We have posted an updated droplet tutorial which includes a short bit on batch processing as well. You can check it out here.

The documentation on how to create and droplets has also been updated.

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.

We are happy to announce that we finally released Pano2VR 2.3.0. If you didn’t follow the 2.3 beta here is a list of the major new features since 2.2:

• Background, directional and effect sound within the panorama
• Effect sounds and sound control in the Skin
• Read/Write OpenEXR and Radiance .HDR files
• Support for flat (non distorted) images

Of course there have been a lot of other smaller changes. You can find the full list in the Pano2VR change log.

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

There are times when you might want to make a thumbnail image of a panorama (like when embedding the image in a webpage). Pano2VR has this nifty little tool that lets you quickly output a thumbnail image of your panorama.

Just use the Transformation output format and choose which type of thumbnail you would like (thumbnail examples can be seen here) to output.