Panorama Viewers

There are basically three types of viewers for spherical panoramas:

• Java based Viewers run on any platform that supports Java.
• Plugin based viewers require a plugin (Quicktime, Shockwave) to run and might be platform specific.
• Stand alone viewers that are executables for a specific platform.

Java based Viewers

Free

• First and until now most versatile is PTViewer developped originally by Helmut Dersch and now maintained and enhanced by Fulvio Senore
• Immervision G2 - very promising but still beta.

Commercial

There are some commercial Java based viewers. Most of them are either a PTViewer clone or less functional. (Please add something about commercial Java viewers)

Plugin based Viewers

Apple Quicktime

Quicktime is available for Apple Macintosh and Windows. Requieres panorama in QT movie format. (Panocube converts from equirectangular to .mov on Windows)

PangeaVR

PangeaVR is a viewer for Mac OSX only that displays both cubic QuickTime-VR panoramas in QT movie format and equirectangular (spherical) JPEG panoramas by Brian Greenstone. See http://www.pangeasoft.net/pano/plugin/pangeavr.html for details.

Shockwave

SPi-V is a very sophisticated and smooth viewer based on Macromedia Shockwave that handles panoramas completeley in graphics card memory.

Stand alone Viewers

Windows

• FSPViewer is a free hardware accelerated stand alone viewer by Fulvio Senore
• panoglview
• panoviewer panoviewer

Linux

• panoglview
• panoviewer panoviewer
• ptviewer, the original linux viewer created by Helmut Dersch available from one of the mirrors.

Apple Macintosh

• panoglview