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Welcome to our resources page. It is a comprehensive list of tools and programs whose websites you can look to help you make a decision about what ot buy for a VR, or what to use, etc. There are also links to other helpful sites. Look below!
Tools we used to create the site
Computer systems-
Digital Cameras
- FujiFilm Digital Cameras – MX 2700 and FinePix 4900 Zoom
Tripod and tripod head
Turntables
Programs we used to create the site
- For Virtual Reality panoramas we used ---PhotoVista
- For Virtual Reality objects we used --- Apple Quicktime VR Authoring Studio
- For Virtual Reality landscapes we used--- Bryce4
- For website making we used --- Adobe Go Live
- For graphics and image editing we used -- Adobe Photoshop 5.5
- For web animation we used --- Flash 4
- For text and banners we used TypeStyler 3 from- Strider
- Our Java scripts came from --- Freedom VR @ "www.honeylocust.com/vr" and http://www.24fun.com
OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAMS WE USED TO CREATE OUR SITE
Quick Time VR Authoring Studio
This is a great program to create VRs. It allows you to look up, down, left, right, and behind, and it lets you zoom in and out on spots! It also allows you to stitch VR panoramas, or VR objects. A VR panorama is like you are visiting a place, and you can look around you. A VR object is as if you are holding an object, and spinning it to view it from every perspective.
PhotoVista
Photovista is another program that takes the images you have uploaded from your camera and stitches them together into a panorama. It is an inexpensive and easy to use program.
Freedom VR
Freedom VR is a free Javascript that does some of the things that Quicktime VR, and Photovista do but it is free and is a javascript. Being that it is a Javascript, it would seem harder to use, but there is good documentation from the main site . We each created a virtual reality object using the Freedom VR script before we used the programs we purchased for Virtual reality authoring. By the way, if you don't know what Javascript means, a Javascript is a script written in a computer programming language. On the site there is also another Javascript. See below for details.
PictureScroller with fade-effect by Urs Dudli and Peter Gehrig
Copyright (c) 2000 Peter Gehrig and Urs Dudli. All rights reserved.
Permission given to use the script provided that this notice remains as is.
Additional scripts can be found at http://www.24fun.com.
nfo@24fun.ch
6/7/2000
Adobe GoLive 5.0
Adobe GoLive 5.0 is a Web authoring and site management program. It frees us from having to learn how to code html and allows us to spend time on other more creative activities.
Bryce4
Bryce4 is an easy way to create, explore and animate extraordinary imagery. We used it to build 3D landscapes and animation. Visit the VR Landscapes page to view some Bryce landscapes.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is an excellent program for editing and retouching images and for preparing web graphics. We used it a lot to erase the background of white on our object. VR.
TypeStyler3
TypeStyler3 is a program that allows you to quickly create types, text shapes and web graphics.
Books from the school library
The Megatech Series Crabtree Publishing Cyber Space: Virtual reality and the World Wide Web
Weiss, Ann E. Twent-First Century Books Virtual Reality: A Door to Cyberspace
Virtual Reality Panorama & Tour websites
Virtual Reality Object websites
What is Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality in schools
Images showing the various tools we used on this page are taken from the websites of the companies that either sold or made the products.
