

In order to make a proper, and seamless panoramic image, QTVR authoring software is used to interactively "warp" and "stitch" the images together, forming a single, optically correct, seamless panoramic image. A final step converts that image into a Quicktime VR movie.

When the movie is viewed by the user, the current "view" appears in the movie window. You can rotate the view in real time in any direction by clicking and dragging the mouse. Additional key commands allow you to zoom in and out as well.

QTVR movies can also be made with "hot spots" that when clicked on, load a different movie or even a QTVR object.

More Information on QuickTime and QuickTime VR:

• QuickTime & the Internet Fact Sheet in PDF
  
• Visit the QuickTime VR Website
  
• For Help on Navigating a QuickTime VR
  

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