News from the Gnomes

The Gnomes have a busy September with Martin speaking about Pano2VR V4 beta at the Pano Tools meeting held in The Hague, Netherlands. Then the following week Thomas will be speaking at the IVRPA one day conference in Cologne, Germany. From there the Gnomes will be at Photokina 2012 from the 18th to 23rd showing off...

Christmas and New Year are approaching fast and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continuing support. A special thanks goes to all that contribute to the forum and help to translate our software into other languages. The Gnomes wish you Happy Holidays and all the very best in 2012.

As you may have heard this year’s IVRPA conference will be in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 5th, 2011 and I will give a short talk about Pano2VR 3. As the whole Garden Gnome team will go to Portugal this may be a good opportunity to meet up with us and other panorama photographers. We...

Finally! We have updated our HTML5/CSS3 tutorial; both the written and the video. HTML5 with CSS3 lets us display and interact with our panoramas without the need for Adobe Flash. This is especially useful if you wish to present your panoramas on any Apple touch device since they do not support Flash. To the tutorial!

This is only a quick note that the first beta of Pano2VR 3.0 has been released. More information will follow soon. The 2 big new features are HTML5 / CSS3 export and multi resolution in Flash. The HTML5 player is a full feature panorama player, with point hotspots, full skin support (your Flash skins should work...

Three new tutorials on adding sound to your panoramas using the sound editor have been added to our tutorial collection: Adding Sounds (A basic how-to guide on using the Sound Editor) About the Modes (A lesson in sound modes) About the Settings (Describes all the settings) As always, we hope you enjoy them and learn something new!