Andrew Black
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best virtual tour software
Posted: 26 May 2009 at 20:46 GMT
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Any suggesstions for the best software for building virtual tours. I've been playing with the trial of easypano and I really like it but $800 for the pro version is a little steep.
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DorinDXN
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 26 May 2009 at 21:09 GMT
updated: 26 May 2009 at 21:13 GMT
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The short answer is: if you're pro the Tourweaver worth the money.
There is also a long answer, and deppends on your background and your team if you're also coder or see coding not difficult then using oher flash players like FPP, KrPano, or the best in quality DevalVR not in flash but with hardware accel (also highly reccomended for VTours on CDs) you can say that making the vtours could be a matter of copy/paste and addapt/improve a script.
You also can buy a template or hire someone to make for you a easy to change template for FPP, Krpano and DevalVR and use it for the tours you produce.
Dorin
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Terry Montague
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Location: Boise Idaho, United States
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 1:24 GMT
updated: 27 May 2009 at 1:25 GMT
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I am always shocked when I hear tourweaver or easypano being considered as an option. To say that it is overpriced is the understatement of the century. Additionally, I have yet to be impressed by a virtual tour produced with this software.
If you are serious about virtual tours then do yourself a favor and pick up FPP (with FFC) or Krpano. Even pano2vr is miles better than tourweaver. Show me a respected and successful place that uses tourweaver as their software of choice (that is not a real estate agent).
On the other hand take all you need to do is look at the industry leaders like www.eyerevolution.co.uk or www.panoramas.dk even the top (IMO) pano head manufacturer like www.360precision.com all use FPP. Head over to www.vrmag.org and look up some of the featured artists and see if you find any of them running tourweaver.
I would take the money saved from not buying tourweaver and put it to use somewhere else.
If I am wrong please show me someone using tourweaver that would be in the same league as the above mentioned.
-Terry
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Thomas Krueger
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DorinDXN
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 6:20 GMT
updated: 27 May 2009 at 6:21 GMT
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Terry Montague said: I am always shocked when I hear tourweaver or easypano being considered as an option. To say that it is overpriced is the understatement of the century. Additionally, I have yet to be impressed by a virtual tour produced with this software.
If you are serious about virtual tours then do yourself a favor and pick up FPP (with FFC) or Krpano. Even pano2vr is miles better than tourweaver. Show me a respected and successful place that uses tourweaver as their software of choice (that is not a real estate agent).
On the other hand take all you need to do is look at the industry leaders like www.eyerevolution.co.uk or www.panoramas.dk even the top (IMO) pano head manufacturer like www.360precision.com all use FPP. Head over to www.vrmag.org and look up some of the featured artists and see if you find any of them running tourweaver.
I would take the money saved from not buying tourweaver and put it to use somewhere else.
If I am wrong please show me someone using tourweaver that would be in the same league as the above mentioned.
-Terry
I'm using Tourweaver.
Dorin
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Terry Montague
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Location: Boise Idaho, United States
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 7:23 GMT
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Dorin I do see 2 examples on your website where you have employed tourweaver. Based on that volume alone it would be hard for me to believe that tourweaver is your software of choice. I would have expected to see more than two examples on a website with someone who stands behind tourweaver as strongly as you. But maybe I'm missing something.
I still say based on price, quality and functionality you would be best to steer clear of tourweaver.
-Terry
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Pete Loud
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 8:42 GMT
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Hi,
If my trial version of pano2VR hadn't expired I would have pointed you to lots of VT's made with that, and explained it's advantages.
So instead of giving pano2VR a plug I shall spend my time looking for some free VT software ;-(
Penny Pinching Pete
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number-88
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 10:27 GMT
updated: 27 May 2009 at 10:27 GMT
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Pete...
take a look at: www.panoclub.de/jatc/
Its free and works with most flash plugins..
Rick
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Pete Loud
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 11:31 GMT
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Hi Rick,
I looked at JATC, it might have been useful when I was creating VTs with Immervision and PTViewer but I moved on from those to QuickTime then on again to Flash. What I'd like to find now is something free that will turn a Equirect. into a Flash 10 .swf
Thanks for suggesting it.
Pete
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DorinDXN
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 11:38 GMT
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Terry Montague said: Dorin I do see 2 examples on your website where you have employed tourweaver. Based on that volume alone it would be hard for me to believe that tourweaver is your software of choice. I would have expected to see more than two examples on a website with someone who stands behind tourweaver as strongly as you. But maybe I'm missing something.
I still say based on price, quality and functionality you would be best to steer clear of tourweaver.
-Terry
No problem at all, we have diferent oppinions about the Tourweaver, mine is that if one makes real money from virtual tours then Tourweaver worth the money, if the scripting look easy then are other flash players available and the limit is only the imagination,
we both make clear diferences between panoramas and linking them in a virtual tour with hotspots, radars, a transitions, floormaps, and the time you spend to produce it, the tour.
About the league, mine panoramas are better than those from eyerevolution and I'll not compare with Hans as he is unique.
cheers,
Dorin
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Doug Aurand
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 14:03 GMT
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Andrew
You're not clear about what you want; something that stitches images or something that makes virtual tours?
I'm guesing from the $800 price you mention its Tourweaver, which realisticly is about the only program to take stitched images and make them into a tour with a GUI.
Other than it, most of the other solutions are a lot closer to "general" website design. I've played with Pano2VR and its "html" output and it does make working webpages, but I didn't see a way to combine several virtual images into a "tour," but I wasn't looking really close.
From what I saw, Pano2VR would provide "basic" webpages that would need further work to produce a "tour" like Tourweaver can with various "skins", floorplan navigation, etc
If you can write code, you don't need Tourweaver. If you can't, Tourweaver is probably the way to go
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
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NYCreate
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Location: North Yorkshire & Northern England, United Kingdom
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Re: best virtual tour software
Posted: 27 May 2009 at 17:34 GMT
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We use TW pro, and also FPP. we can get very similar results / effects with TW as with FPP but it takes 1/4 of the time to do it. FPP is more expandable and the viewer quality is slightly better but for day to day bread and butter tours are made with TW as customers are generally unwilling to pay for the development / coding time for a decent FPP tour.
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