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anahum

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360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 22:09 GMT
Now, 360panogallery is ready as a robust and advanced features product. The product is designed to run panorama's galleries.

You can visit it at --> www.360panotours.com/360panogallery.html

In this production version, all the panoramas are preloaded allowing advanced transitions fx. Your comments are welcome.

Regards,
Arturo
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NYCreate

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 1 Aug 2010 at 11:34 GMT
Hi Arturo
I don't like the fact I can't control the pano manually, and the limited control panel is almost invisible, this isn't very good from a UX point of view. Is this because its for 'showroom' use so limited functionality is intended?

Most pano viewers are already able to run just as a gallery with limited features?

What are you actually showcasing here? A new viewer? A viewer skin? Transition effects? im a little confused.

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anahum

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 1 Aug 2010 at 16:26 GMT
Rudders, the manual control of the panoramas is blocked intentionally. Since it runs a gallery of panoramas, timing and speed of rotation is specified in an external XML file for each panorama, thus manual control will mess the automation of the gallery.

The product is intended to be used with Pano2VR generated panoramas. Currently Pano2VR does not provide any tool to run multiple panoramas in an unattended/automated mode like this.

I add an option to unblock the manual control as you suggest and make the menu a bit more visible.

Thanks for your input!

Regards from Chile
Arturo
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mediavets

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 1 Aug 2010 at 18:32 GMT

anahum said:

The product is intended to be used with Pano2VR generated panoramas. Currently Pano2VR does not provide any tool to run multiple panoramas in an unattended/automated mode like this.

Regards from Chile
Arturo


What form will this product take - when will it be deliverable - what will it cost?

Andrew
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anahum

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 1 Aug 2010 at 20:20 GMT
The deliverables of the product are an swf, an html and an XML.

Editing the XML you can control the pano file names to include in the gallery, its title, its rotation time and its rotation speed.

We are doing some market research to fix the price, but will be around 15 Euros/20 US Dollars.

Is this a reasonable price range for the functionally offered? Your answer is welcome.

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Arturo
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mediavets

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 1 Aug 2010 at 20:34 GMT

anahum said:

The deliverables of the product are an swf, an html and an XML.

Editing the XML you can control the pano file names to include in the gallery, its title, its rotation time and its rotation speed.

We are doing some market research to fix the price, but will be around 15 Euros/20 US Dollars.

Is this a reasonable price range for the functionally offered? Your answer is welcome.

Regards,
Arturo


So no GUI for creating/editing the XML?

Is there a choice of style of transition between pnos?

can you chhos ethe diplay time for any particular pano?

Does it handle both 360 and partial (less than 360) panos?

Does it only work with SWF file sgneerated by Pano2VR?

Andrew
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anahum

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 2 Aug 2010 at 0:04 GMT
rudders, try it now. You can manually control the panoramas.

Arturo
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anahum

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 2 Aug 2010 at 0:13 GMT
Andrew,

1.- No GUI for the XML, but it is very simple. Here a sample of the demo you see online:

<!-- PANOFULLSCREEN Accepts yes/no. Enables/Disables the fullscreen button on the menu -->
<!-- PANONAME Is a text field used to optionally display the panorama name or the Top-Right corner of the screen -->
<!-- PANOTIMER Is an integer number indicating de number of seconds that panorama should rotate on the stage before opening the next panorama -->
<!-- PANOSPEED Is the initial rotation speed expressed in degrees/frame and overrides the value specified at the panorama creation -->
<!-- PANOURL Is the file name of the swf file created with by Pano2VR -->
<PANOGALLERY>
<PANOFULLSCREEN>yes</PANOFULLSCREEN>
<PANOINFO>
<PANONAME>Living Room</PANONAME>
<PANOTIMER>7</PANOTIMER>
<PANOSPEED>+0.05</PANOSPEED>
<PANOURL>pano1.swf</PANOURL>
</PANOINFO>
<PANOINFO>
<PANONAME>Dining Room</PANONAME>
<PANOTIMER>7</PANOTIMER>
<PANOSPEED>-0.05</PANOSPEED>
<PANOURL>pano2.swf</PANOURL>
</PANOINFO>
<PANOINFO>
<PANONAME>Kitchen</PANONAME>
<PANOTIMER>7</PANOTIMER>
<PANOSPEED>-0.05</PANOSPEED>
<PANOURL>pano3.swf</PANOURL>
</PANOINFO>
<PANOINFO>
<PANONAME>Second Living Room</PANONAME>
<PANOTIMER>7</PANOTIMER>
<PANOSPEED>0.05</PANOSPEED>
<PANOURL>pano5.swf</PANOURL>
</PANOINFO>
<PANOINFO>
<PANONAME>Master Suite</PANONAME>
<PANOTIMER>7</PANOTIMER>
<PANOSPEED>0.05</PANOSPEED>
<PANOURL>pano6.swf</PANOURL>
</PANOINFO>
</PANOGALLERY>

2.- Transition types can be selected from the menu on the top-left (Fade, Iris, Dissolve, etc.)

3.- Yes, via the XML

4.- Yes, any type of panoramas created with Pano2vr

5.- Yes, for now, only Pano2vr panoramas are supported

Thanks for your interest and regards,
Arturo
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mediavets

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 2 Aug 2010 at 9:53 GMT
updated: 2 Aug 2010 at 10:01 GMT

anahum said:


2.- Transition types can be selected from the menu on the top-left (Fade, Iris, Dissolve, etc.)

Arturo

In some situations I think I would prefer to be able to specify the transition style in the XML for each transition and not permit user overide.

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mediavets

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 2 Aug 2010 at 10:02 GMT

anahum said:

rudders, try it now. You can manually control the panoramas.

Arturo

Yes, that's better.

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anahum

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Re: 360panogallery product is ready for the market
Posted: 4 Aug 2010 at 1:19 GMT
Rudders, check the product now. The manual control blocking is not there anymore.

Regards,
Arturo
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