T3D Re: 3D QuickTime VR

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: John Fairstein <jfairstein@xxxxxxx>


>Even though it has the same .mov suffix, the QuickTime Movie Player
>knows that its looking at QTVR. I think QT3 Movie Player may be smarter
>than the Windows Media Player.


I think there's little doubt about that. :-)

>You are seeing the low res PICT preview in one frame and the real QTVR
>in the other frame. The low res preview displays while the real QTVR
>loads. The 90 degree rotation is probably because Media Player thinks
it
>is looking at a conventional movie.


Makes sense.

>It may not be as bad as you think. Go to
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
>for the free download. After I downloaded, my browser displays QTVRs
>automatically with no effort on my part. As an added incentive, you'll
>be able to view the 3D QTVR of Mars at
>http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/vrml/qtvr_stereo.html


Until the "upgrade" of MediaPlayer, this is just what my system used to
do.  Problem is, MediaPlayer has altered the MIME type association
within the browser, so that it now plays the files.  The Explorer file
extension association has NOT been changed.  If I knew where MSIE kept
this info and assuming it's in ASCII, I'd change it back...

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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