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.

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.

This is only a quick note that the first beta of Pano2VR 3.0 has been released. More information will follow soon.
The 2 big new features are HTML5 / CSS3 export and multi resolution in Flash.

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.

I just released Pano2VR 2.3.4. This is mostly a bugfix release.

The following things have been changed/fixed:

• Bugfix: Save as default didn’t work on Macs
• Bugfix: The input dialog uses the last used image folder
• Bugfix: Flash tour: Panoramas had not been fully loaded if the sub tiling didn’t match
• Russian translation updated

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

I just released Pano2VR 2.3.3. This is mostly a bugfix release.

The following things have been changed/fixed:

• Flat Images – Flash export: Option to allow visible background
• Bugfix: MacOS: OpenEXR/Radiance HDR added to the supported formats for droplets
• Bugfix: Distortion while mouse wheel zoom without mass simulation
• Bugfix: Skin Editor: Copy & Paste of multiple elements duplicated the active element
• Bugfix: Sound editor: Visual glitch with cubic panoramas

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