Flash VR

Papervision 3D is an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform; it's "written and maintained by a small core team, and contributed to by its ever-growing community".

Disclaimer: I'm a hobbyist with only the most rudimentary graphic editing skills.

Over much of the past year, I made QTVR panoramas with PTMac. My 6 horiztonal shots stitched wonderfully, but adding the zenith often caused errors with seams, in the triangle formed by the zenith shot and the first and last horizontal shots. Usually the error would be a small section off by 1-3 pixels. I'm working on acquiring the graphic editing skills to take care of such errors.

Folks using Flash Panorama Player ("FPP") may be interested in the following two free plugins posted to flashpanos.com.

Rick Workman created the plugins for his own work and has offered them to the community at large.

1) The video player plugin plays linear media files (.flv and .swf) under XML control in FPP. Its main use is for playing transition movies between pans.

For those using the Flash Panorama Player to deliver their VR, I recently created a plugin for FPP which hopefully makes life easier. :)

This is a Flash AS3 scripted dropdown menu, for pano-to-pano navigation within a tour. It uses the standard FPP XML syntax, so makes populating the menu with labels and links a snap!

Interested folks can read more, and download the plugin at the FPP forums. at http://flashpanos.com .

Cheers,

Patrick

CheathamLane recently photographed some 360° Product Rotations (Object VR) for audreybag. audreybag is a division of the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, and they're producing limited edition Italian-made handbags. Nice!

Also recently live -- Maura Lane (the Lane half of CheathamLane) recently began selling her custom silver jewelry at Etsy. Interested folks can visit her work at her space on Etsy's site. Enjoy!

Cheers,

Patrick