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| Product | Vendor | Features | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuickTime VR Authoring Studio (buy here) |
Apple | Stitch cylindrical panoramas; make QTVR panorama and object movies; edit hot spots; make multi-node QTVR scenes; project manager. | Macintosh |
| QuickTime VR Authoring Studio Update 1.01 | Apple | Fix some QTVRAS bugs. | Macintosh |
| QuickTime VR Authoring Studio 160 patch | me | Raises the restriction on QTVR lens FOV from 120° to 160°. | Macintosh |
| Stitcher | RealViz | Stitch (multi-row) cylindrical, cubic, and spherical panoramas; make QuickTime VR panorama movies. | Macintosh Windows |
| Panorama Tools mirror.au mirror.no mirror.us (w/fixes) |
Helmut Dersch | Stitch perspective or fisheye images; make cylindrical, spherical or cubic panoramas; convert between different kinds of panoramas; correct for barrel distortion, chromatic aberration, etc. | Macintosh Windows Linux [freeware] |
| PTGUI | New House Internet Services | A GUI front end for the powerful Panorama Tools, written by Joost Nieuwenhuijse. | Windows |
| PTAssembler | ePaperPress | A GUI front end for the powerful Panorama Tools, written by Max Lyons. | Windows |
| PTMac | Kekus Digital | A GUI front end for the powerful Panorama Tools | Macintosh |
| Hugin | SourceForge | A multi-platform GUI front end for the powerful Panorama Tools. | Windows Linux [freeware] |
| VR Worx | VR Toolbox | Stitch cylindrical panoramas; make object movies; make object in panorama; transition movie between panoramas. | Macintosh Windows |
| Panoweaver | EasyPano | Sticth fisheyes to create spherical or equirectangular panoramas. | Windows |
| Tourweaver | EasyPano | Link spherical & cylindrical panoramas, still images, map & compass together with hotspots to build a web based virtual tour deployed as an applet. | Windows |
| PanoPoints | SourceForge | Graphical front-end to the control point selection process necessary to create panoramic images using Panorama Tools. | Linux [freeware] |
| PhotoVista | iseemedia | Sticth perspective images, producing cylindrical, spherical and cubic images. | Macintosh Windows |
| Interactive Studio | iPix | Stitch fisheye images, producing various spherical, QTVR cubic, or Shockwave formats. | Macintosh Windows |
| PixMaker | PixAround | Stitch perspective images, producing cylindrical or flat or montage output.. | Windows |
| 360 Panorama Professional | 360 Degrees of Freedom | Stitch perspective images and create virtual tours. | Windows |
| 3D Vista Stitcher | 3DVista | Stitch perspective or fisheye images, producing cylindrical, cubic, spherical or flat output. | Windows |
| Panorama Factory | Smoky City Design | Stitch perspective images. | Windows |
| PanoPost | Kaidan | A post-processing tool to adjust circumferential and polar overlap for scans from slit-scan panoramic cameras. | Macintosh |
| PhotoWarp | EyeSee360 | A converter from one-shot annular images (from cameras with one-shot reflective optics) and other formats into several panorama formats. | Macintosh Windows |
| Enblend | Andrew Mihal | Multiresolution blend virtually eliminates seams. | Windows [freeware] |
| XBlend | Kekus Digital | Multiresolution blend virtually eliminates seams. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| DeFish | Ken Turkowski | Convert fisheye images into perspective, hemicube, or cylindrical images. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| deliVRator | VR Tools | Analyze and optimize QuickTime VR panoramas, including multtinodes. Indispensable! | Macintosh [freeware] |
| conVRter | VR Tools | Convert between version 1 and 2 cylindrical panoramas. | Macintosh |
| Live Stage Pro | Totally Hip Software | Add wired actions and sound. | Macintosh Windows |
| MapSaVR | Squamish Media Group | Enhance QuickTime VR panoramas with directional indicators and maps. | Macintosh |
| SoundSaVR | Squamish Media Group | Add directional stereo sound to QuickTime VR panoramas. | Macintosh |
| RevolVR | Squamish Media Group | Make your panoramas rotate automatically. | Macintosh |
| NodeSaVR | Squamish Media Group | Split a multinode QuickTime VR movie into single nodes for web delivery. | Macintosh |
| MakeCubic | Apple | Convert equirectangular or cubic faces into cubic QuickTime VR movies; set viewing parameters, hot spot names & links. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| PanoCube | PanoShow | Convert equirectangular to cubic QTVR movies. | Windows [freeware] |
| PanoCube Plus | PanoShow | Convert equirectangular to cubic QTVR movies -- AND MORE! | Windows Linux |
| QTVR Edit Object | Apple | Set parameters for QTVR Object movies: column and row settings, pan & tilt controls, auto-play and animate settings. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| QTVR Pano To Thumbnail | Apple | Create a thumbnail-sized linear QuickTime movie out of your QTVR panorama. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| QTVR Make Panorama | Apple | Create QuickTime VR panoramas from panoramic PICT images. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| DeJitter | me | Remove jitter from object movies. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| Cubic Converter | Click Here Design | Converts various types of images into (and out of) cubic format QuickTime VR movies. | Macintosh |
| Cubic Connector | Click Here Design | Links cubic QuickTime VR panoramas into multi-node movies or HTML-linked single node movies. | Macintosh |
| PhotoVista | iSeeMedia | Stitch panoramas, integrate with audio, 3D objects, and zoomable images. | Windows |
| VR Hot Wires | Deep Forest Multimedia | A QuickTime VR post production tool and wired editor | Macintosh |
| Cool360 | ULead | Panorama stitcher | Windows |
| Panorama Factory | Panorama Factory | Panorama stitcher | Windows |
| PAGEot | QTBridge | Generates EMBED and OBJECT tags | Macintosh [freeware] |
| Lillipot | QT Bridge | Flatten and add FastStart to your QuickTime movies. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| VR Pleinpot | QT Bridge | Creates HTML pages to display QTVR panoramas in full screen, add sound, and show/hide controller. | Macintosh [freeware] |
| PanoCube | PanoShow | Convert equirectangular or cubic faces into cubic QuickTime VR movies; set viewing parameters, hot spot names & links. | Windows |
| Flexify | Flaming Pear | Photoshop plug-in to convert between dozens of spherical projectsions. Can also me used to make mesmerizing distortions of ordinary images. | Macintosh Windows |
| Photoshop Actions | Fred Miranda | Fred Miranda's Photoshop actions | Macintosh Windows |
| QTVR2MOV | Ian James Wood | Convert cubic panoramas to linear movies. | Macintosh Windows |
| jhead | Matthias Wandel | Display and modify EXIF data from digital camera images. | Windows Linux Macintosh freebsd Solaris [freeware] |
| Poly | Pedagoguery Software | Visualizations of Polyhedra. This doesn't really belong, but it's as much fun as Flexify to play with, I couldn't resist! | Macintosh Windows |
| Vendor | Products and Features |
|---|---|
| Kaidan | Manufacturer of panoramic pan/tilt heads and object capture devices. Distributor of most QuickTime VR hardware and software. |
| PanoScan | Slit-scan panorama cameras for capturing high resolution cylindrical and spherical panoramas without stitching. |
| Autolycos | Automated object movie capture with a DV camera. |
| Peace River Studios | Panoramic heads & object rigs |
| EyeSee360 | 360° cylindrical one-shot panorama optics [Macintosh software] |
| BeHere | 360° cylindrical one-shot panorama optics [Windows software] |
| Remote Reality | 360° cylindrical one-shot panorama optics [Windows software] |
| 0-360.com | 360° cylindrical one-shot panorama optics, produicing QTVR, JPG and IVR output files. [Macintosn and Windows software] |
| iMove | Multi-camera panoramic video |
| Enroute | Multi-camera panoramic video |
| BLS Designs | AccuPan - hardware for photographing panoramas and objects |
| Digital Cybernetics | Motion-tracking head-mounted QTVR displays |
| Spheron | Slit-scan panorama cameras for capturing high resolution cylindrical and spherical panoramas without stitching. Supports capture of HDR (high dynamic range) images. |
| Resource | Description |
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| QuickTime VR Authoring Tricks | Calculators for:
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| Virtual Reality Photography | Pioneering VR photographer Scott Highton's online resource for information about interactive photography, immersive imaging and photographic virtual reality. VR photography articles, information, case studies, tutorials and technical information on VR photography. |
| Field of view and panorama production calculator | Frank van der Pol's field of view and panorama production calculator |
| Cubic hotspot tutorial | How to make hotspots for cubic movies |
| QuickTime VR Demystified | Information on creating QTVR panoramas |
| Apple's QuickTimeVR | Apple's links to software, hardware and resources for producing QuickTime VR movies |
| Apple's QuickTime Tools and Utilities | Apple's free QuickTime production tools |
| International QuickTime VR Association | International Association for Panoramic Photography intended to be viewed interactively on a computer-like device. |
| QTVR sites | NYU's Multimedia library, by Diana Schwartz |
| Panorama Tools Tutorial | Kathy Wheeler's Tutorials |
| Panorama Tools Tutorials | Peter Murphy's Panorama Tools Tutorial |
| ReMap | David Sheehy's remap resource center |
| QTVR for Educators and Just Plain Folks | Mark Christal's tutorial on making QuickTime VR movies |
| Pony Boy's QTVR Home | by Pony Boy |
| Guide to Panoramas and Panoramic Photography | James Riggs Pano Guide |
| Converting spherical tto cylindrical panoramas | Ted Chavalas' tutorial on converting spherical PanoScan images to QuickTime VR cylindrical panoramic movies |
| Tips and tutorials for shooting and stitching and using panoramas | Philo Hurbain's tips |
| Useful items | Useful items for QTVR |
| Apple's Authoring Tutorials | Newbie intro. |
| QuickTime Documentation | Detailed documentation about QuickTime. |
| Sample Chapter from QuickTime for the Web | EMBED and OBJECT tags |
| QuickTiming.org | QuickTime news |
| Lens Calculator | SLR Lens Calculator by Gyre Technology |
| Landis Bennet's Links collection | Panorama Authoring Links from the International QuickTime VR Association |
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