It baffles me why panorama pictures haven't taken off (unless you count Google Earth's Neighborhood View).
But for years there was QuickTime, so if your friends had QuickTime installed they'd open an image that was over the email attachment limit, meaning you had to have used a USB stick to load them on their computer. Then they could open the panorama and pan left, right and zoom in and out a bit.
Since then, email attachment sizes are larger, but not so many people have QuickTime. Then there's Flash-based rendering of your panorama (using an app I have to find out and edit this post what I used), that you can pan around in your browser, but Flash is going out of existence soon and I wouldn't let my panoramas in that format anyway.
The reason why I've made QuickTime over many years (one real good one,but not great) was the idea of patients in hospitals around here. It's rugged country and for people paralyzed in a hospital or otherwise, many times they were active people and used to get to places that are now hard to reach. So that's the original reason that's gotten delayed quite a while for me.
So that's why I thought to ask, not only about best formats for the bandwidth but also if anyone else has been doing much Panorama/VR, what's going on lately and are current formats such they should be hosted from a Pogoplug or little Linux box?
Beyond that I'm strongly inclined to want audio included, maybe a 1-5 minute loop and when you pan around the sound goes in and out of phase like you're turning. Again I'll find the name of what I was using that embeds that... BIAB
But for years there was QuickTime, so if your friends had QuickTime installed they'd open an image that was over the email attachment limit, meaning you had to have used a USB stick to load them on their computer. Then they could open the panorama and pan left, right and zoom in and out a bit.
Since then, email attachment sizes are larger, but not so many people have QuickTime. Then there's Flash-based rendering of your panorama (using an app I have to find out and edit this post what I used), that you can pan around in your browser, but Flash is going out of existence soon and I wouldn't let my panoramas in that format anyway.
The reason why I've made QuickTime over many years (one real good one,but not great) was the idea of patients in hospitals around here. It's rugged country and for people paralyzed in a hospital or otherwise, many times they were active people and used to get to places that are now hard to reach. So that's the original reason that's gotten delayed quite a while for me.
So that's why I thought to ask, not only about best formats for the bandwidth but also if anyone else has been doing much Panorama/VR, what's going on lately and are current formats such they should be hosted from a Pogoplug or little Linux box?
Beyond that I'm strongly inclined to want audio included, maybe a 1-5 minute loop and when you pan around the sound goes in and out of phase like you're turning. Again I'll find the name of what I was using that embeds that... BIAB