Pele Leung
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What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 at 7:35 GMT
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I need an almost zero-programming-effort virtual tour software for building professional commercial virtual tours. It needs to have the following features:
- support map, sound/music, hotspots, video, Flash output format, full screen display
- excellent image quality
- almost zero-programming effort
I have already investigated 3D Vista 3.1, Tourweaver 4.0 and Pano2VR 2.1. Do you have other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Pele Leung
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rudders
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 at 8:57 GMT
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Im sure there are some more, but 3d vista and Tourweaver are generally the best for full featured tours without programming / coding knowledge. I can personally recommend TW4 Pro, we have been using tourweaver pro for around 5 years now.
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halflife
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etegration
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 at 18:47 GMT
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halflife said: Hi Pele,
Try this:
www.panoclub.de/jatc/
it's free!!! 
It is but it is buggy and you may need to purchase some other software like KRPano or FPP before you can use that so all in all, it's not free.
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Pele Leung
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 0:26 GMT
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Thanks guys.
Is there any VT software on the market that is similar to Show 3 and Tourweaver V3/4 in functionality and completeness?
Cheers
Pele
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B0b
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 24 Sep 2008 at 8:20 GMT
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What about 360dof (www.360dof.com)?
I'm pretty sure they don't do video though.
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Pele Leung
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 25 Sep 2008 at 0:15 GMT
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Thanks for your suggestion. After assessing their demo examples, I have concerns with the output quality of VRBrochure. The controls such as the hour-glass seem to have time lag. The overall appearance is average.
Honestly I haven't really downloaded the trial to assess the software in detail.
Pele
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Phil 123
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 25 Sep 2008 at 1:56 GMT
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Hey Pete,
We are going thru exactly the same process as you and have similar requiremetns. We've downloaded many different trial programs to assess.
I did not find the expensive Tourweaver very intuitive and all that great to use. It may be great after many many hours of use, but you wont get up and running very quickly.
We're having difficulty in finding a prog that will combine lots of high quality panorama's.
I found Panoram Express had the best, easiest interface - but so buggy and a memory hog that soon runs the machine out of RAM - or crashes(tried on a coupple of machines).
I think we'll end up going with 3DVista Show 3.
Let me know what you end up using - and how you've found it.
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Phil
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Morten Boe
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 25 Sep 2008 at 2:58 GMT
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G'day Pele,
Is there a reason you are not wanting to use Show 3 or Tourweaver? These two seem to be the clear leaders currently, looking at your requirements.
The alternative of using say FPP (or similar) requires a lot of work and research on your behalf. I am sure either software will need some time to get to know. However, once you have a workflow in place they will save you both time and money. One reasonable job will pay for either of these choices.
I use and highly recommend 3DVista's Show 3. If you have time check out my site www.trueview.com.au All my samples and current work use Show 3.
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Morten
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Randy NoWay
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 8 Oct 2008 at 21:45 GMT
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Bugs in 3dvista 3 and very poor or no support.
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Pele Leung
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 9 Oct 2008 at 9:59 GMT
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Morten,
I noticed your site at the beginning of my VT research. Good work. I think the design of Show 3 is very "human" if we compare it to others. Tried Tourweaver and it appears to be too "technical" especially the jargon they use although I understand that no programming is required like FPP.
Randy,
I haven't experienced the same support level like what you received from 3DVista. Their contact, Jose, has been very helpful to my research so far. If you need a contact email address of Jose, please email me. I think if they can resume their forum quickly, it would help to give better support image.
For my research so far, Pano2VR is one of the most economical and value-for-$ solutions if you don't need map/floorplan, video and slideshow as part of the integrated VT solution.
Pele
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Randy NoWay
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 16:49 GMT
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Hi Pele,
We have Jose's email and un until several months ago response was pretty good. Once we paid for v3 (we know - it was in beta), it was difficult to get a response. Now we get none.
We liked (still do) v 2 but v3 is unusable. The last build we have is 37 and it still freezes and audio is not usable.
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Randy
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Pele Leung
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 3:18 GMT
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Hi Randy,
I have tested RC37 briefly and the audio seems to be okay on Windows XP/Vista. However, it got problems on OS X Tiger 10.4.x. What do you mean "freezes"? Under what situation? The only related issue I encountered was auto-spinning pano. It doesn't spin (& also no sound) when audio is added and this issue only happens on OS X Tiger.
Above from the above platform specific issue, there is a memory issue when exiting Show3 - ended up with a Windows memory error message (crash?) but it seems impact nothing in practice.
Pele
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Vilmer
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 2:19 GMT
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RC38 just came out. Maybe that one will fix the issues you're having? It has flash 10 output now btw..
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Randy NoWay
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Re: What Virtual Tour software would you use?
Posted: 18 Oct 2008 at 13:00 GMT
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Hi Pele,
In both FF and IE if we toggle sound (usually in full screen) the tour freezes. In almost every case you must reboot. Some time you can simply ctl-alt-del to end the function. A tour can freeze even when audio is not included in the tour but not always.
When using the 1 of x, 2 of x, ect with slide shows it does not advance beyond 1 of x.
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Randy
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