QuickTime Virtual Reality QTVR

QuickTime Virtual Reality ( QTVR ) is an example of an interactive panorama software program.  It can be used to create virtual tours and interactive scenes.

This program allows the user to move forward, backward, right, left, and so forth within a scene.    There are a number of books available on  QuickTime VR.

QuickTime VR Authoring, Apple's webpage of their available QTVR software, and a VR Showcase of links to examples, such as The Louvre Museum.

QuickTime Virtual Reality for Educators and Just Plain Folks  Illustrated tutorial by Mark Christal.

SimplyVR - Tech4Learning, Inc., 10981 San Diego Mission Road, Suite 120, San Diego, California 92108
QTVR software for educators.   Used to create virtual tours and interactive panoramas.
 

Links

QuickTime VR Website List, maintained by Diana Schwartz, at The Multimedia Library website, links to many QTVR websites around the world.

Worldwide VR Panoramas, maintained by  Hans Nyberg, has links to over 20,000 QTVR and other panoramas, at his website on Virtual Reality Photography ( Immersive Photography).

Worldwide VR Panoramas; A review of panoramas.dk , by Michelle Bienias
 

Specific Examples

Exploring Florida:  A Social Studies Resource for Students and Teachers  - many panaramas.  Florida Center for Educational Technology, University of South Florida, Tampa.

North Carolina Estuary in Quicktime Virtual Reality - Washington, North Carolina.

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