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Object2VR 2.0.1 released

thomas — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:03:54 +0000

We just released a new version of Object2VR. This is a bugfix release. You can see all changes in the change log.

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

Pano2VR 3.1.2 released

thomas — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:27:03 +0000

We are happy to release a new version of Pano2VR. This is mainly a bug fix release. You can find the complete list of changes here. Two new features are a “Show in Explorer/Finder” in the context menu (right click) for all labels with file names. We also changed almost all dialogs to be non modal so you can now open more then one output or project window at the same time.
The file path handling has also been changed and the “base path” has been removed. All files are now relative to the project file.
To download this release please visit the updated Pano2VR download page.

Object2VR 2.0 released

thomas — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:32:24 +0000

We are proud to release the final version of Object2VR 2.0. After almost 3 years in beta I guess it is time to let go and name it with a proper version number. Since we could not resist, we added another feature since Object2VR 2.0b9 which is multiresolution. You can see a demo here.

To sum up the features of Object2VR:

single and multi-row VR object movies
multiple view states
fully customizable skin
hotspots
multiresolution
Flash, HTML5 and QuickTime VR export

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

Pano2VR 3.1.0 released

thomas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:57:17 +0000

We are happy to release a new version of Pano2VR. While looking at the features we decided that this justifies a minor release number instead of just a 3.0.1 release. Of course this moved back the planned features for 3.1 to 3.2 as you can see in the updated roadmap.

The major new features are WebGL support for the HTML5 output so now Firefox >=4.0 and Chrome >=9.0 are also supported. Another highlight is the built-in web server to simplify local testing.

Here is the complete list of the new features:

Built-in web server
HTML5 WebGL support (Firefox, Chrome)
HTML5 Gyro support
HTML templates now use SWFObject
HTML5 multi-touch support for Android 3.1 and Blackberry Playbook
Hebrew and Greek translations

There have been also a lot of bug fixes. For instance, Flash panoramas work again in Flash 9/CS4.
We also did a lot of the improvements in every other part of the software.

To download this release please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Object2VR 2.0 beta 9 released

thomas — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:59:51 +0000

After way too long, we are happy to announce a new beta of Object2VR. The new features for this beta are:

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.

Pano2VR 3.0 released

thomas — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:29:25 +0000

We are very proud to announce the final release of Pano2VR 3.0 after almost 8 months in public beta. The major new features compared to 2.3 are:

HTML5 export (iPhone/iPad)
Multi Resolution
Transitions
Photoshop PSB/PSD and BigTIFF support
SVG/SWF objects in the Skin

We also did a lot of the improvements in every other part of the software. We like to thank everyone who beta tested and helped us to improved Pano2VR with their bug reports and suggestions.

To demonstrate some of the key features we created a short video:

As Pano2VR 3 is a major new release, this is for the first time a paid upgrade, however if you bought Pano2VR 2 since 1.1.2010 the upgrade is free. To buy or upgrade your license please visit the license page.

To show you some of those new features we updated the examples page. You can also use the iPhone friendly shortcut: http://ggnome.com/3.

To download this release please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta5 released

thomas — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:22:41 +0000

We just released a new beta for Pano2VR. This is mainly a bug fix release but also some new features have been added.
With this beta the preview image is saved along with the project so the “resizing” process can be avoided if the image has not changed. In combination with the experimental feature “smart loading” (you have to enable this in the settings) you can open gigapixel projects almost instantly.
Skins now support masking for containers and we added new actions that are triggered during multi resolution tile download. You can find the complete list of changes in the change log.

To download this beta please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta4 released

thomas — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:27:16 +0000

I am happy to announce a new beta version for Pano2VR. This time we had a really long bug list so it took a while. As I wanted to also fix the Photoshop BigTIFF bug on Mac OS, Adobe confirmed the bug in Photoshop but they have no work around and will not fix it until CS6. So we needed a new solution to import gigapixel images and as Adobe finally published the PSD/PSB format we went with that. Starting with this beta you can load/save PSD/PSB files in Pano2VR.

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.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta3 released

thomas — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:34:42 +0000

Pano2VR 3.0 beta3 is mainly a bug fix release. You can find most of the changes in the bug tracker change log.
In addition a lot of smaller things have been improved, like the transitions for area hotspots.
To download Pano2VR 3.0 beta3 please visit the Pano2VR download page.

Pano2VR 3.0 beta2 released

thomas — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:25:42 +0000

This beta took an unusually long time to get released but I hope it was worth it. This beta is now (almost) feature complete and there will not be any new major additions to Pano2VR 3.0. The new features for beta2 are:

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.