To throw in my 5 cents:
If tour is just needed for panos we could do a <pano>-tag, for that we
need the distorted 360°-pano-image and do a rendering of it in the browser
into a 360°-pano.
What's needed is something like:
+ image-source
+ image-width and height
+ tilt- and pan-angle
+ initial field of view (fov) definition
+ min and max for tilt, pan and fov
+ an auto-setting for automatic playback
+ quality-settings for how exactly the rendering is done.
+ maybe an attribute to number the panos if you wanna make a tour
+ maybe an attribute for cylindrical or spheric pano
+ maybe preloading-images if it's an hires-pano
It is not a complete list
A good link for how pano-viewing works is:
http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/PTVJ/doc.html
For connecting a pano with another one you need to create a hotspot. So
maybe a <hotspot>-tag should be possible in the <pano>-tag or the
<a>-element with attributes:
+ location on the image: x and y (CSS:position, top, left)
+ width and height (CSS)
+ maybe action-status: what action should be done on clikcing the hotspot
and how long, before the target-pano is loaded
Something else needed would be a possibility to cover the nadir (bottom of
a pano) with a logo etc. with the use of an image or by inserting a
caption (rectangle over the whole bottom with text) onto the pano-image
which would then render in the pano itself as circle. This is used to
cover the tripod if you shoot panos "quick and dirty" without own zenith-
(top-image) and nadir-image.
It would be cool if transition/animation would be possible when you switch
from one pano to the other. A zoom-in on the hotspot after clicking it
looks nice
greets
Leo
Am 30.08.2012, 19:39 Uhr, schrieb Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch>:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Jes�s Ruiz Garc�a wrote:
So far, all the more powerful virtual tours I've seen, are made in
Flash.
Usually, these tours are created with the following applications:
*Easypano Virtual Tour Software*, *3DVista*, *Flashificator*, *Autopano
Tour
* and some others.
An example of Easypano virtual tour:
http://www.vitaldent.com/nuestras_clinicas.jsp
Other examples using 3DVista:
http://www.3dvista.com/virtual-tours-samples.htm
I've been reviewing whether some library is being developed to support
the
creation of these applications on HTML5. I found a project called
Pannellum, which uses WebGL:
http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2012/05/28/introducing-pannellum/
For now though it works properly on Chrome, but isn't powerful or
beautiful, as are the tours developed with Flash applications.
My proposal is to give more support to this type of works.
To add support for these, we need to know what they need. What is the Web
platform missing that will help with such virtual tours?
We could create a new tag called "tour" or something similar. If video
and audio have own tag, also a tour could be differentiated from the
other elements of the website.
What would such an element do?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Jes�s Ruiz Garc�a wrote:
Surely with Canvas (WebGL) can be created perfectly virtuals tours. I'll
try to do some testing and I will comment on results.
I believe Google Maps can be made to use WebGL for its street view tours.
By the way, what label should be used to indicate this type of media?.
Canvas?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you elaborate?
