These are all terms that are often interchangeable. VR photography gives you the opportunity to look around inside an image and explore different points of view.
Cylindrical and Cubic Panoramas
How are they made?
The panoramas on this site are constructed from multiple images which are "stitched" together. They are then shown as either cylindrical or cubic. Both have 360 degrees of view, however the cubics offer the advantage of being able to look all the way up and down.
QuickTime Navigation Tips
Quicktime allows you to zoom in for a closer look through the use of the shift and control keys:
Hold down the shift key to zoom in.
Hold down the control key to zoom out.
The QuickTime movie screen also contains a – and + tool feature to zoom in and out.
QuickTime vs Java
All of the panoramas on this site are presented in QuickTime, a free application from Apple. QuickTime is renowned for it's ability to display high quality full screen VR panoramas. Some are also presented with a Java viewer. This is for the benefit of those people with slow computers or connections. Java doesn't work well with large files so those panoramas are much smaller.
This QuickTime standalone installer does not require an Internet connection during initial installation. To update QuickTime to a future version, you can run the QuickTime Updater on the Internet or download a future version of the stand alone installer.
