Hardware

Nikon P5000 digital camera. This is used with:
Nikon FC-E8 fisheye converter
Nikon AFCE8NP5000 adaptor
Agnos "Mrotator PM8" tripod head for Nikon FC-E8

Nikon Coolpix 8400 digital camera. This camera is no longer generally available. This is used with:
Nikon FC-E9 fisheye converter
Nikon UR-E16 adaptor
Agnos “Mrotator B” Mrotator tripod head for Nikon FC-E9

Manfrotto Professional tripod

Software

Autopano Pro can stitch a minimum of 3 fisheye photos

Easypano Studio (includes Panoweaver and Tourweaver). Panoweaver can stitch a minimum of 3 fisheye photos

CYLINDRICAL PANORAMIC MOVIES

Hardware

Olympus E20 digital camera

Kaidan 360 One VR Panoramic Tripod Head (plus adaptor for Olympus E20 digital camera)

Manfrotto Professional Tripod. If you wish to use it with the Kaidan 360 One VR Panoramic Tripod Head, you will need a tripod head that can rotate the camera lens vertically upwards.

Software

Kaidan EyeSee 360 (bundled with the Kaidan 360 One VR Panoramic Tripod Head)

VR Worx (to create hotspots in QuickTimeVR movies)

Adobe Photoshop (to create icons on photos)

QuickTime Player

LiveStage Professional 4.5 (to embed directional sound clips into QuickTimeVR movies)

PANORAMIC VIDEO

Pano Pro Click Products > Video for a package of all you need to take, process and publish panoramic video, which includes:
Canon SX1 IS camera, Pano Pro MkIIv mirror, camera-to-mirror tube adapter, Video Publisher software and Flash viewer for internet delivery.

MULTI-ROW OBJECT MOVIES

Hardware

Olympus E20 digital camera
Kaidan Magellan M-2000 multi-row object movie rig

Software

VR Worx
Adobe Photoshop (to resize photos and to create icons on them)
QuickTime Player

OBJECT MOVIES FROM AUTOCAD MODELS

Software

www.sketchup.com
VR Worx
QuickTime Player

WEBCAM
An Axis 221 camera and an Axis 223M camera are used to photograph construction and demolition sites. The free 'AXIS Camera Station One' software can record from one camera. If you wish to record from more than one camera, purchase the 'AXIS Camera Station' software. Recordings can be exported as .avi files, then imported into Adobe Premiere to create a time-lapse movie.
www.axis.com/products/video/camera/index.htm
www.axis.com/products/cam_station_software/index.htm

MULTI-MEDIA DELIVERY

Software

Adobe Dreamweaver (website creation)

Adobe Flash (Flash animation and quiz creation)

Audacity Free audio editor and recorder

Windows Movie Maker (to edit movie clips)
This program can be found on computers running Windows XP by following this sequence:
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Windows Movie Maker

Windows Sound Recorder (to edit audio clips)
This program can be found on computers running Windows XP by following this sequence: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder

PUBLISHING SPHERICAL PANORAMAS IN ADOBE FLASH

Easypano Panoweaver can publish spherical panoramas in Flash.

Flash Panorama Player is not software as such. Rather it is an inexpensive set of Flash .swf files that control panoramas in a web browser. An editable .xml file allows multimedia content, hotspots and web links to be placed within a panorama by adding and adapting some relatively simple code. The cylConverter.swf file enables equirectangular panoramas (Width x Height =2N x N) to be displayed as full spherical panoramas.

To apply graphics onto full spherical equirectangular panorama (Width x Height =2N x N) without distortion, it has to be converted to 6 square cube faces. Professor Helmut Dersch's 'PanoTools' is a free suite of PanoTools 2.6 which was downloaded from: http://www.all-in-one.ee/~dersch/
DOSUP v1.1a (DOS Utilities for Panos) free software was downloaded from: http://www.pinlady.net/vr/ The DOSUP utility 'Pano2Faces.bat' converts an equirectangular input image (Width x Height =2N x N) to 6 rectilinear cube faces. 'Cube2Pano.bat' converts 6 rectilinear cube faces to an equirectangular input image. The ReadMe file that is bundled with the DOSUP download contains instructions for running the DOS Utilities.

Alternatively, this conversion can be done with software such as Ipix Interactive Studio Essentials Pack combined with the Ipix Interactive Studio Format Pack.