![]() This is a full-fledged ‘virtual tour maker’ aimed at institutions, tourism businesses and real-estate, and as such it’s quite friendly and easy-to-use despite its obvious power. However, today the easiest and slickest tool I found that could easily stitch the six cube images was the $170 Pano2VR 6.0. Thus, if you don’t need the nice authoring tools of Pano2VR (see below), then using the latest PTGui 11.2 might save you $50. But it was not until the recent 11.0 version that this workflow became easy and streamlined, and only in 11.2 (June 2018) that a major bug with this same workflow was fixed. I then learned that PTGui only added support for QTVR tile import from version 8.2. But I found my trusty and venerable old version of PTGui was a little too venerable, and thus could not handle a set of QTVR tiles. Next I thought to use my install of the panorama-assembler PTGui ($115). My first thought was simple freeware utilities, but there don’t seem to be any that have a Windows GUI. MOV file, and output to a universal HTML5 viewer or other panorama formats. The $32 conversion utility Bixorama can import and convert the. MOV Quicktime movie for display in the Quicktime Player. ![]() The six 90° × 90° still source images that form the sides of the viewing cube, or these same images compiled into a single. QTVR is likely to be encountered in one of two formats. I’m always keen to find ways to keep old media alive, especially if it has a permissive licence such as Creative Commons, and so this post is a quickstart on the practicalities of conversion. In the image(s) above you see a Half-life 2 videogame level. Videogame environments can also be captured and ported this way, enabling a better understand of an old videogame environment than is possible by simple screenshots. ![]() Some historians of the digital may thus have archives of this type of image that they now wish to convert to display as a 360 VR ‘bubble picture’ on Facebook / WordPress, or in HTML5. Not only for point-and-click CD-ROM games ( Myst etc) and as output from 3D landscape software such as MojoWorld, but also for virtual tours of heritage sites. The defunct QuickTime is no longer a viable install due to major security risks. The equivalent experience today is ‘Google StreetView’ or ‘Facebook 360 pictures’, but with a genuine 360-degree view, able to look right up into the sky and right down at the ground under your virtual feet. The format offered a 360-degree picture in an immersive viewer and Web plugin. Possibly as abandonware, or under a permissive licence, or freely released by the maker. Curators and archivists may sometimes come across the once-popular Quicktime format known as QTVR. ![]()
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