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April 12, 2021
The Garden Gnome Package Viewer is now available on iOS and Android! The app lets you view your Pano2VR and Object2VR projects offline and on mobile devices.
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June 20, 2018
The folk at 360imagery are masters at their craft and create custom tours for all sorts of clients. Their portfolio is extensive; from hotels to health clubs to auto interiors. We’ve found a few projects we’d like to share with you.
October 5, 2016
It’s hump day. A good day for a bug-fix release, wouldn’t you say? Object2VR 3.1.1 is available and fixes a bug that was occurring with macOS X Sierra. But, we didn’t just fix bugs, we also added touch support for Microsoft Edge. Grab the update from the Downloads section. You can also go to Help > Check...
April 15, 2016
Remember BRIGHT? We featured their work a few years ago for their Pano2VR projects. Now, we are focusing on their work done with Object2VR. In their latest project, they created a unique training experience for airBaltic. Using Object2VR, they created an object movie of an airBaltic Boeing 737. You can see how they did that with...
March 10, 2016
It has been a while, yes, but today we are releasing Object2VR 3.1.0! In this version we have made a lot of fixes and some fine-tunings, including the improving of the HiDPI support for HTML5. We have added support for the following Canon cameras: EOS 5DS / EOS 5DS R / EOS 760D / EOS 750D The...
January 30, 2015
Sometimes your client and/or project requires not only an offline project, but also one that doesn’t require a web browser when outputting to HTML5. So, here’s a tip that helps tremendously with these situations. It utilizes a JavaScript platform, called NW.js and just using a bit of code, you can turn your project into a...
August 1, 2014
It’s probably safe to say that most object movies are products; items that we wish to sell or show off in some way. Sometimes, an item comes along that has wonderful detail that should be shown to the viewer. You can use multiresoltion of course, but how can you guarantee that the user will not only...
July 24, 2014
Interactive panoramas and object movies are inherently meant to be shared online. Most of us share our interactive versions by sharing a link to a panorama or object movie on social networks; most notably, Facebook. Not long ago, Facebook allowed videos to play back automatically within the news feed. They are using the Flash player which...
June 11, 2014
Better late than never! The last post from our … in the Wild series was all the way back in April. Today, we would like to highlight a project that crossed our screens months ago and that would be the work done by Studio PLAAT based in Amsterdam. Studio PLAAT has done a lot of...
June 11, 2014
Better late than never! The last post from our … in the Wild series was all the way back in April. Today, we would like to highlight a project that crossed our screens months ago and that would be the work done by Studio PLAAT based in Amsterdam. Studio PLAAT has done a lot of...
May 16, 2014
Our latest tutorial shows how quickly you can touch up your object images after you’ve captured or imported them into Object2VR. You can: – crop, – sharpen, – mask, – adjust levels and white balance, and – fix any drifting that may have occurred. The image processing feature is found in both Object2VR pro and Object2VR studio....
May 6, 2014
After a long beta phase we are happy to announce the final release of Object2VR 3.0. Object2VR Studio Promo The major new features compared to Version 2 are: Image Processing (Object2VR pro) Turntable and Camera Control (Object2VR studio) HTML5 Multiresolution support Polygon and point hotspots New skin editor GGPKG support And we also have a new feature that was not included in...
April 30, 2014
For many of us, it’s necessary to include multilingual projects to reach a larger audience. Hopki posted earlier this month, as a response to a question posed on the forum, a way to incorporate multiple languages into your project using point hotspots, PNGs, and the skin editor. This way you don’t have to code it....
April 15, 2014
The biggest advantage of Object2VR studio is that you can simplify and quicken your workflow through automation. Plug in both your turntable and camera to the computer, connect them, enter the number of rows and columns you’ll be shooting and let Object2VR studio take it from there. To better help you understand the workflow or to...
April 1, 2014
Back in August, we updated the Skin Editor with Pano2VR 4.5 beta 1. That update included a completely new user interface and lots of new features to make building skins a lot easier. A few weeks ago, we added this to our latest beta release of Object2VR. So, we figured it was a good time...
March 19, 2014
We are happy to release another beta of Object2VR. The major new feature is the new Skin Editor, originally introduced in Pano2VR 4.5 beta. New Skin Editor – Pano2VR 4.0 Please also have a look at the Skin editor documentation to find your way around the new interface. Another new feature is the HTML5 output with the...
March 4, 2014
Last week, Hopki posted a tip for Object2VR. For those of you who want to get a bit more creative, this tip will show you how to have a spinning object within a spinning object. This is done by using an iFrame within the URL field of a hotspot and then using a hotspot template in...
January 21, 2014
In September 2013, we released Plugins for both WordPress and Joomla with a promise that a Drupal plugin was on its way. Well, here it is! The Drupal plugin is ready for download and you can read about it in the documentation. The plugins let you post your projects to your CMS easily in a neat...
November 18, 2013
Perhaps it goes without saying, but Object2VR is great software for product photography and Photospherix has wonderful examples of this. Take this showing of rings, for example. A simple interface is all that’s needed for browsing these single-row object movies. It kind of makes you want to buy one of them, doesn’t it? Are you into model...
September 4, 2013
Today we proudly announce the first (beta) release of CMS plugins to easily put Pano2VR and Object2VR content on your WordPress or Joomla site. The plugins can be downloaded for free from here. (The Drupal plugin will be available soon) You can find the documentation here. Output which can be used with these plugins has to be...

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