Monday, June 28, 2004

deliVRator 2.0 (the QuickTime editor and Internet delivery optimization tool) has many noteworthy improvements over previous versions, including the QuickTime VR Node editor, Advanced Movie Security Manager, Edit QuickTime VR mode, and more. It has useful features like the ability to simulate how a QTVR looks to the user downloading over a modem (or DSL; you select the download speed to emulate), optimizing the sequencing of data in a VR, creating fast-start preview images, editing and creating hotspots, extracting panoramic images, and editing low-level QT data. From VRtools. 7:43:37 AM

Dennis Biela to go on a road trip in a VW bug outfitted with an Xserve. From MacNN. I'm looking forward to seeing Dennis' work. It sounds like he will be doing a valuable service in educating the public about the value of VR by appearing at many shows across the land. Side note: Many times I've heard photographers say they had to take their professional signage off their car after it was broken into and tens of thousands of dollars of equipment stolen. I see Dennis' bug is plastered with signs that suggest "expensive goodies inside". I wonder how Dennis will protect his bug from thieves? 7:29:39 AM

"Digital photography is all the rage right now, with most camera makers ditching their low-priced film cameras in favor of digital point and shoots. With Apple's obsession with music resulting in being king of mountain in digital downloads, could Apple do the same with photography?" From MacNet. There's some good ideas in this piece, such as iPhoto needing to support RAW format better. But the article doesn't mention the VR photography space at all. Apple helped popularize VR photography, and there are a number of things they could do to make VRs happen directly from iPhoto. But then they might have to update QTVRAS or provide a new stitcher built-in to iPhoto. 7:24:29 AM

The RealPlayer 10 software for Mac to be available in beta form on Wednesday, plays all Real formats plus full-screen QuickTime and MPEG. But probably not VR! Will post an update when I find out whether it does or not. From PC Pro. 7:11:51 AM

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