360 degree pano viewer?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

I used to use SaladoPlayer for preparing and viewing 360° navigable
panoramas, but after a system upgrade it no longer ran, and it seems
that the web site is up for sale, so I assume that's the end of
Salado. Does anybody have an alternate suggestion?

Greg
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[Markku Kolkka]

5.6.2016, 10:22, Greg 'groggy' Lehey kirjoitti:
> I used to use SaladoPlayer for preparing and viewing 360° navigable
> panoramas, but after a system upgrade it no longer ran, and it seems
> that the web site is up for sale, so I assume that's the end of
> Salado. Does anybody have an alternate suggestion?

Flash-based players like Salado have no future IMHO. Same applies to
Java-based ones. Try Pannellum: https://pannellum.org/

[dex Otaku]

For what platform?

On Windows, tksharpless' Panini Viewer [https://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/] still functions [tested on Win7, 8.x and 10].

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 1:33:48 -0700, dex Otaku wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 June 2016 02:22:23 UTC-5, Groogle wrote:
>>
>> I used to use SaladoPlayer for preparing and viewing 360° navigable
>> panoramas, but after a system upgrade it no longer ran, and it seems
>> that the web site is up for sale, so I assume that's the end of
>> Salado. Does anybody have an alternate suggestion?
>

> For what platform?

FreeBSD :-)

> On Windows, tksharpless' Panini Viewer
> [https://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/] still functions [tested on
> Win7, 8.x and 10].

From that page, it seems that it will also run on Apple and Linux, and
thus also FreeBSD. But like so many sourceforge projects, there
doesn't seem to be any documentation. I particularly like the
self-referential "Web Site" link.

The description suggests that it has a different function. Can it do
images like at https://pannellum.org/ ?

[Sybren A. Stüvel]

I use Pano2VR, it has an excellent HTML5/CSS/WebGL output.
If you're interested, check https://stuvelfoto.nl/panorama -- all
panoramas were made with Pano2VR. The top 4 were exported with the
latest version, and load faster than the rest due to tiling support &
more efficient code.

Sybren


On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 05:22:19PM +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I used to use SaladoPlayer for preparing and viewing 360° navigable

> panoramas, but after a system upgrade it no longer ran, and it seems
> that the web site is up for sale, so I assume that's the end of
> Salado. Does anybody have an alternate suggestion?
>
> Greg

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[Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)]

I use krpano, that has linux binaries that runs on FreeBSD (I've tested a long time ago, hope they still work).

For a free option, you can try Marzipano. I've tested and liked it very much. You can do the tour online. http://www.marzipano.net/

Carlos E G Carvalho (Cartola)
http://cartola.org/360
http://www.panoforum.com.br/

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[Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)]

And, btw, if you want Salado player (1.3.5) and converter (0.5), I have their latest versions, but I agree that flash is no longer a good option.

Carlos E G Carvalho (Cartola)
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http://www.panoforum.com.br/

[dex Otaku]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 03:48:30 UTC-5, Groogle wrote:

On Monday,  6 June 2016 at  1:33:48 -0700, dex Otaku wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 June 2016 02:22:23 UTC-5, Groogle wrote:
>>
>> I used to use SaladoPlayer for preparing and viewing 360° navigable
>> panoramas, but after a system upgrade it no longer ran, and it seems
>> that the web site is up for sale, so I assume that's the end of
>> Salado.  Does anybody have an alternate suggestion?
>
> For what platform?

FreeBSD :-)

Aha!  I am hardly a real help, then. 

> On Windows, tksharpless' Panini Viewer
> [https://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/] still functions [tested on
> Win7, 8.x and 10].

From that page, it seems that it will also run on Apple and Linux, and
thus also FreeBSD.  But like so many sourceforge projects, there
doesn't seem to be any documentation.  I particularly like the
self-referential "Web Site" link.

The description suggests that it has a different function.  Can it do
images like at https://pannellum.org/ ?

I mistook what you meant by "viewer".  :/

Panini is a viewer in the sense that it uses OpenGL to render an image with a known x*y degrees of view and project it however you want [within its projection style limits, at least].  This doesn't help one post a navigable image in a web page, but it does give you a fast, self-contained, locally-run viewer.

To have a full 360-degree, manipulatable view you don't need to do anything beyond handing it a high-res equirectangular image [or any image with FOV tags, for partial projections].   You can mess with the projection type, viewing angle, rotation, etc. at will. 

It more or less acts as a lens simulator, and lets you save the image as a jpeg if you like what you see.  I lack the skill to get TIFF output working, but the jpegs it puts out are still excellent.

Usage: drop an image with FOV tags on it [the output of Hugin will have these].  Mess with the view.  Click save if you like it.  

[dex Otaku]

Side-note: renderable image size with Panini Viewer is limited to something like the max. texture size of your GPU.