Ken's QuickTimeVR Panoramas
Many of the panoramas on this page look best displayed using QuickTime 4.
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These QuickTimeVR panoramas work only on the Macintosh and Windows. You need to have QuickTime and its plug-in installed into Navigator or Explorer. To get the minimum file size, JPEG has been used for compession, so this impacts the interactivity with occasional hiccups.
The first set of panoramas feature wide fields of view, were captured in San Francisco and Palo Alto in April 1998, and were stitched with software developed by Yalin Xiong, Mark Wheeler and myself. These panoramas are viewed best using QuickTime 4, which can accurately display their wide fields of view.
The second set of panoramas were captured in France in November 1995, and were stitched using Apple Computer's QuickTimeVR Authoring Suite (since supplanted by the easy-to-use QuickTimeVR Authoring Studio).
The pictures below are snapshots of particular views within the panoramas. You can access the interactive 360° panoramas by clicking the appropriate button.
Here's how to interact with the panoramas. Click and drag the mouse to pan and tilt the view. Depress the shift and control keys to zoom in or zoom out, respectively.
Kauai, Hawaii
2 locations
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San Francisco
3 locations:
203 kb, 25% JPEG |
460 kb, 40% JPEG |
196 kb, 25% JPEG |
San Francisco
3 locations:
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of Stanford University
5 locations:
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in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
6 locations:
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by the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
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San Francisco
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3 locations:
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(5 nodes, medium resolution, 25% JPEG quality, 800 kb) |
between Abesses and Sacre Coeur
(10 nodes, 25% JPEG low resolution, 600 kb) |
World's first 2500° panorama of the mural on the seven story ascending spiral staircase at the Abesses metro stop
(1 node, 25% JPEG medium resolution, 890 kb) |
World's first 2500° panorama of the mural on the seven story descending spiral staircase at the Abesses metro stop
(1 node, 25% JPEG medium resolution, 970 kb) |
quaint medieval fortified city between Cannes and Nice
(11 nodes, 25% JPEG low resolution. 750 kb) |
upward view of the plaza at Saint-Paul
(1 node, 50% JPEG low resolution. 150 kb) |
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