{"id":3036,"date":"2013-03-17T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T16:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2013-03-17T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T16:54:41","slug":"panorama-tours-initial-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Panorama Tours: Initial impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying out different software for creating interactive panorama tours:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/garden-photography\/panotourex1\/output\/swfobject.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   \t \t\t\tvar flashvars = {}; \t\t\tvar params = {}; \t\t\tparams.quality = \"high\"; \t\t\tparams.bgcolor = \"#ffffff\"; \t\t\tparams.allowscriptaccess = \"sameDomain\"; \t\t\tparams.allowfullscreen = \"true\"; \t\t\tparams.base=\".\"; \t\t\tvar attributes = {}; \t\t\tattributes.id = \"pano\"; \t\t\tattributes.name = \"pano\"; \t\t\tattributes.align = \"middle\"; \t\t\tswfobject.embedSWF( \t\t\t\t\"\/garden-photography\/panotourex1\/output\/E12_1310panox4p1pt_out.swf\", \"flashContent\",  \t\t\t\t\"640\", \"480\",  \t\t\t\t\"9.0.0\", \"expressInstall.swf\",  \t\t\t\tflashvars, params, attributes);\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"flashContent\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/images\/shared\/download_buttons\/get_flash_player.gif\" alt=\"Get Adobe Flash player\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have looked at many products, tried out 3 trial versions, and I am homing in on one: Pano2vr. This is currently in trial mode as I haven&#8217;t made the final decision to buy just yet although I am impressed with its capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>However, the documentation is a bit variable so I have been frustrated at times in trying to understand the work-flow and getting things to work. On the other hand, when I sent an email to the support desk asking some questions, I was gob-smacked to get a phone call the following day &#8211; the guy was very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>In the above example I have been able to link 2 &#8216;partial&#8217; panoramas and a &#8216;flat&#8217; (ordinary) photo, add hotspots to click on, zoom in and out, insert sounds (one of which is directional) and provide links to other photos and text. Quite impressive software.<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of the work so far, I am now talking to a contact at a Wildlife Trust about quoting for a project later on in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>This is currently featuring in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/garden-photography\/\">Garden Photography<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying out different software for creating interactive panorama tours: I have looked at many products, tried out 3 trial versions, and I am homing in on one: Pano2vr. This is currently in trial mode as I haven&#8217;t made the final decision to buy just yet although I am impressed with its capabilities. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Panorama Tours: Initial impressions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,71,3,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-panoramas","category-photography","category-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}