On this page I am just playing around with QTVR. (Microsoft IE users: sorry but Microsoft has stopped support for embedding quicktime objects, so you can't see the images embedded in this page. Instead, click on the high-versions to download and see them...). I don't intend to make a new version of my campus stroll, as these QTVR images are LARGE (330K is the minimum for a pretty-sharp looking omniview at 396x120 pixes (this is what the quicktime player says- The JPEG source files are 2963x397 for medium and 7408x992 for high resolution), while the campus stroll images are only about 30K each - and they even look sharper!). Most people have a 33k modem or less, and then 330K means waiting over 2 minutes. Most people won't wait that long if it were not the case that QTVR directly shows parts that have come in.

The Ubicom alley in the ET building. Here is a high (1M7) resolution version.

Above is the demo room of UbiCom. Also in high (1M8) resolution

The computer is a standard pentium PC running realtime Linux. Currently there is one Voodoo2 card for rendering. Two 3D cards (one for each eye) are planned. The cables move into the ceiling and come out just above the headset. The headset is a Protec helmet. The tracker (IS600) is mounted on the ceiling, and is not visible on this picture. The green and yellow objects left of the headset on the wall are planned for calibrating the helmet. The open door gives us a look into the museum, our neighbours.

This is a shot from the museum. Also in high (1M7) resolution.
From left to right I recognise an Apple (IIc?), a BBC, "Portable" IBM-compatible, IBM compatible?, TRS80 model 2, two vt100 terminals, X,X,X, Gould, two monitors and a Commodore PET.

Note how PhotoVista fails to glue the images together correctly in the legs of the tables left of the Gould and the kink in several computers. Maybe the overlap between the photos was too small here. Also note the bends and knicks in the ceiling. This is probably because PhotoVista doesn't correct for the ~8% barrel distortion of my camera, and I don't want to do this stupid job with Photoshop!

High resolution looks better if you want to look at it full-screen or if you want to zoom in extremely (I still did not find out how to scale this in my web page...).

I used a Sony Mavica MVC-FD91 (good colors in bright light, but quite noisy images in low-light situations...) for shooting the images.
PhotoVista was used for stitching the images together (use a tripod if you want it to work right!)
To download the QT image, crtl-click in on the image.