News from the Gnomes

Needless to say, we’ve been busy and we have a lot of news to share. It’s a doozy of post. Today, we have released Pano2VR 5.1 and Pano2VR 5.2 beta. Summary (TL;DR) Pano2VR 5.1 is out of beta! Download – Videos We are also introducing Pano2VR 5.2 beta that includes a Google Street View Export. Video...

Today, we’re happy to release an update to Pano2VR 5.1 beta! In this update, you’ll find the following changes: Exif data is preserved when converting images and outputting via Transformation Video panoramas can be used with the Animation Editor and exported on Windows Custom node IDs for direct node access has been added When width is 0, auto sizing...

This is a bug fix release for Pano2VR 5.0. The following issues have been fixed: Fix for Android/Firefox roll bug in cardboard Fix for iframe flickering in iOS 10 Added Portuguese (Brazil) translation Disabled file size for all tiles Added p2q_embed_object.js back for QTVR export Grab the update from our download page. Book: Panorama Fotografie We would also like to inform our German-speaking...

Getty Images has been publishing Year in Focus for iBooks every year since 2011. The book tells a tale of the world for the past 365 days with images and videos. For the past few years, they’ve also included 360º panoramas created with the Pano2VR iBook widget. If you haven’t already done so we suggest...

Getty Images has been publishing Year in Focus for iBooks every year since 2011. The book tells a tale of the world for the past 365 days with images and videos. For the past few years, they’ve also included 360º panoramas created with the Pano2VR iBook widget. If you haven’t already done so we suggest...

We are very happy to release Pano2VR 5 which is a major update with a lot of new features. The most significant change being how fast you can get things done. Pano2VR 5 Pano2VR’s new interface is flexible and customizable. It also features an interactive, central viewer that provides precise placement of hotspots, lens flares, patches,...

Today, we are releasing a new beta version of Pano2VR 5. We are now really close to the final release, but some changes and delays made a new beta necessary. Here are the highlights: New simplex_v5 skin Alternative map providers in the skin Cardboard (VR) template and skin are included by default And notable bugfixes Flash background sound was not playing. Skin:...

Today, we are releasing a new beta version of Pano2VR 5. We are getting much closer to the final release, but first we would like to get a few more things fixed: Offline Help Flash fallback player behind HTML5 Skin New “silhouette” skin components “is Mobile” in skin logic block A lot of bug fixes You can download the latest version...

If you’re getting a Ricoh Theta this holiday, then here are a couple of Pano2VR 5 tips to add to the fun. The Theta Tour The second explores some of the features found in Pano2VR 5 that help in building good-looking tours. It also goes over features like automatic and manual leveling as well as the fine-tuning...

It has been way too long since our last “in the Wild” post! So, without further ado, we’d like to introduce you to this project by Harald Joergens. Harald created a virtual tour of the President narrow steamboat that was used to deliver goods on the canals between central England and London in the beginning of the...

It has been way too long since our last “in the Wild” post! So, without further ado, we’d like to introduce you to this project by Harald Joergens. Harald created a virtual tour of the President narrow steamboat that was used to deliver goods on the canals between central England and London in the beginning of the...

Martin has prepared more tips for Pano2VR 5! He’s a tip-producing machine! The Color Tool If you work with a lot of custom skins, you might be happy to learn about the Color Tool found in the Skin Editor. The little but mighty tool lets you quickly and easily change the color theme of skin or even...

We are happy to release a new beta of Pano2VR 5. New features/changes in the this version: Flat images in HTML5 Flash export reenabled Smoother playback on iOS Automatic color profile conversion Linux version available A lot of bug fixes You can download the latest version from the Pano2VR page.

If you’ve been following our posts since June 2015, you may have noticed that we launched the beta version of Pano2VR 5. There are so many new features that we are constantly adding tips and tutorials so you can learn how to use them. Adding Google Maps One of the features is the ability to easily add...

Today, we’ve got a getting started tutorial that we hope will help you to quickly get up and running with version 5. In the tutorial we cover basic workflows for both Pano2VR and Pano2VR pro. In Pano2VR we add hotspots and patches. We also fine-tune the leveling on a Theta image. For Pano2VR pro, we...

There are a lot of new features in Pano2VR 5 and we want to help you learn about them, of course. To start, did you know that in version 5, you can animate your panorama? That means you can automate the movement (pan, tilt, zoom) through the panorama. The Animation Editor has a timeline (similar to...

Pano2VR 5 beta 2 is out and it’s version 5’s first bug fix release. We’ve fixed the most annoying bugs: Crashing on Mac OS 10.7/10.8 HTML5 directional sound bug in Chrome & Firefox that caused the panorama to freeze Horizontal/vertical FoV mixup in animation output that caused the framing to not match on output Changed placement for skin components when...

Pano2VR 5 got lots of new powerful features and I bet there’s one you may have seen and been wondering about: variables. You’ll find them in the Skin Editor and they have plenty of uses. In fact, too many to write in one post or even a single tutorial. But you’re in luck, because Martin created...

It’s been incubating for a while now, but finally, it is here … Pano2VR 5 (beta)! We are more excited than usual with this release because it is the biggest update we’ve done since moving from Pano2QTVR. We hope that you’ll find this news also exciting. This is just the shortlist of what’s new: New interface with a...