Panorama Stitchers
Sponsors of the Panoramic Network: Photovista
,
Panavue Image Assembler, Panoweaver
| Stitcher Software |
Features |
Windows |
OSX |
Linux |
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Autopano Pro
Kolor
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- Clean and easy interface
- Fully automatic stitching
- Powerful color correction engine
- Integrated Smartblend technology to remove ghost
- Full HDR stitching support
- Support for hundred of file formats ( including RAW from many camera
manufacturers )
- Output formats : JPG, TIFF, PNG, HDR and Adobe Photoshop PSD, PSB
- Virtual file writer on any format to render big panorama without much
RAM
- Batch rendering manager
- Control Point Editor to manage complicated case
- Multiple processor support
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Yes
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Yes
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TBA
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Calico
Kekus Digital
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Multi-row GUI stitcher for non-professionals |
TBA
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Yes
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No
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Hugin
SourceForge Project
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- combine overlapping images for
panoramic photography
- correct complete panorama images that are e.g. "wavy" due to a badly
leveled
panoramic camera
- stitch large mosaics of images and photos, e.g. of long walls or large
microscopy samples
- find control points and optimize parameters with the help of software
assistants/wizards
- output several
projection types like equirectangular, Mercator, cylindrical,
stereographic and sinusoidal
- advanced photometric corrections and HDR stitching
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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PanaVue
ImageAssembler
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Purchase ImageAssembler Standard Edition: The Standard Edition has
all the functionality you need to stitch panoramas and mosaics.
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Purchase ImageAssembler Professional Edition: The Professional Edition
has all the features of the Standard Edition plus the power to
stitch huge images, professional color handling, easy post-production
retouching integrated with Photoshop, and a sophisticated system for
handling hand-held and hard-condition photos.
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Purchase ImageAssembler Professional Edition: The Enterprise Edition
has all the power of the Professional Edition plus the capability
of being called from another application, thus automating the stitching
of images in batch. This edition will let you embed the functionality of
ImageAssembler into your own application.
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Yes |
No |
No |
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Panorama
Factory |
- Easy to use
- A Wizard helps you create new stitching projects with just a few
mouse clicks.
- Automatic detection of focal length.
- Detection of camera rotation and tilt.
- Easy rotation of imported images.
- Includes a library of over 800 digital camera models including
digital SLRs.
- Available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Catalan,
Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and Russian. Online help is "bilingual"
(commands, buttons, etc. in the local language with explanations in
English).
- Lets you save user preferences for all applicable dialogs.
- Includes automatic and manual "de-ghosting" tools.
- Automatically or manually correct barrel distortion and brightness
falloff.
- Support for immersive virtual
reality:
- Output to QTVR, IVR, PTViewer or HTML image map format.
- Use hotspots to create virtual tours by hyperlinking from one VR
image to another.
- Import existing VR images in order to edit and re-export them in
other formats.
- Create web pages from pre-defined templates or templates you create
yourself.
- Create thumbnail index web pages.
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Yes |
No |
No |
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Panorama Tools
SourceForge Project
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- Command line stitcher developed by Helmut Dersch
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Panorama Studio |
- Creates seamless 360 degree and wide angle panoramas.
Stitches your photos to huge panoramic images within minutes:
- Automatic stitching, enhancing and blending of your photos
- Clear and easy user interface, large work space
- Uses Exif data of digital cameras
- Automatic focal length detection, perspective correction, automatic
correction of lens distortions
- Edit QuickTimeVR and Java hotspots
- Prints panoramas as posters on multiple pages with the integrated
poster printing function
- Export your panoramas in common image formats, as QuickTimeVR or as
interactive Java panorama.
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Yes |
No |
No |
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Easy To Use
Photovista - iSee
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Photovista Panorama
Photovista Panorama 3.0: Create 360° high-resolution,
moving panoramas that site visitors can zoom and pan to move from one room
or scene to another.
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Photovista 3D ObjectsPhotovista
3D Objects lets you quickly create
detailed, photo-realistic, 3D image objects that visitors to your Web site
can pick up and rotate at the click of a mouse. Precise editing features
lets you work with popular image files to mask, center, layout and output
3D image objects for the Web. The files are compact and your visitors can
view them on any browser without a plug-in.
Photovista 3D Objects works in mu ch the same way as PhotoVista Panorama,
stitching together a series of still photos to create a 3D object. Simply
take photos of your object from the same height and angle from all 360°.
Photovista 3D Objects can handle up to 180 photos, (one for every two
degrees), giving you as much detail and rotation as you want. Then add
your photos into the new project and click on the preview button to get a
working copy of what your 3D image will look like in it's rotation.
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Photovista Virtual Tour Business Edition
Photovista Virtual Tour Business 3.2 is
composed of the following programs: Photovista Panorama 3.0:
Create 360° high-resolution, moving panoramas that site visitors can zoom
and pan to move from one room or scene to another. - NEW! Vista
Organizer: is the fastest, and easiest-to-use full-featured media
editor available for Windows. Designed to help users manage edit and share
their photos, videos, audio files and 360° panoramas. - Virtual
Tour Maker: Easily create, add and remove hotspots that link
panoramas, images and Web pages to create your online tour. You can even
add multiple hotspots to several different locations. - NEW! Vista
Works: Easily preview and edit your virtual tour into an HTML
page with this full-featured yet simple HTML editor. Comes with several
preset HTML templates to work from and lets you customize text, images,
links, and layout of your html page and virtual tour. - VuForge:
Allows users to customize the look and feel of the Java Viewer toolbar,
remove buttons, and alter the splash screen.
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Reality Studio
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Reality Studio 2.0 Box Reality Studio 2 is the latest professional
multimedia toolkit from iseemedia. Web developers now have the most
comprehensive set of tools to create, view and manage rich immersive and
interactive content for Web and multimedia presentations - including
panoramas and 3D objects. Sophisticated results with easy-to use tools -
you can immediately start creating photorealistic panoramas and linking
them to other scenes, objects and URLs. The newly developed intuitive user
interface presents integrated viewports, project management features and
asset libraries for organizing image-based objects, 3D geometry, Flashpix
images, sounds, video and other files.
New Features Include:
- New and improved user interface
- Open Plug-in architecture in Reality Studio supports Photoshop
compatible plug-ins so you can apply special effects on your images or
panoramas
- Starting point of an immersive world can be a panorama, an image
(JPEG or FPX), an image object or a video
- Embed different background audio for each individual panorama
- Includes file preview of objects, panels and FPX images
- Includes anti-aliasing for embedded objects, images and video
- Improved Viewer Plug-in for better display and performance
- Allows users the ability to perform multiple actions with a single
click
- World maps can be exported as a navigation image map
- Supports streaming audio and video files including MP3, MPEG4 and
QuickTime
- Includes the latest iseemedia Viewers
- Support for creating your tour onto a CD-ROM
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Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Panoweaver
Easypano
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- Flash output
- Smart Blend plugin.
- 16 bit image support
- Camera Raw image support
- HDR image creation
- HDR to LDR image conversion
- Right Click stitching from Windows Explorer
- Dual circular fisheye stitching support
- Unwrap a single fisheye image
- Wide angle lens stitching
- Batch stitching
- Navigation Chart
- Project resume
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Yes
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No
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No
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PTAssembler
TawbaWare
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- Autocreate a final panorama with little or no manual intervention.
- A "wizard" is included to guide beginners through the process of
manually creating a panorama.
- Extensive tool-tip help. Rest the mouse over any control for help.
- No need to interact with Panorama Tools' scripts.
- Ability to read EXIF data from JPEG and TIFF files.
- No need to manually set yaw, pitch or roll for any images.
- Control points can set manually or detected automatically via plugin
programs.
- Graphical selection of yaw, pitch and roll parameters for a reference
image.
- Built-in "auto-optimization" logic to determine best positioning of
image files.
- Optimized results are analyzed and suggestions are made for how to
correct any problems.
- Batch processing -- run multiple projects in sequence.
- Store retrieve parameters quickly via lens presets.
- Work with 'linked' or 'unlinked' lens parameters for maximum
flexibility.
- Drag and Drop interface.
- Most features are accessible via keyboard commands.
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Yes
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No
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No
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PTBatch
Kekus Digital
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Batch stitcher based on Panorama Tools |
No
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Yes
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No
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PTgui
New House Internet Services BV.
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- Create spherical, cylindrical or flat panoramas from any number of
source images.
- Fully automated: create single row, multiple row or fully spherical
panoramas in just a few mouse clicks.
- Realtime preview of final panorama: you can instantly see what your
final panorama will look like.
- Panorama editor for visual and interactive parameter editing: Move
your images with the mouse to change yaw, roll and pitch parameters.
Perspective is corrected in real time.
- PTGui can stitch huge panoramas. Stitching 200 images into a multiple
gigapixel panorama is no problem.
- Fully 16 bit capable: PTGui suports a 16 bit workflow from start to
finish, for the best image quality.
- Layered output: PTGui can create multi layer Photoshop files, for
flexible post processing.
- Reads EXIF information from images produced by digital cameras, to
determine the lens parameters.
- Create templates with frequently used settings (you will find some
here).
- Batch stitcher: prepare any number of panoramas and stitch them later
without user intervention.
- Create a printable PhiloSpere of your panorama.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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PTMac
Kekus Digital
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Command line stitcher based on Panorama Tools |
No
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Yes
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No
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Stitcher
Realviz
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- Fully automatic, fully spherical stitching engine
- Full 3D user interface
- Automatic, semi-automatic, manual and forced stitching methods
- Real time preview
- 3D stencils
- Creation of movies from keyframes in various formats
- Fish-eye stitching
- Embedded Smart Blend technology for rendering
- Several new options for publishing panoramas on the Internet
- Java-based Pure Player from ImmerVision
- Shockwave 3D-based Spi-V Viewer from Field-Of-View
- KML-based export to geo-reference panoramas using Google Earth browser
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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VR Worx
VR Toolbox
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A suite of VR authoring tools for QuickTime™ |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Panorama Viewers
| Viewers |
Features |
Type |
JPEG |
QTVR |
FLASH |
Windows |
OSX |
Linux |
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DevalVR
Phoscode S.L.
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- Full formats support: QTVR(cubic, cylindrical, objects) or
JPEG(spherical, cylindrical)
- No library dependencies, only 250 KB download for plugin.
- Multi-language (19 languages) with full Unicode support (for Asian
languages)
- Hardware acceleration support (very smooth movement in large screens)
- Highly customizable through text script files (user interface,
hotspots, automatic sequences ...)
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Plug-in, Standalone and Screensaver |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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HD View
Microsoft
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Panoramic zoom viewer (Beta) |
Plug-in |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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PTViewer
Fulvio Senore
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- A new Lanczos2 interpolator shows sharper images.
- Panning speed is now faster and smoother.
- The applet draws to the screen using hardware acceleration when using
the Sun Java VM on Windows.
- The applet can now display panoramic images in a new custom format. It
is possible to progressively load large images, showing first the part
that the user is currently looking at.
- With the new custom file format it is possible to use encrypted images
that will not work if used in another site.
- A new integrated toolbar can be used to show three buttons: zoom in,
zoom out and show/hide hotspots. The zoom buttons work as long as you keep
pressing them, the zoom in/zoom out button always stays in sync with the
applet status.
- When using autopanning the applet can now rotate at a fixed speed,
regardless of the CPU speed.
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Applet |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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PURE Player
ImmerVision
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Multi-platform panorama viewer |
Applet and Standalone (for Pocket PC) |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Quicktime
Apple
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Multi-function media player with cubic VR support |
Plug-in |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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SPi-V
fieldOfView
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- High fidelity, antialiased graphics
- Full screen, silky smooth navigation
- Fully interactive userinterface and hotspot capabilities
- Higly customisable branding options
- Full, 8 bit transparency support
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Plug-in |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Panorama Utilities
| Utility Software |
Features |
Windows |
OSX |
Linux |
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Pano2QTVR
Thomas Rauscher
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- Create cylindrical and cubic panoramas
- Create object movies
- Export the panoramas as Macromedia Flash (swf) file
- Export the object movies as Macromedia Flash (swf) file
- Create up to 255 hotspots
- Create a grayscale or colored preview track with a chosen reduction
factor
- Generate subtiles for progressive download and rearranging them for
the default viewing direction
- All major QuicktimeVR parameters can be set for example fov, pan,
tilt, protection, compressed headers, userdata,...
- Spot the detail for the initial viewing parameters, and grab this
position
- Spot the detail in the next linked movie for virtual tours
- High quality is enabled (more information)
- Extract the cube faces for retouching and assemble them to the final
output
- Direct usage of the pano12.dll (if available), no annoying pop-up
windows between the steps
- Manipulate nearly all parameters with the GUI
- Multiple, structured config files
- Droplets for Drag & Drop batch processing of multiple files
- Import up to 10 sprite-tracks, sound files, images, Flash movies,...
- Background sound for panoramas
- Import autorotate sprite for panoramas
- Create thumbnails from the source image (GIF, TIFF and PNG also with
transparent channel)
- Create HTML Files for Quicktime, DevalVR and PTViewer
- Create vertical Image strips for SPi-V and Immervision Pure Player
- Objects: Specify animation and autoplay speed with rotation or
ping-pong
- Objects: Unlimited viewstates and animations
- Objects: Different controllers like grabber, joystick and absolute
position
- More than 100 scriptable parameters
- Use the output files for commercial purposes
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Yes
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No
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No
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PTLens
Tom Niemann
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- Batch processing
- Correct distortion
- Correct vignetting
- Correct perspective
- Correct chromatic aberration
- Auto-detect make/model
- Adjustable focal length
- Color profiles preserved
- IPTC headers preserved
- XMP data preserved
- 16-bit support
- TIFF and raw support
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Yes
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No
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No
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Smartblend
Michael Norel
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Image blending and contrast correction |
Yes
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No
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No
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Virtual Tour Builders
| VT Software |
Features |
Windows |
OSX |
Linux |
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CubicConnector
Click Here Design
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- Importing source nodes
- Defining hotspots
- Connecting hotspots to their destinations
- Previewing the connected movie
- Exporting a multinode or HTML-linked movie
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No
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Yes
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No
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JATC
panoclub
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- Creation of complex pano tours or simple single pano
- Defining hotspots interactively
- Supporting point and polygonal hotspots
- Automatic hotspot creation
- Defining nadir/cap/flat image
- Defining map/floorplan (only SPi-V and PurePlayerPro)
- Preview of tour/pano
- Creation of preview images for panos
- Create a tour to be viewed with PurePlayer or SPi-V
- Save and load tour to/from JATC project file
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Yes
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No
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No
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PanoModules |
- Build complex virtual tour of any
configuration only with your favorite HTML and CSS tools within typical
web design workflow. To build a complex online virtual tour
with PanoModules is not harder than to place several DIVs on a page.
- There are no restrictions for
layout, structure, and visual style of a virtual tour. Modules
have no fixed make-up, size, or position, so you can organically build
them into any web page and create any visual style with CSS. It means,
you can make a virtual tour just as you want.
- Manage content of your virtual tour
online in-place. Modules have special embedded content
management system. The server-side part of this system is open and can
be adapted or fully rewritten as you need.
- Rebuild your virtual tour, remove
or add new modules without changing existing content. New and
upgraded modules are free and always available for
download.
- Your virtual tour is completely
yours. It resides on your web site and all its files hosted on
your server. You can manage it so as you wish.
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Pleinpot
fevrier
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- New custom controller for QuickTime
- More space available in comment field
- FOV correction Tag for QuickTime Plug-in
- Supports PangeaVR, Flash, SPi-V and Java viewers
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Tourweaver
Easypano
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- Full screen for both scene viewer and map viewer
- Multiple maps
- Walkthrough effect
- More audio formats supported
- Video Tour
- Dynamic Text
- Active panel
- Hundreds of different actions for components
- Stronger customization
- More source images supported
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Yes
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No
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No
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Virtual Tour Builder
Spherical Panorama Inc.
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- Visual modes: Visual skin - Expo - Full Screen - Flash-Terminal -
Plasma - ScreenSaver - JavaScript/Java Html web page
- Video in pano mode (up to 10) movie video points with zoom for each
panorama.
- Compass and Micro positioning on Map for the Expo mode
- Advertising support in the Expo mode
- Special support executable, Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox
- Custom User Graphic skin
- User title module and more other
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Yes
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No
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No
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VR SceneWorx
VR Toolbox
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Quicktime multi-node tour builder |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Software
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