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lybarrondo

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Saturday, May 26th 2012, 2:29am

VT of Smithsonian's National Postal Museum

Hello,

I just finished work on a smaller tour of the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. It is a very cool place. Here are the links:

http://npm.si.edu/fireandice/virtualtour.html

http://npm.si.edu/systemsatwork/virtualtour.html

http://npm.si.edu/mobile

The first two are different entry points into the same tour, but originate in seperate exhibits. The third is the mobile version of the tour (i.e., use a smartphone or tablet to view it).


P.S. Thank you Klaus for making this possible. Krpano is a brilliant piece of work and well worth the modest cost! (BTW - It's important to me that I have followed licensing correctly, so let me know if I am good.)

P.S.#2 Thanks to Andrey as well for the excellent mobile interface template!


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Saturday, May 26th 2012, 3:17am

Seems to work. On the iPhone the interface isn't usable though.
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Saturday, May 26th 2012, 4:57am

What iPhone are you using? (3G, 4 or 4s)


I have a 3G iPod touch and it will run, though barely. At some point, you have to build for the trend line. In the US and Canada, mobile devices account for 20% of all internet traffic. A quarter of that is by much more capable tablets like the iPad. I don't know what portion of that remaining 15% is older iPhones, but it won't be increasing. iPhone 4s is now the top seller for Apple. Basically, if I designed a version of a virtual tour like this for such a small and eventually replaced niche, I'd go broke. It's too much effort for a small and decreasing audience.

I've recommended that the Smithsonian employ browser detection to serve incapable devices individual panoramas instead of the VT, but they got excited and posted it as is. I'll talk to them again on Tuesday about a redirect or at least a caveat.

If you get a chance, try it on a nice phone or tablet. It's pretty cool.

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Saturday, May 26th 2012, 12:30pm

I did forget to mention that I am working on building a native app to support Android and iOS devices. In the process, I will play with trying to optimize the tour even further to better support older phones. My clients have a strong passion for outreach and I suspect it won't take many responses like yours before they ask me to check into addressing it. Unfortunately, that small percentage of users not satisfied will be the most vocal.

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Saturday, May 26th 2012, 2:56pm

iPhone4, the buttons are really too small to click and only a few of them work. You don't need arrows for a touch device anyway. The instruction action looks like it opens a shadowbox but the content inside is too large.

As for browser detection, krpano js already does this.
It wouldn't take much to optimize the tour for idevices.

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What iPhone are you using? (3G, 4 or 4s)


I have a 3G iPod touch and it will run, though barely. At some point, you have to build for the trend line. In the US and Canada, mobile devices account for 20% of all internet traffic. A quarter of that is by much more capable tablets like the iPad. I don't know what portion of that remaining 15% is older iPhones, but it won't be increasing. iPhone 4s is now the top seller for Apple. Basically, if I designed a version of a virtual tour like this for such a small and eventually replaced niche, I'd go broke. It's too much effort for a small and decreasing audience.

I've recommended that the Smithsonian employ browser detection to serve incapable devices individual panoramas instead of the VT, but they got excited and posted it as is. I'll talk to them again on Tuesday about a redirect or at least a caveat.

If you get a chance, try it on a nice phone or tablet. It's pretty cool.
KRPano Developer: Portfolio ::Gigapixel Tagging Solutions - Porfolio 2 :: Facebook :: Twitter :: reddit.com/r/VirtualTour

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Saturday, May 26th 2012, 4:39pm

I think you are accessing one of the first two links, which are built for a desktop. The third link is to the mobile version. Can you please double check to make sure it is the mobile version that you are having issues with on the iPhone. There shouldn't be any shadowbox to open or hotspot arrows on the floor for the mobile tour.

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Saturday, May 26th 2012, 5:12pm

All buttons on the mobile version work for me on a iPhone 4. Andrey's template works pretty well too. It is the nicest easiest quick tour builder I have seen yet. The sliding thumbs integration is awesome!

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Sunday, May 27th 2012, 3:09am

Quoted from "lybarrondo"

I think you are accessing one of the first two links, which are built for a desktop. The third link is to the mobile version. Can you please double check to make sure it is the mobile version that you are having issues with on the iPhone. There shouldn't be any shadowbox to open or hotspot arrows on the floor for the mobile tour.


Right the third link works ok on the iphone.
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