Testing 1400 pixel

I already tested using 1400 pixels for IOS5.1 on my iPad1 some time ago with this demo.
http://qtvr.dk/ipad-1400/

Even if it contains sound and a video + a slideshow it worked fine.

So I thought i would try it as standard for my tour for the National museum.
But that does not work.
Here is a test version. It has 1414 pixels tablet images on the first 4 panoramas. No 5-12 uses the 1024 level from the desktop images.
http://virtualdenmark.dk/dnm1/
Both uses the <display html5rendermode="2" setting

The loading and panning is very jumpy on the first 4 panoramas. if I manage to even load the first view without crashing. Apparently the difference from the first test is the hotspots and text boxes.
The initial pano also has a video you can click to view.

If you go on to pano 5-12 everything work perfect.

I would appreciate some feedback from people with iPad 2 and 3

Hans

Thanks for the tests.

Based on it I have also done some more and unfortunately it does not seam to be any idea in using larger cubefaces on iPad1 or 2 but maybe oniPad3.

I have been in at least 5 stores to test both iPad and Android devices. It is not easy to find the Android tablets in stores here in Denmark setup with internet connection to test.
However I got at least 5 different tablets checked.

First of all the <display html5rendermode="2"> can not be used on the krpano 16.03 and 24.04.
On all iPads even on iPad 3 it makes panning very bad with stuttering and with hesitations. iPad 1 crashes constantly with it.
It does work on the rendering though, much better than in my first tests which used krpano from 20.02

Attached are 2 images with screenshots which shows the effect.
Using the 2048 cubefaces on 1Pad 3 does absolutely give you the full sharpness but loading can be very slow and until all tiles are loaded performance is not good.

I also experienced the black tiles I have got reported from others but I am not sure if it is because of slow connection or something else.
The download speed as I tested it was not bad, I got 5 mbit in tests from speedtest.net. Here is a video which shows how the black tiles suddenly starts just after I checked one of the info popups.
http://qtvr.dk/test/ipad3tiles.mov
Also just waiting with the pano idle for 15 sec made them come when you started panning again.

As I expected the iPad 3 is very bad for all you images. Unless you mage logos, texts and navigation buttons in 200% they look like shit.
The whole idea of using a resolution of this size this way is just simply stupid, I pointed it out when I heard the rumors first time. I can see the effect on all websites with images, especially when there is text included.
To increase images to 200% is not a good idea if you have a lot of popups. as 200% means 400% larger download.

Another problem is that on both iPad 2 and 3 the poster images sometimes did not load. I just got a black screen which started the video when I clicked on it.
I never seen this problem on my iPad1.

Android is a different case. My HTC Desire Z works perfect . The large Tablets with 1280x800 are very slow and its obvious that it is because they load all my 3 first levels at same time.
Using the tablet images they work acceptable but I do not dare including any videos.
There was also on several of them including Samsung Galaxy 10.1 some problems with small png buttons. They loaded as "corrupt" images which sometimes took 1 minut before they loaded correct.

Hans

Sacha

Just look at the images for the size of the tablets,

It has nothing to do with file sizes of the popups.
It is the hotspot layers.
Here is a new test using the <display html5rendermode="2">

http://qtvr.dk/vtour/

First panorama has no hotspots. Still you can if you pan up and down get the problem and also sometimes when you pan around.
Now go to pano 2 which has just 4 hotspots. They are not even distorted.

The result is that it just does not work any more. Panning is almost impossible without crash on my iPad1.

The effect of the rendermode 2 is fine though.

And I do not use HTML text. Its awful to do any decent design with it as CSS works different and almost not at all in flash.

Hans

And to point out even more precise .
Here is one with the popups removed. It is just 4 spots with a 12 kb png.

And to make sure that scaling to 0.35 is not a problem I set them to 0.5
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http://qtvr.dk/vtour/2.html

Hans

As well as iPad3 and 1.

The effect on iPad 3 may very well get around you if you have not seen what it does on iPad1 and 2.

I said in the first report that krpano from 28.02 worked fine with <display html5rendermode="2"> and 1400 pixels tablet images

I was wrong, I just did not have any hotspots in those panos even if I have a 4 image slideshow , combibox sound and a large video.

Here is the test http://qtvr.dk/vtour/2.html
with tour.js exhanged to 28.02 version and just these hotspots on pano 2.

<hotspot name="tex1" alpha="0.6" scale="0.5" zoom="false"
url="spots/info2.png" ath="-62" atv="2" />

<hotspot name="tex2" alpha="0.6" scale="0.5" zoom="false"
url="spots/info2.png" ath="21" atv="7" />

<hotspot name="tex3" alpha="0.6" scale="0.5" zoom="false"
url="spots/info2.png" ath="60" atv="19" />

<hotspot name="tex4" alpha="0.6" scale="0.5" zoom="false"
url="spots/info2.png" ath="90" atv="18" />