Re: FLASH: OT: Virtual tours

[Robbert - Jan]

A very simple solution would be QuicktimeVR worlds just made with a standard

camera.

You don't need special camera's for this.

what you need is a standard to place your camera stable. A piece of paper

with a circle drawn on it. split this circle in 12 pieces, draw lines for

all these pieces. Plae the camera on top of it. and make a foto rotate the

camera to the next line (from the pieces) and do this twelve times. You now

have a panorama view from a room.

Get yourself a copy of a quicktimeVR editor (we did this ones in the studio

but I can.t remember the name of the program we used).

Edit you room, you also have the ability to create hotspots to be placed on

doors etc. so you can walk through a house or building. Make panorama

pictures of all the rooms and you've got your virtual tour.

Without the use of expensive camera's


I suggest you do this only on estates that are really worth the time for

doing this :)


----- Original Message -----

> Sorry for the OT.

>

> I am doing a site for a friends Estate Agents business, and I've suggested

> that she thinks about having a section for 'Virtual Tours'. Does anyone

know

> what the simplest and most cost effective way would be to do this? What

> software to use etc. She doesn't have a very large budget for this.

>

> Second, anyone have experience of digital camcorders? What my friend wants

> to know is: will she need a digital camcorder for the virtual tours, and a

> digital camera for the stills, or can you get good quality stills from the

> digital camcorder negating the need to buy both?




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