• HTML5 export
• SWF and External elements in the Skin
• Margins in the Skin
• Updated Qt framework
• Many bug fixes
• New license model

As object movies don’t need any specific 3D features in HTML, the HTML5 exported object movies also work in older browsers, down to even Internet Explorer 6. Depending on the browser features not all functions may be available. In particular, the zoom/fullscreen and area hotspots require a modern browser. The HTML object movies work with all features on Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Safari 5, Opera 11 and mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone, Playbook and Android devices.

You can see some examples at http://ggnome.com/o .

We also changed the license model to match the new Pano2VR license model. If you already have an Object2VR license nothing changes. For new customers the licenses are now issued per seat and you can add the unbranded option.

To download this beta, please visit the Object2VR download page.

To download this beta please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Another new feature in this beta are margins in the Skin. Margins allow you to place skin elements (for example the map) outside of the panorama. Martin was kind enough to produce a tip over the weekend to show margins in action.

To see the full list of changes, please go to the change log. To download this beta please visit the Pano2VR download page.

• Transitions between panoramas in virtual tours
• Flash files within the skin
• External images and SWFs within a skin (Youtube, etc.)

You can see some of those new features in this virtual tour.
In addition to that, a lot of areas have been improved and a lot of bugs have been fixed. I just want to highlight a few:

• Flash multi res: Now pixel perfect tile alignment and adjustable bias for level switching
• Regular expressions to address multiple skin elements
• Clean up of the Flash settings
• HTML5: Flash fallback in the HTML template
• HTML5: A lot of bug fixes in the player and skin
• Switch to Qt 4.7.0 so a lot of annoying GUI bugs on the Mac should be solved

To better organize the future developments we now use a new bug tracking system and we decided to make it public. So in the future you can just a have look at http://ggnome.com/bt and you can see all the changes between releases and you can also see what we are up to.
Finally I like to thank Martin (aka Hopki) for his great help in the last weeks. We are really happy to have him on the team.

To download Pano2VR 3.0 beta2 please visit the Pano2VR download page.

The HTML5 player is a full feature panorama player, with point hotspots, full skin support (your Flash skins should work without changes), multiple resolutions for iPhone/iPad and Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) within the skin to use the high resolution display of the iPhone4.

The multi resolution export has built in image tiling, the tiles can be embedded within the SWF, and the tiles can be in different projections like 
cubic, equirectangular, cylindrical, flat.

You can see demos of these new features here: http://ggnome.com/3 (iPhone friendly URL).

To import larger images also BigTIFF is now supported.
You can download free Photoshop import/export filters for BigTIFF here: (Windows/Mac). You have put those into your Photoshop plugin folder.

Pricing: The price is still 59 Euros (excl. VAT).
Upgrade: If you bought Pano2VR 2.x in 2010 the upgrade to 3.x is free, between 1.7. and 31.12.2009 it is 10 Euros (excl. VAT) and if you bought it before 1.7.2009 it is 20 Euros (excl. VAT).
This also means you can just buy Pano2VR 2.x (or upgrade from Pano2QTVR) and request your free key for Pano2VR 3.x.

To download Pano2VR 3.0 beta please visit the Pano2VR download page.

• Import QuickTime VR files
• Updated Skin editor
• Option for smoothing while zooming
• You can add your own link to the context menu (only with a company license)
• A lot of bug fixes

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

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.

The changes are:

• Switch back to Qt 4.5.3 because of OpenGL errors in Windows
• Bugfix: Flat images work now correct with hotspots
• Bugfix: Flat images showed sometimes a thin black line
• Bugfix: Skin: Endless loop (loop=0) changed volume
• Change of cylindrical FoV in viewing parameters works now faster

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

The new features/changes are:

• Flat (non distorted) images as input type and Flash output
• Flash 9 export: 4 different field of view modes (vFoV, hFoV, dFoV, Max)
• Support for tiled TIFFs as produced by PTStitcherNG
• New faster memory management for large images (~GPixel)
• Skin: Hand cursor as option per element
• Skin: Placeholders work also in value fields
• Cylindrical Horizontal FoV now also in “Viewing Parameters” window
• Update to Nokias Qt 4.6.0 which should be faster.

And of course bug fixes:

• Sound: Some bugs with looping fixed
• Odd PNG bug work around implemented
• Flash HTML “externalize” fixed
• Skin: Loading bar/OnLoaded works correct with external images

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