In a few weeks, in the beautiful southwestern American city of Tucson, Arizona, something interesting will occur; men and women with odd-looking photographic equipment will be seen roaming this area.

What they will be doing there, with their strange mechanical devices, no one really knows for sure – unless they attend The International Panoramic Photography Conference. We gnomes will be amongst these good folk and we look forward to seeing you there!

Version 2.3.0 of Pano2VR gave us the option to use a flat image (or a non-distorted image) as an input type and then export it as a Flash movie. Earlier, this was done through the Cylinder input type, setting the field of view angle and making sure that 3D distortion was turned off. The Flat input type now takes care of this for us. Sweet! Check out the new video and text tutorials:

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I just released Pano2VR 2.3.1. This is mostly a bugfix release.
I also added 64 bit versions for Windows and Mac.
For the Mac release: Because Carbon doesn’t support 64bit I also provide a Cocoa build that has a Intel 32bit & 64bit and PowerPC universal binary. You need at least Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to use the Cocoa build.

The following things have been changed/fixed:

• Flash export: You can add your link in the Flash context menu (only with a company license)
• Translations added/updated (Portuguese, French, German, Polish, Farsi)
• Output folders are created if they don’t exist
• Default output for empty projects is now the Documents folder
• Better handling of large images in “Trial” mode
• Bugfix: Flash: Mininal FoV works again
• Bugfix: Patch Tool: Patches for 8 bit images are now fully opaque

You can download the new version (as always) from the Pano2VR download page.

I just released a new beta version of Object2VR. To work with larger projects (>1000 images) I added 64 bit versions for Windows and Mac OS X.

For the Mac release: Because Carbon doesn’t support 64bit I also provide a Cocoa build that has an Intel 32bit & 64bit and PowerPC universal binary. You need at least Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to use the Cocoa build.

Some new features are:

• Better handling of larger projects
• Updated Skin editor
• Skin:Viewer Mode to switch between turn & move mode
• A lot of bug fixes

You can download this version (as always) from the Object2VR download page.

Did you know you can change the project default settings in Pano2VR? If you have found a regular base of settings in your workflow, you can save these settings as the default using the Save as Default option in the File menu.

For example, if you regularly output to Flash with a window size of 800 x 400 and a frame rate of 25, you can have the Flash output with these settings ready every time you open a new project file. Or if your metadata is constant, like the Author and Copyright, you can add this to the User Data fields and save as part of the default settings.

Naturally, you can always revert back to the original system default settings by choosing Reset Default from the File menu.