Focus on Virtual Tour

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Focus on Virtual Tour

• Lulu
• Interactive Media Publishing
• Oxford Brookes
• December 2005

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Content

• Introduction
• Why using Virtual Tour
• Applications
• Impacts
• Technical Improvement
• Technology of QTVR (method of creation)
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Panoramic Tour and Virtual Tour' have
  mostly been
• associated with virtual tours created using
  stills cameras.
• Definition of Virtual Tour

• A digital tour of a location (actual or
  fictional) composed of a varying degree of
• images and other media. Generally, a virtual
  tour should evoke the sense of moving
• or walking through the location.
• What is VR Panorama?
• VR Panoramas are panoramic images which
  surround the viewer
• with an environment (inside, looking out),
  yielding a sense of
• place.

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Why using Virtual Tours

• Allows your audience to be immersed in a
  seamless
• 360 degree visual environment. Your audience
  will
• be wowed and impressed.
• Allows a user to view an environment whilst
  on-line.

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Applications

• In the field of digital media
• Tours often are comprised of digital
  photographs, panoramas,text and
• even sounds.

• Types of Virtual Tours Applications
• Tours integrate several panoramic images into
  complete tour package
• with a custom visual layout and navigation
  design.
• Tourism landscapes, hotels, museums etc.
• Business estate agency
• AcademicArtistic architecture,
  archaeology, campus tours

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Impacts

• Impacts
• Making your desktop to be visible with
  highly quality by bringing a full
• VR 360 degree view on the web.
• Making your travel or business to be
  effective by bringing an
• interaction tool.
• ..

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Technical Improvement

• Improvement of Quality, Usability and
  Accessibility
• Allows a user to navigate with interactive
  maps by clicking on or
• integrated floor plans in the case of the
  examples.
• http//www.arounder.com/
• http//www.panoviewing.co.uk/

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Technology of QTVR (method of creation)

• QTVR method of creation
• It can be "stitched" together from several
  photographs, captured with specialized panoramic
  cameras, or rendered from 3D-modeled scenes.
• Software
• QuickTime VR Authoring Studio first fully
  GUI software (Macintosh)
• VR VOX (Macintosh and Windows )
• Photovista and Photovista 3D objects
  (Macintosh version is not
• currently available for the last, but will
  be soon)
• Stitcher (Macintosh and Windows )
• Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools (not ease of
  user as the
• commercial programs)

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Technology of QTVR (method of creation)

• Equipment
• Rotational Cameras shooting a full 360
  degree field of view
• Spherical Fisheye lens distorting
  perspective, but super wide angle lens

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Conclusion

• Virtual tours are to be the future of
• viewing all manner of environments on-line.
• The number of people with access to
• computers that have high speed internet
• connections ever increasing virtual tours
• will impact upon everyone's lives.