Internet Sites that use VR
The sites listed below were included because they present interesting samples of what can be done with immersive imaging (or photographic VR). Many of the sites contain links to their own list of
favorite VR pages. A recent check of HotBot produced 3150 hits for QTVR+movies, 13,000+ hits for Panoramas and almost 1800 hits for Panoramas+movies. Clearly the list below is a drop in the preverbal bucket. Further suggestions are welcomed. Sites are ordered
alphabetically. Updated: 23 June, 1999
- Advantica
- The Canadian center for 360 degree imaging. The Gallery provides a
variety of samples.
- Apple's
Higher Education Site
- Several of the sites highlighted provide examples of QuickTime usage.
- BeHere Corporation
- Company specializes in 360 degree photography. Check their Image Gallery for
applications to real estate, travel, site visits, news and worldwide events. Sites
include major league baseball parks (such as Turner Field in Atlanta) and world events include
CNN Interactive, a
website that includes interactive maps and QTVR views.
- Bergerson Photography
- Check out QTVR panoramas for some interesting samples.
- Berkeley Campus, University of California
- QTVR panoramas covering the campus.
- Biltmore
Estates
- QTVR of the Biltmore Banquet Hall prepared for Christmas. A
list of
qtvr movies giving a tour of the Estate.
- Calvin College's campus
- Several panoramas of the campus linked together.
- Chinese Art figures, Gettysburg College
- Object movies included in a course on Religions of China
- Cities of Europe
- Samples of QTVR scenes from CD-ROM giving a virtual travel guide of Europe.
- Clio 360 view
- Sample object movie of a amazing "notebook" computer.
- Content Arts
- panoramas and object movies (single row and multiple row).
- Creotifex Studios
- Contains a list of websites around the world which feature VR including a multi-node panorama of a German submarine.
- Denver Virtual tours
- Panos showing scenes of the City & County of Denver (Live Picture)
- dMdesign Science Education
- Applications of VR to Earth Science and Life Science.
- Duke University 360 Tour
- Visual "immersive image" tour of the Duke campus.
- Experimental java VRs
- Panonamic views of Hawaii sure beat postcards.
- Flying Fortress the B17, a WWII bomber
- Five panorama movies including views from the cockpit and the top turret.
- Geo-Images Project at the UC-Berkeley Geography Computing Facility
- Panoramas designed to enhance the teaching and learning about geography and the environment. Check the Thematic list and the Master Geographic list.
- The Getty Center
- Vistas of the Getty Information Institute for the arts and humanities. (a work in progress)
- Gibson Boats
- Take a look through the boat before you purchase.
- Goteborg University, Valand School of Fine Arts
- Goran Boardy experiments with QTVR as a forn of electronic expression.
- Grossmont High School (La Mesa CA)
- Student project giving a QuickTime virtual reality tour of the school.
- Guardian's CyberJourney
- A journey through Egypt.
- Haan House Productions
- A well integrated portfolio of panoramas, object movies, and audio.
- Happy Valley QTVR
- Alistair Fraser's QTVR page including vistas of Penn State, object models of
meteorological instruments, a satellite image, and images of hurricane data.
- Humanities, UC-Santa Cruz
- A work in progress by the Humanites Division at UCSC to capture the feel of their campus for the web.
- IPIX.com
- This Gallery includes applications for Entertainment, Photojournalism, Product
Promotions, Real Estate, Site Design, and Travel. There are also links to
-
Bell South's Tour of SEC Football Stadiums
- An NBC Studio Tour
-
The Travel Channel
- Joseph Abboud's Virtual Reality catalog
- Object models of watches, for example.
- Journey through Central Asia
- A virtual documentary of life along the "Silk Route" combining text, images, sound and QTVR.
- Journey to Tikal
- A virtual tour of the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal in Central America by
Studio 360. They also provide
a QTVR tour Lost Cities (of Peru).
- Kennedy Space Center
- A vitual tour of the space center facilities.
- Ken's QuickTime VR Panoramas
- Panoramas from San Francisco and Paris
- Leonardo Interactive Studio
- This site contains a variety of QTVR movies: an Amsterdam hotel, an object movie of "Woody", and a virtual
tour of a model Dutch town.
- Live Picture
- This gallery contains demos of the use of VR in the areas of eCatalogs &
retail, publishing, real estate, defense & intelligence, medical imaging,
and much more.
-
Micropaleontology Research
- Research paper on use of QuickTime VR to view data in micropaleontology.
Six samples provided.
- Museum exibition
- Single plane (220 K) and 8 plane (1.44 MB) object movies of Mylohyus jaw fragment.
- NASA Video Gallery
- A list of digital videos and animations related to NASA and space exploration.
- NASA Virtual Reality Archive
- Panoramas and walk throughs of Spacelab missions
- Nemeng.Com
- Various VR tours including Sydney Olympics venues, museums, festivals,
brewers, and more.
- New Panoramas
- Examples from the San Francisco area of a new (not yet released?) panoramic
technology that provides a very-wide vertical field of view.
- Oxford University's Chemistry IT Centre
- Features uses of QuickTime, VRML, Shockwave, Java, and Online video in Chemistry.
- Panoptic Vision
- Full spherical, cylindrical, and 3D stereoscopic panoramas displayed.
- Panoramic Photo International
- Their Gallery contains panoramic samples including a tour of
Hospice for the Carolinas. (Viewing
requires PPI's proprietary PanoramIX Plugin.)
- Panorama Software page of H Dersch
- A discussion of panorama tools with several spherical and cylindrical panos including a
Virtual Tour of
Marburg.
- Patek Philippe
- A multi-node tour of the watchmaker's facilities.
- Penn State Alumni Association
- The Alumni Association 's VR tour of University Park.
- Photography by Scott Highton
- Underwater and aerial panoramas and object movies.
- PictureWorks
Technology's
- The Gallery links to sites involving retail and travel.
- Praga Virtualis
- QTVR samples of views of Prague developed for a CD-ROM.
- Purdue University's Multimedia Instructional Development Center
- Object movies and panoramas for classroom and other uses, Campus Tour, and a University Virtual Visit.
- Robert Fisher Homes
- Provides a visual tour of model homes in Ft. Walton Florida.
- Ronda Spain VR tour
- Tourist attractions in Ronda
- SAAB-British Aerospace
- QTVR object movies of the Gripen aircraft.
- San Francisco Giants
- Virtual views of seat locations in the 3COM park using QTVR.
- SanFrancisco 49ers
- Multimedia images of the 49ers at 3Com park.
- Science North (Sudbury, Ontario)
- Select the Virtual Visit to see a collection of panoramas including exhibits at this science center.
- SphereCam
- Technical information on the ultra wide angle camera system (SphereCam) and
examples of photographas and panoramas taken with the camera.
- Surroundpic
- Commericial developer of VR panorama images, object models, and digital VR photographs. Gallery presents a variety of examples.
- Symonds Teaching Laboratory, Rice University
- Panoramas showing views of the teaching lab at Rice's Center for technology in Teaching and learning.
- Under Watercolours
- Sample of an underwater panorama.
- University of Nevada, Reno
- A virtual visit to the campus with an interesting comparison of old with the new.
- Virtual Earth
- The Gallery provides virtual scenes from several cities.
- Virtual Environments
- Check the Portfolio of this digital photography studio for object movies,
panoramas, and scenes.
- Virtual Galapogos by TerraQuest
- QTVR is used in the study of the ecology, wildlife, history and geology of the Galapogos Islands. Also check Virtual Antarctica
- Virtual
Tours with QTVR, a Jason Project of EDS
- Tours include an Amazon rainforest, the coral reef of Bermuda (with
an underwater panorama of a sunken ship), and Yellowstone Park
- Virtual Views
- Floor to ceiling panorama views of hotels, real estate, restaurants, scenic tours,
and sport events.
- Visualization of Remote Sensing Data (NASA)
- Site maintained by the Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with links to a
movies catalog and
3D/VR catalog
- Volvo
- Select the Volvo S40 Racer and then the VR Engine to view an object movie of
the engine.
- VR ToolBox
- Check out both the QTVR Panorama Gallery and QTVR Object Gallery.
- William and Mary Virtual Campus Tour
- Tour includes QTVR movies. Also Videos
provides QuickTime clips and more QTVR scenes of the campus.
- Windows to the Universe (University of Michigan)
- QTVR is used a one of the multimedia tools used to present material in the Kid's Space Teacher Resources. Check out the
panorama movie of Mars using the Pathfinder.
- Wright State University Anatomy Department
- Anatomical QTVR objects used in teaching Anatomy.
- Yankee Stadium
- View the stadium from 2nd base and the Clubhouse.