QuickTime VR
QuickTime VR is a technology developed by Apple for displaying panoramic images on computers equipped with QuickTime . The technology allows interactive navigation around the vertical and horizontal axes and control of the zoom level. So the impression of a three-dimensional space (the VR in the name stands for virtual reality , so virtual reality ).
In this context, a distinction is made between the early cylindrical and later also possible cubic panoramas. Cubic (or spherical) panoramas allow a representation of 180 ° in the vertical, while this is not possible with cylindrical projections. Several QuickTime VR panoramas can be linked to form virtual tours.
In addition to the QuickTime VR panoramas, there are also QuickTime VR Object Movies , with which the viewer can move freely around a photographed or rendered object and zoom in closer.
QuickTime VR also works on computers with comparatively low computing power, but has meanwhile been largely superseded by techniques based on Flash and later HTML5 for viewing panoramas.