Reality Studio

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Created by: ISeeMedia
Price: $499.95

A very feature-rich virtual tour creation suite.

 

Product version: Reality Studio v. 1.0

The following features list is not necessarily exhaustive - it is intended to help you compare products

Software (general)help 
OS / Platform Windows 2000 SP3 or XP
Image stitchinghelp 
Stitching types Cylinder
No. stitchable rows 1
Supported lens types rectilinear and some (full frame) fisheye lenses. (The original bundled version 1.0 of PhotoVista Panorama can stitch 8mm circular fisheye lens images)
Minimum focal length 15mm (approx)
Source file formats BMP, JPEG, GIF, PIC
Supported source image orientations camera must be level
Correct linear distortion  No / not supported 
Stitch greyscale images  No / not supported 
Lens selection Auto-detect, or specify lens focal length, horizontal or vertical field-of-view
Source Image adjustment  No / not supported 
Alignment process Automatic stitch with manual override. You simply drag each image into correct alignment and there is a full-size viewing window for extra accuracy
Automatable  No / not supported 
Stitched image adjustment Convert finished image between projection types
Output options  No / not supported 
Output file formats JPEG, BMP, RIC and also IVR including all of cylindrical, spherical and cuboid projection
Object moviehelp 
Object rig support  No / not supported 
Source file formats BMP, JPEG, Quicktime VR (MOV), AVI
Source Image adjustment  No / not supported 
Multi-row Object yes
Image "wobble" adjustment Adjust image centre and frame position
Set start frame yes
Masking Auto-mask by colour plus manual mask edit
Object movie adjustment resize/change image compression of finished object movie
Output options  No / not supported 
Output file formats Live Picture IVR (for viewer) or Reality Studio WRL. For each you can specify whether to store images in FlashPix or AVI format
Virtual tourhelp 
Source file formats QuickTime, IVR, WML, FPX, JPEG, GIF, BMP, FPX
Specify entry points Initial view in panorama and object movie
Auto spin Auto spin panoramas
Create hotspots Hotspots in panoramas. Object movies embedded inside a panorama can themselves be a hotspot too, but this only works in the plugin not the java viewer
Hotspot actions Hotspots can link to another web page (incl. specify the target frame), and a hotspot in the plugin viewer can start/stop or show/hide embedded multimedia
Multi action hotspots  No / not supported 
Hotspot appearance Depends on viewer used.
Hotspot: no click required  No / not supported 
Hotspot: specify entry/exit  No / not supported 
Multimedia inside a panorama Embed an image, movie, VRML object, a 2D or 3D sound or an object movie inside a panoramic scene. However ALL this is supported only by the plugin and not the Java viewer.
Multimedia inside an object movie  No / not supported 
Animate embedded multimedia yes
Position embedded multimedia in 3D yes
Scripting JavaScript
Output file formats IVR (Image Worlds)
Create web pages (HTML) Create web pages using a Java or plugin viewer. A lot of the functionality in Reality Studio only works with the plugin viewer.