Posts by Richard

Superb ! Nothing to suggest as an improvement. Top example of the current art !

Street view is doing an excellent job at getting people used to panorama photography. I think it is a big plus for us. The only things is I wish their mouse control for click-and-drag panning worked in the opposite way ! I always find myself dragging the view in the wrong direction.

Ideally I'd like to be able to put a client's hotspot into the Google street-view scene that would launch my own more detailed panorama.

I see you must have fixed it since everything is working fine here on IE7. What was the problem ?

(Site looks good )

Fantastic ! This would be a great concept visual for a sci-fi movie.

The Sony Bloggie is about $180 and takes 360-degree video. Very limited vertical, but 360-degrees around. Is there any simple video panorama software out there that could turn this into a user-controllable viewpoint video ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjVodf2Bnwg

Laser rangefinder and Microft Visio for me.

Same XML ! Brilliant ! Deploying tours on these platforms will be a huge plus

Wow ! So much better ! If only I had of improved so fast

I notice you've designated a source point for the music... I was spinning around looking for a speaker in the image.

Great stuff

Great tour ! I like them simple. I especially like the graveyard image. Excellent

Very good quality. Just two comments - I think the rotate is too fast, and most importantly - How do I get control ? The tour has a mind of its own and keeps taking over loading new scenes and moving the viewpoint !

I think you're trying much, much too hard ! Take away stuff.

I spent the first while trying to get rid of the HUGE map, then I was looking for the mute button and turned it into little planet view instead. Then I tried to regain normal view, but the music was annoying me so much I started looking for the mute button again. And all this time I hadn't looked at any panoramas !

There's far too many buttons and graphics. You don't need to include every possible feature. Remember the important thing is the 360-degree images, not all the options and extras. I'd strip out maybe 75% of all your graphics and options and concentrate on the images. Oh, and please don't stretch fonts - as an old print artist this makes me squirm.

All this is perhaps not as critical as it seems. Instead of perfecting and learning I think you mainly need to delete and let the images do the work !

Beautifully done. Perfect interface imo.

+1 I operate with the same software in the same way

As regards commercial potential, I think your work is excellent and won't have a problem marketing on that example.

My only other comment is that I'm not a fan of scrolling thumbnail galleries. I think they confuse everyone except geeks. There's plenty of room across the bottom, so I'd just line up the thumbs there. But I know I'm probably in the minority on that idea.

Agree. I think HDR is essential unless you've got very even light all the way around. Great pics though - nice & sharp and well stitched. White sky is always a shame...

Just wondering whether there is an option, plan, or policy regarding people or iPad-like devices that don't have Flash ? What happens if the market share of non-Flash viewers really starts to increase ?

Personally I used to be a big support of Flash, but these days it seems it's mostly just ads and horribly-coded swfs that kill the CPU. I dislike Flash more all the time . . .

CNN have done a series of video panoramas from Haiti - very impressive I think. You can get an idea of the camera gear by looking at the shadows. There's a few different video panoramas in the series:

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/20…60/index.2.html

Fantastic museum. Salute to the Screaming Eagles !

A few comments:
- What is the big gray panel in the bottom left ? I can't see why it takes up so much room, or what it's about
- I didn't notice the floorplan at first. I think this needs to be much more obvious
- The graphics seem to be very jagged. Not aliased perhaps ?
- My mousewheel won;t activate zoom in / zoom out, yet for other panos it works fine ?!

I'm really looking forward to the finished tour

Fantastic little planet intro But I don't like auto-start music . . .

Seems a shame to go to all that effort and then not shoot HDR to get good sky, or allow any vertical movement ?

Good shots but extremely delicate controls. I think for people not used to tours they would be spinning around like crazy Maybe make it a bit slower ?