Panorama Viewers
Revision as of 14:44, 23 March 2005 by Erik Krause (talk | contribs)
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)
Shockwave
SPi-V is a very sophisticated and smoothe 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