Overview

QuickTime VR (QTVR) creates an immersive user experience that simulates three-dimensional objects and places. Places are shown using virtual reality panoramas. Objects are displayed using QTVR object movies.

QTVR panoramas create the experience of standing in a real place and looking around looking from side to side, up and down, and even behind you and having your view pan smoothly wherever you look. Panoramas are great for educational and archeological websites; hotel, B&B, and real-estate websites; and architectural walk-throughs.

QTVR object movies allow you to "handle" an object rotating it, tilting it, turning it over so you can see it from every angle. They're great for selling goods over the Web (What kind of connectors does it have? Spin it around and look!), and for giving "hands on" access to museum pieces, sculpture, and medical and educational models.

A QTVR scene can include multiple linked panoramas and objects.

QuickTime VR Overview

QuickTime VR delivers a photorealistic virtual reality experience. This is different from model-based virtual reality formats such as VRML, which usually offer much lower visual quality in exchange for a faster download. QuickTime VR can offer extremely high visual quality, but it usually requires a large image download. QuickTime VR comes in two distinct flavors panoramas and object movies. They're both pretty tasty.