Thursday, April 8, 2004

CreativeMac has a 3 page review of Realviz Stitcher 4.0. The article talks about the new features, and shows how the horizon tool can be used to straighten an unlevel panorama, the stencil tool can be used to remove ghosting, and the hotspot tool used to create hotspots. The author gives Stitcher 4.0 a Must Have Recommendation. 7:07:53 AM

Tom's Hardware talks about "New RealPlayer 10 wants to be your all-in-one buddy". It specifically mentions that the new player only handles QuickTime MPEG-4 and MP3, so perhaps the player will not try to hijack QuickTime VR? (for those not familiar with the term, Windows Media is an example of a media player which hijacks the playing of QuickTime VR away from the QuickTime plugin, and yet is totally incapable of actually playing QTVRs, resulting in the worst possible experience for visitors to a VR website--a blank screen). I would guess that if they signed an agreement with Apple to get the license to play AAC, they also agreed not to hijack QuickTime media types they cannot possibly play back. 7:06:22 AM

O'Grady's PowerPage covers Kaidan's PiXiMation, "a breakthrough software application that creates rotational object movies (like QTVR) by hand with any free-spinning turntable such as a lazy-susan. Now anyone can create animated object movies easily and affordably." Some of the features include: supports the Apple iSight, iBot and other video cameras and camcorders; and you can use your hand to manually spin objects on any turntable. 7:04:44 AM

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