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 developed 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. Requires panorama in QTVR 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 QTVR 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
Linux
- panoglview
- panoviewer
- PTViewer, the original linux viewer created by Helmut Dersch available from one of the mirrors.