I just released the first beta of Object2VR a multi platform object movie creator.
The key features are:

• Support for single and multi row object movies
• QuickTime VR export
• Flash 8 and Flash 9 export
• Skins with Skin editor for Flash 9
• Zoom support in QuickTime and Flash
• Progressive download in Flash
• Html templates
• Runs on Windows (>=Windows 2000), Mac OS X (>= 10.4) and Linux.

Known issues and features still missing:

• Import of QuickTime VR files
• Import image strips
• Hotspots
• View states

You can download this version from the Object2VR download page.

Last week we added a new tutorial to the collection: Advanced Flash Export.

This tutorial picks up after the Basic Flash Movie tutorial and I suggest to watch the basic tutorial before watching this advanced tutorial.

You’ll learn about the settings for rendering quality during movement, scaling, the hotspot box and cursor setting plus about the HTML externalize settings.

If you haven’t already noticed, we reorganized the Pano2VR tutorial section on the Tutorials page. Each tutorial description now comes donned with new descriptive icons.

But that’s not all…the tutorials are now available in QuickTime for your viewing pleasure and leisure on your mobile device. Just click on the iPhone icon and the movie will begin downloading. (Clicking on the Flash icon will open the tutorial and it will to play.)

I just posted the final Pano2VR 2.1 version.

Just a reminder for the new 2.1 features:

• Patch tool (watch the tutorial)
• Virtually no image size limits (the 2GB TIFF file size is the only limit)
• Externalize images and skin (create a player with external images)
• Javascript interface (documentation)
• RDF meta data in the Flash SWF file
• Pano2VR is now available in 14 languages.

You can download the new version as always from the Pano2VR download page.

Hi y’all.

There is a shiny new tutorial available: Outputting a Flash Movie: The Basics.

As you may have guessed from the title, it provides a detailed description of the basic parameters and tools for outputting a flash movie from Pano2VR.