Virtual Tour of Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

We've created a virtual tour of the student experience at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, with videos, slideshows, sounds, and facts appearing in appropriate context:

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This tour attempts to reflect the energy and personality of Thayer School and to show our facilities in a way that we hope will make prospective students want to come for a real visit. Not all students are able to visit the campus, so we've tried to recreate the "magic" of being here for students who are unable to make the trip.

Feedback welcome!

Regards,
The Thayer360 Team

Thanks for the feedback.

Robert, you are right ... for some reason the Great Hall was set at a strange angle. Thanks for catching that error!

The slideshows and videos are loaded into the tour using the textfield plugin.

The slideshows are created in Flash and saved as swf files.

The videos are converted from mov files to flv format using Flash. The video player itself is created in Flash and saved as an swf file.

Tuur, we used Flash CS3 to create the video player. The video playback area is an FLVPlayback component. The play/pause button and progress bar were created using the video components in Flash. The play button that shows up in the middle of the video initially uses a simple actionscript. The code for the timer (bottom right) is adapted from Flash Video: Time Duration Display How-To.

Alison