T3D Re: 3-D QuickTime VR

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: John Fairstein <jfairstein@xxxxxxx>


>I've done a little more work on the 3-D QTVR -- now they are in color.
>See http://user.icx.net/~jfairstein/QTVR.html . There seems to be a
>little lag from the time they download until you can start scrolling
>around the image. Let me know if you experience this same lag so I can
>figure out what is causing it.


John,

 Microsoft recently pushed their latest Windows Media Player onto my
NT4.0 system (without my consent, I might add).  It is version
5.01.52.0701.  Unfortunately it seems to think it knows how to display
your QTVR movies, but displays them in two windows.  One is a narrow
vertically-oriented strip, which seems to encompass the entire panorama,
but rotated 90 degrees; the other displays a portion of the strip in
anaglyph, but also rotated 90 degrees.  Pretty useless, overall.

I suppose I could re-install Quicktime to have it override Media
Player's usurpation of Quick Time video clips, but that's such a
hassle...

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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