News from the Gnomes

Considering that many in the world are self-isolating, social-distancing, or in quarantine, we thought that sharing VR tours and images may help the isolation.

The days of 2017 have gone by quickly but we don’t want to forget them as the year closes out. Market at Karlsplatz Vienna Austria 2017 This year we celebrated Pano2VR’s 10th birthday! That’s right, 10 wonderful years. We thank you all for being part of our community and helping to make Pano2VR what it is...

Pano2VR 5.2.2 Released Today, we’ve released an update to Pano2VR with some more bug fixes and changes: Image download could get stuck if there was no interaction Fix for large Street View accounts with > 10.000 photos The Street View Browser now merges tours with the same PlaceID, but no connections Improved gyro script to avoid an “upside down” bug...

Today, we’ve got some good stuff for you! The third edition of Thomas Bredenfeld’s book (auf Deutsch) and a new Lynda.com course both feature Pano2VR and we’ve added a new forum section for skin components. Digitale Fotopraxis Panoramafotografie For our German-speaking friends, Thomas Bredenfeld has published the third edition of his training book for creating panoramas. We...

If you are like me, you might have been a little sad about not being at the IVRPA conference this year. You may have been even more sad to have missed Thomas’ talk (which was also streamed live). Thomas presented features that will come to Pano2VR 5.1 and gave a sneak peak into Object2VR 4. Here...

If you are like me, you might have been a little sad about not being at the IVRPA conference this year. You may have been even more sad to have missed Thomas’ talk (which was also streamed live). Thomas presented features that will come to Pano2VR 5.1 and gave a sneak peak into Object2VR 4. Here...

Are you going? In a few weeks we’ll be at the 2015 edition of the IVRPA Conference and man, are we looking forward to it! If you haven’t already heard, we will be presenting Pano2VR version 5! Version 5 will come packed with a lot of new features and we can’t wait to show you. Our presentation...

Photokina officially starts on Tuesday the 16th and we’ll be there! We will be sharing a stand with XY Imager in hall 4.1 (stand H042). Swing by and say hello! We forgot to mention that we were at the PanoTools meeting in Paris a few weeks ago. We all had a great time. Thanks goes to...

We have just produced a new tip covering how to package the Flash output from either Object2VR or Pano2VR using the Flash Player Projector. This also packages the player with the files so they can be played on a computer even if it does not have Flash installed. The Tip can be found here.

We have just released a new tip covering how to use GoodReader to view Object2VR or Pano2VR HTML5 outputs offline using an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. The tip can be found here.

Again, we are sponsoring the Epson International Pano Awards which… …showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest and most important competition for panoramic photography. Last year, the Epson International Pano Awards added a category for VR panoramas and this year is no different. If you’re looking for a challenge – being up...

Hopki Media provides Skin Packs for Pano2VR to help you to get started with the skin editor and provides additional skins aside from the default skins included with Pano2VR. They also create customs skins for you to give your panoramas a unique look if you don’t want to learn to create your own skins. Visit their...

The first German Panorama Training DVD with spoken text covers the full panorama creation process with several panorama programs including Pano2QTVR. More information can be found at: video2brainand addison-wesley. The DVD can be ordered at amazon.de.