VIDI is aggressively supporting Apple's exciting, new QuickTime VR movie technology that simulates 3D environments. We do this by providing full integrated support for creating QTVR panorama and object movies right on Presenter 3D's Digital SoundStage™. The software provides you with the virtual stage, lighting, sound recording, and virtual QTVR cameras for the creation of a QTVR panorama or object scene.. Creating a QTVR node requires only the simple action of pressing start and selecting the rendering options. The software handles ray tracing a cylindrical view, rotating and dicing the image, and encoding the QTVR parameters. No additional steps or utilities are required.
"I have found VIDI Presenter 3D to be invaluable in creating QuickTime VR scenes.", says Jeff Knapp of J. K. Computer Arts. " VIDI is the only 3D animation software company to provide users with the ability to produce panorama and object movies directly from its 3D application. No other package offers this level of integration and ease of use. With Presenter’s automated QTVR tools, the whole process of generating a QTVR panorama or object movie has been simplified to one step. It's nice and fast too."
Bob Sauls, lead designer for Jack Frassanito & Associates says "Thanks for helping us pull off our NASA project, a multimedia piece on the space station. All of the models, renderings, animations, and QTVR's are 100% VIDI. There are about 100 renderings, 20 animations, and 10 QTVR movies. It's unbelievable how fast the new ray tracer is, it smokes. "All of the simulations of the space shuttle docking with the Russian space station shown on CNN, Nightline, and the national evening news were created by Bob entirely with Presenter 3D.
With QTVR now a part of Netscape's browser for the Internet, we see our role expanding as a provider of web site content development. VIDI is committed to fully exploiting the capabilities of the QTVR 2.0 extensions in the future, including multiple nodes, animation within panoramas, and Directional 3D Sound™.
See an example of Bob's QTVR movies of the space station and check the QTVR Panorama and Object Tech Reports on the CD to see how QTVR movies are created.
