Aug 05
Just for the record, you can download the HD View browser plugin and the HDMake utility to create your own HD View content from here (this link is hard to find when navigating from the HD View home page). I still believe this to be revolutionary viewing technology, IF Microsoft Research follow through on this and create plugins for the most-popular browsers and computing platforms. The inspiration for the project came from the Gigapxl project but even with smaller resolution HD View makes it so much easier to publish large panoramic images as there is
- no need to resize images to fit the screen, viewer or QTVR container,
- no need to optimize for fast viewing as there is no download of the entire image as with QTVR and other viewers, the server just streams the necessary pixels at the request of the plugin,
- no need to obfuscate the image (i.e. prevent users from downloading the entire copyrighted panorama) as is virtually (no pun intended) impossible with QTVR and difficult with the Java-based viewers (usually accomplished by read protecting image folders on the server).
It’s really just snap>stitch>hdmake>upload. Fantastic.
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