- From: Leo Willner <leo.willner@chello.at>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:55:31 +0200
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
To throw in my 5 cents: If tour is just needed for panos we could do a <pano>-tag, for that we need the distorted 360°-pano-image and do a rendering of it in the browser into a 360°-pano. What's needed is something like: + image-source + image-width and height + tilt- and pan-angle + initial field of view (fov) definition + min and max for tilt, pan and fov + an auto-setting for automatic playback + quality-settings for how exactly the rendering is done. + maybe an attribute to number the panos if you wanna make a tour + maybe an attribute for cylindrical or spheric pano + maybe preloading-images if it's an hires-pano It is not a complete list A good link for how pano-viewing works is: http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/PTVJ/doc.html For connecting a pano with another one you need to create a hotspot. So maybe a <hotspot>-tag should be possible in the <pano>-tag or the <a>-element with attributes: + location on the image: x and y (CSS:position, top, left) + width and height (CSS) + maybe action-status: what action should be done on clikcing the hotspot and how long, before the target-pano is loaded Something else needed would be a possibility to cover the nadir (bottom of a pano) with a logo etc. with the use of an image or by inserting a caption (rectangle over the whole bottom with text) onto the pano-image which would then render in the pano itself as circle. This is used to cover the tripod if you shoot panos "quick and dirty" without own zenith- (top-image) and nadir-image. It would be cool if transition/animation would be possible when you switch from one pano to the other. A zoom-in on the hotspot after clicking it looks nice greets Leo Am 30.08.2012, 19:39 Uhr, schrieb Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Jes�s Ruiz Garc�a wrote: >> >> So far, all the more powerful virtual tours I've seen, are made in >> Flash. >> Usually, these tours are created with the following applications: >> *Easypano Virtual Tour Software*, *3DVista*, *Flashificator*, *Autopano >> Tour >> * and some others. >> >> An example of Easypano virtual tour: >> http://www.vitaldent.com/nuestras_clinicas.jsp >> >> Other examples using 3DVista: >> http://www.3dvista.com/virtual-tours-samples.htm >> >> I've been reviewing whether some library is being developed to support >> the >> creation of these applications on HTML5. I found a project called >> Pannellum, which uses WebGL: >> http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2012/05/28/introducing-pannellum/ >> For now though it works properly on Chrome, but isn't powerful or >> beautiful, as are the tours developed with Flash applications. >> >> My proposal is to give more support to this type of works. > > To add support for these, we need to know what they need. What is the Web > platform missing that will help with such virtual tours? > > >> We could create a new tag called "tour" or something similar. If video >> and audio have own tag, also a tour could be differentiated from the >> other elements of the website. > > What would such an element do? > > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Jes�s Ruiz Garc�a wrote: >> >> Surely with Canvas (WebGL) can be created perfectly virtuals tours. I'll >> try to do some testing and I will comment on results. > > I believe Google Maps can be made to use WebGL for its street view tours. > > >> By the way, what label should be used to indicate this type of media?. >> Canvas? > > I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you elaborate?
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