Virtual Tour and The Panorama Factory Mac Edition Software for Windows

PanoModules
$0 - PanoModules team

The kit of modules to create and manage interactive virtual tours on web sites.

Creation
1. Build complex virtual tour with your favorite HTML and CSS tools only within typical web design workflow.
2. There are no restrictions for layout, structure, and visual style of a virtual tour. Modules have no fixed make-up, size, or position, so you can organically build them into any web page and create any visual style with CSS.
3. You don't need sophisticated HTML or scripting. All functionality and interaction mechanism are completely encapsulated in modules.

Management
1. Manage content of your virtual tour online in-place. Modules have embedded content management system. Its server-side part is open, so you can freely adapt it.
2. Edit your virtual tour without changing HTML code. All content and preferences are described in XML files with simple, readable, and editable format.
3. Rebuild your virtual tour, remove, or add new modules without changing existing content. New and upgraded modules are free for download.

Entertainment
1. Panoramas and maps can contain hotspots with different actions performed by click. You can attach any image or Flash file as hotspots, assign actions, "bubble tips" and visual effects for each hotspot separately.
2. Compensatory distortion for cylindrical panoramas allows displaying correct panoramic view. You can tune it visually and interactively.
3. Panoramic module can be used as slide-show and display usual non-panoramic images (just consider them as narrow-angled panoramas). Hotspots are still fully available in this mode.
4. Map module can display dynamic field of vision related to current view in panoramic module.

Advanced
Interaction with JavaScript gives more customizing possibilities for advanced developers. You can start some modules actions via simple JavaScript calls (for example, with use of standard UI controls) and receive calls from any module when some event occurred in it.

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VRbrochure FX Professional
$499 - 360 Degrees of Freedom

VRbrochure FX has revolutionised virtual tour software. More spectacular, feature rich tours in less time.

Whether new to virtual tours or a seasoned pro, if you can take digital photos and use a mouse, you can now create the webs most compelling virtual tours.

With VRbrochure FX Professional, you can create VRbrochures with everything you can imagine: panoramas, 3D objects, slideshows, animations, photos, plans, text & music.

Integrate with hotspots, special effects & guided tours. Choose your template & publish for Flash or Java viewing.

Full-360, spherical Flash virtual tours - Create full-360, spherical Flash virtual tours with full VRbrochure features, requiring no special Flash authoring tools.

Powerful, easy-to-use Template Editor - Use drag-and-drop Template Editor to create and customise your own HTML VRbrochure FX templates.

Choose from hundreds of templates - Choose from hundreds of professionally designed industry and market VRbrochure templates with your subscription to the VRbrochure FX Template Library.

Interactive maps/plans with directional compass - Create interactive maps and floorplans including directional compass effect.

Music, sound and voice overs - Integrate music, sound and voiceovers with images and hotspots for a multimedia experience;

Create private branded VRbrochures - Customise templates, logos & icons to create private branded VRbrochures to build your online brand.

Simple one-click VRbrochure web publishing - With a single click, uploading your VRbrochures to the web is a breeze. Enter your site details, "click" and your VRbrochure project is uploaded to your website, ready for viewing.

View on more browsers - Create VRbrochures for viewing on more browsers and operating systems, including IE, Firefox, Opera and now Apple Mac (Safari).

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PMVR - Patented Mappable VR
$29.95 - Duckware

PMVR is a Java applet that displays 360 degree panoramic images in a web page and in full screen mode (great performance, even on 2560x1600 displays) - a great alternative to QTVR (QuickTime VR) for creating large multi-node virtual tours. PMVR was designed to be small, fast, and multi-platform. When used with the optional floor plan applet, you can create incredible walk-throughs of homes or other "mappable" environments. When you move the panorama, you see a highlight change on the associated map/floorplan, visually showing you the 'field-of-view' seen in the panorama). Full integration with JavaScript allows for excellent customization by you or your web master. The included VirtualTourEditor.exe (Windows only) makes authoring your virtual tour as simple as a couple of mouse clicks. Just import your panoramas, set titles, create hot spots, and publish. Really large panoramas are fully supported. Use the mouse wheel to quick zoom in and out of the panorama. When panoramas larger than the viewer window are used, zooming in results in the end-user seeing more and more detail as they zoom in. Visit the top of PMVR manual web page () for many example virtual tours. Several of the sample tours feature large (5600x1000) high-definition panoramas. The resulting virtual tour is very crisp and clear and looks amazing in full-screen mode -- simply stunning when viewed full screen on a large 30" 2560x1600 display, such as Apple's Cinema display. The trial download includes several sample panoramas, which allows you to immediately launch the VirtualTourEditor.exe and produce your first virtual tour in a matter of seconds.

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The Panorama Factory x64 Edition
$79.95 - Smoky City Design, LLC

The Panorama Factory creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. You can add image hotspots, export to VR formats and create web pages that link your images into virtual tours. The software also corrects for lens-induced distortions and creates either cylindrical or spherical image projections. Additional features include onscreen zoom, support for digital SLRs, correction for barrel distortion, correction for brightness falloff and interactive controls.

The x64 Edition supports 64-bit and multi-core processors.

The Panorama Factory creates images that rival those made by expensive rotational and swing-lens panoramic cameras. Not only can The Panorama Factory facilitate creation of immersive VR worlds, it also provides features for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm images or images captured with a digital camera.

The Panorama Factory supports JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF image formats and QTVR, IVR and PTViewer virtual reality formats.

The virtual tour features make it possible to add hotspots to panoramic images and to create and update web pages and thumbnail indexes. Hotspots are used to link panoramas together. For example, a set of panoramas showing rooms in a house can be linked together so that clicking on a doorway moves from one room to another.

Users can automatically create web pages and thumbnail indexes when the panoramic images are saved. The web pages and thumbnail indexes are created from templates. Some predefined templates are supplied with The Panorama Factory, and users can create their own templates.

The software optionally corrects for barrel distortion and for brightness falloff, two problems that are common to many digital cameras. These problems can be corrected automatically and, if necessary, the user can adjust the corrections interactively. Automatic image alignment and focal length detection can also be adjusted interactively.

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The Panorama Factory Mac Edition
$79.95 - Smoky City Design, LLC

The Panorama Factory creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. You can add image hotspots, export to VR formats and create web pages that link your images into virtual tours. The software also corrects for lens-induced distortions and creates either cylindrical or spherical image projections. Additional features include onscreen zoom, support for digital SLRs, correction for barrel distortion, correction for brightness falloff and interactive controls.

The Mac Edition runs on Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel).

The Panorama Factory creates images that rival those made by expensive rotational and swing-lens panoramic cameras. Not only can The Panorama Factory facilitate creation of immersive VR worlds, it also provides features for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm images or images captured with a digital camera.

The Panorama Factory supports JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF image formats and QTVR, IVR and PTViewer virtual reality formats.

The virtual tour features make it possible to add hotspots to panoramic images and to create and update web pages and thumbnail indexes. Hotspots are used to link panoramas together. For example, a set of panoramas showing rooms in a house can be linked together so that clicking on a doorway moves from one room to another.

Users can automatically create web pages and thumbnail indexes when the panoramic images are saved. The web pages and thumbnail indexes are created from templates. Some predefined templates are supplied with The Panorama Factory, and users can create their own templates.

The software optionally corrects for barrel distortion and for brightness falloff, two problems that are common to many digital cameras. These problems can be corrected automatically and, if necessary, the user can adjust the corrections interactively. Automatic image alignment and focal length detection can also be adjusted interactively.

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The Panorama Factory m32 Edition
$79.95 - Smoky City Design, LLC

The Panorama Factory creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. You can add image hotspots, export to VR formats and create web pages that link your images into virtual tours. The software also corrects for lens-induced distortions and creates either cylindrical or spherical image projections. Additional features include onscreen zoom, support for digital SLRs, correction for barrel distortion, correction for brightness falloff and interactive controls.

The m32 Edition supports multi-core processors.

The Panorama Factory creates images that rival those made by expensive rotational and swing-lens panoramic cameras. Not only can The Panorama Factory facilitate creation of immersive VR worlds, it also provides features for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm images or images captured with a digital camera.

The Panorama Factory supports JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF image formats and QTVR, IVR and PTViewer virtual reality formats.

The virtual tour features make it possible to add hotspots to panoramic images and to create and update web pages and thumbnail indexes. Hotspots are used to link panoramas together. For example, a set of panoramas showing rooms in a house can be linked together so that clicking on a doorway moves from one room to another.

Users can automatically create web pages and thumbnail indexes when the panoramic images are saved. The web pages and thumbnail indexes are created from templates. Some predefined templates are supplied with The Panorama Factory, and users can create their own templates.

The software optionally corrects for barrel distortion and for brightness falloff, two problems that are common to many digital cameras. These problems can be corrected automatically and, if necessary, the user can adjust the corrections interactively. Automatic image alignment and focal length detection can also be adjusted interactively.

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