The QuickTime VR Team is happy to provide you with the QuickTime VR player, the Apple Company Store sample, other samples, and free tools for use in creating QuickTime VR content. For more information about QuickTime VR, including information about the upcoming release of QuickTime VR 2.0, see the QuickTime VR Web site at:
http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com
ABOUT THE TOOLS
Use the content you create with the free tools in your Web site, CD-ROM title, or other multimedia project. These are unsupported, beta-level tools to introduce you to creating content with QuickTime VR. However, they are functional and powerful enough to create "real" content for commercial use as well. These tools do two things:
-- Make QTVR Object makes a QuickTime VR object from a series of PICTs saved as frames in a QuickTime movie. The source images can be photographs or computer-generated input from a 3D program. Use Make QTVR Object to create QuickTime VR objects for use on the Web, in CD-ROM titles, or elsewhere.
-- Make QTVR Panorama makes a QuickTime VR panorama from a single PICT image. The source image can be a scanned-in panoramic photograph or a panoramic image generated from within a 3D program. Use Make QTVR Panorama to create QuickTime VR panoramas for use in Web sites, in CD-ROM titles, or elsewhere.
For fully functional QuickTime VR authoring, you will need the QuickTime VR Authoring Tools Suite. Information about it is available at the QuickTime VR Web site at the URL below. The Authoring Tools Suite has more options for both panoramas and objects. It also creates panoramic images from separate photographs, a process called "stitching," and assigns hot spots to QuickTime VR content.
ABOUT THE SAMPLES
The sample on this CD-ROM include QuickTime VR panoramas and objects. For the newest samples and pointers to Web sites and CD-ROMs that use QuickTime VR, see the QuickTime VR Web site.
Also available on the QuickTime VR Web site:
-- Up-to-date versions of the free tools.
-- Web plug-ins for playing back QuickTime and QuickTime VR content in a Web page.
-- Information about authoring Web pages and CD-ROMs that use QuickTime VR.
-- Information about licenses for distributing these tools and the QuickTime VR Player.
Enjoy using these tools and sample content, and let us know about your QuickTime VR projects via the e-mail link on our Web site at http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com.
Thanks for your interest in QuickTime VR!
The QuickTime VR Team
P.S. For developer support, see the Web site for information about the free QuickTime VR developer mailing list and paid Apple developer support options.
