16GB ipad was recently purchased for testing purposes. I'm a web designer and currently involved with a project where we are creating panoramic quicktime VR movies for a museum. The movies showcase different exhibits. Prior to quicktime we were designing these on flash and exporting as swf. Since the ipad didn't support flash we converted to quicktime and I now realize these don't play either... I don't understand why Apple is not supporting quicktime completely on their ipad/iphone when it's their own application. What other options do I have here? Am I going to have to convert everything to html5/css?
Dual G5 1.8/ Dual 800mhz PowerMac G4 / Powerbook G4 1.33mhz / BW G4 500mhz,
Mac OS X (10.4.11),
Intel Mac Pro (2.66 dual core xeon) w/ 5GB DDR / OS 10.5.8
by the way, the problem with converting to html5 is that it will display on Safari fine but it leaves out a lot of other browsers. For example, the apple.com/html5 page which gives an example of a VR done in html5 does not show up in Firefox or IE. This is a major issue as the majority of visitors use those browsers. I can't just design for Apple users. It needs to be cross-platform which is why I was hoping quicktime was the answer.
I have a similar problem. I am a photographer and shoot both 360 panoramas as you mention plus revolving product shots. I prefer these to be VR where the viewer can click and drag to rotate the product. The various software I use to create these can output as either quicktime or flash, but neither will play on the iPad.
A current UK tv advertisement for the iPad shows an iPad user dragging with his fingers on the screen to rotate an object so it obviously is possible to create a version that the iPad can handle, but what format does it need to be and what software can create it?
Apparently the Hermitage app has been removed from the Apple store. A video on YouTube has a user comment it was "because of unofficial notice from Hermitage to Apple." The video of what the app looked like is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7bYwXR70rY
That's really too bad. It's a beautiful app and very well done, even though it was a little confusing to navigate at first. I just looked through it and there doesn't seem to be any information about who developed it or what was used to make the panoramas (which are very fluid and smooth).
I currently am working with a programmer to develop these into javascript panoramas that launch when ipad is detected. We've got some working but they are nowhere as smooth or clean as flash or quicktime VR. I still can't understand why Apple does not support their own software. This is a real letdown/disappointment.