First of all, Happy New Year!
We are welcoming 2017 with a few tutorials.

Working in List View

New in Pano2VR version 5, is the helpful List View that lists all the elements that have been added to the Viewer.

In the following tutorial, Martin shows you how to work with it:

Package Viewer

In December, we released a free tool for you to use called the Garden Gnome Package Viewer.

Now we have a short tutorial for it:

Building Tours

Finally, we have a tutorial for building tours in Pano2VR Pro. Here, we go over the basics like importing, manual linking, automatic linking and adding skins:

Did you know…

…that you can tag your images in Pano2VR? Pano2VR will automatically add tags based on the image’s metadata, but you can also add them manually. Tags are especially useful for tours with many nodes. Tutorials on tags are coming soon!

Here’s a great project that is appearing a bit late to the blog (sorry, Christian!).

Apple’s iBooks is a great way to create, publish and distribute a gallery or VR tour (offline!). This is what Christian Kleiman has done with his documentation of the Volvo Ocean Race (a nine month sailing race).

These stills don’t do Christian’s work justice. So, at the least, download the sample book from iBooks. If you don’t have iBooks, then go check out Christian’s work on 360 cities!

If you’re into sailing, then you will certainly enjoy the gallery. If not, then we hope it inspires you to create your own gallery.

If you’re on a Mac, you can download Apple’s iBooks Author and using our iBooks template, you can simply drag the interactive panoramas to the book.

As of this writing, iBooks supports all aspects of a Pano2VR output except 360º video.

Today, we’re happy to release an update to Pano2VR 5.1 beta!

In this update, you’ll find the following changes:

• Exif data is preserved when converting images and outputting via Transformation
• Video panoramas can be used with the Animation Editor and exported on Windows
• Custom node IDs for direct node access has been added
• When width is 0, auto sizing (using the image’s optimal resolution) will be used for Transformation output
• Added an optional rubber band effect at the viewing limits
• Tons of bug fixes

Google Street View Export

Google will retire its Desktop Street View Editor, so we will provide a replacement with Pano2VR 5.2. We will add an additional export format along with HTML5, Flash and QuickTime. We hope to release a beta mid-March.

Tutorial: Using Tags

We also have 3 tutorials for you on using Tags in both Pano2VR and Pano2VR Pro. Check out the playlist below:

Happy December!

We are happy to start this month by featuring an impressive virtual tour built by Lauri Veerde for Tallinn University in Estonia.

Once you step inside you are greeted with a beautiful aerial shot of the campus. The interface (skin) is minimal and the custom hotspots are brilliant. Hovering over them will fill the hotspot with an image and title of where that hotspot is pointing.

I reached out to Lauri to ask him to provide a little info about the project:

The virtual tour of Tallinn University consists of 30 equirectangular panoramas. 1 panorama is shot using a drone. 4 panoramas are shot using a monopod. In 4 panoramas you can see pinned and aligned video (movement inside the photo).

The opening aerial view was shot using a DJI Inspire 1 (with Zenmuse X3) with a total of 21 exposure bracketed images.

You can also see excellent examples of aligned video, too, of which Lauri explains:

From a technical point of view the most challenging part in creating this tour was the pinned and aligned videos - simply because I had not used this technique before. I did not make any tests implementing the video inside panoramas - I just hoped my experience would not fail me. Well it almost did, because later I found out that the movements did not loop so well and the videos were shot with an angle that was almost too wide to stitch. So next time I shoot videos for this kind of work, I will remember to carefully plan the movements of people so the video will be perfectly loop-able.

Lauri brought up a few good points here — to remember to plan the videos for looping and that aligning video can be challenging. So, if you’re looking to include aligned video in your tours, take the time to test it out.

One panorama, The Sound Studio, uses pinned video, aligned video and directional sound.

Another example of aligned video is found in the Ground Floor of the Silva building.

When asked what is his favorite panorama in the tour he mentioned the Ceremonial Hall:

One my favourite panoramas in this tour is the Ceremonial hall because of the captured moment when the graduate, holding a yellow flower, photographed his friend. I have found it is more satisfying for me not to arrange the shoots but to wait for things to happen naturally and try to capture this perfect moment.

We hope you will take the time to check out Lauri’s project and will find some inspiration. You will find more of his work on his website: http://www.tuur.ee.

Learn more:

• Pinned Video
• Directional Sound
• Tour Building
• Aligning Video
• Skin Editor

Happy December!

We are happy to start this month by featuring an impressive virtual tour built by Lauri Veerde for Tallinn University in Estonia.

Once you step inside you are greeted with a beautiful aerial shot of the campus. The interface (skin) is minimal and the custom hotspots are brilliant. Hovering over them will fill the hotspot with an image and title of where that hotspot is pointing.

I reached out to Lauri to ask him to provide a little info about the project:

The virtual tour of Tallinn University consists of 30 equirectangular panoramas. 1 panorama is shot using a drone. 4 panoramas are shot using a monopod. In 4 panoramas you can see pinned and aligned video (movement inside the photo).

The opening aerial view was shot using a DJI Inspire 1 (with Zenmuse X3) with a total of 21 exposure bracketed images.

You can also see excellent examples of aligned video, too, of which Lauri explains:

From a technical point of view the most challenging part in creating this tour was the pinned and aligned videos - simply because I had not used this technique before. I did not make any tests implementing the video inside panoramas - I just hoped my experience would not fail me. Well it almost did, because later I found out that the movements did not loop so well and the videos were shot with an angle that was almost too wide to stitch. So next time I shoot videos for this kind of work, I will remember to carefully plan the movements of people so the video will be perfectly loop-able.

Lauri brought up a few good points here — to remember to plan the videos for looping and that aligning video can be challenging. So, if you’re looking to include aligned video in your tours, take the time to test it out.

One panorama, The Sound Studio, uses pinned video, aligned video and directional sound.

Another example of aligned video is found in the Ground Floor of the Silva building.

When asked what is his favorite panorama in the tour he mentioned the Ceremonial Hall:

One my favourite panoramas in this tour is the Ceremonial hall because of the captured moment when the graduate, holding a yellow flower, photographed his friend. I have found it is more satisfying for me not to arrange the shoots but to wait for things to happen naturally and try to capture this perfect moment.

We hope you will take the time to check out Lauri’s project and will find some inspiration. You will find more of his work on his website: http://www.tuur.ee.

Learn more:

• Pinned Video
• Directional Sound
• Tour Building
• Aligning Video
• Skin Editor

Needless to say, we’ve been busy and we have a lot of news to share. It’s a doozy of post. Today, we have released Pano2VR 5.1 and Pano2VR 5.2 beta.

Summary (TL;DR)

Pano2VR 5.1 is out of beta! Download - Videos
We are also introducing Pano2VR 5.2 beta that includes a Google Street View Export. Video

Pano2VR 5.1 — What’s New

We’ve been in beta for long enough and today we are happy to bring you Pano2VR 5.1 - without the beta. We’ve done a lot since October 2016, so if you haven’t been keeping up with the beta updates then keep reading.

Projections in Viewer and Animation Editor

The main addition to 5.1 is the ability to view and change projections in the Viewer and the Animation Editor.

This allows for a few things to happen. You can, for instance, open or start a panorama from a little planet that transitions to the rectilinear projection. We call this a Fly-in effect.

Another thing you can do with this option is transition to and from different projections in the Animation output. This means you can export a standard video that can show your panorama in multiple projections.

You can also dynamically change projections with skin actions.

Skin Editor

We added two more tools: the Video Element and Seek Bar. The Video Element allows you to easily add videos to your projects, especially pop-ups. The Seek Bar is added so you have a universal seekbar rather than relying on the browser’s.

360º Video Workflow

If you worked with 360 video in Pano2VR before, you had to first convert the video frames to a 3x2 format. You no longer need to do this; just add the equirectangular video to the Video Input section of the Properties Panel.

More great stuff

• Added export for GearVR using the Horizontal Strip (VR) format
• Auto Tagging in Pano2VR Pro
• Custom colors for Polygon Hotspots
• Custom node IDs for direct node access

Pano2VR 5.2 beta — What’s New

The big news is the Street View Export, but there are also some other new features that are also helpful for regular tour building.

Google Street View Export

Pano2VR 5.2 beta features the new Google Street View Export. Just as we promised in our last post, we have integrated the export as part of the software.

Open the Street View Panel from the Toolbar, connect your Google account and upload your project directly to Street View.

To add connections just add hotspots to link the panoramas.

Improved Map View

You can now see linked nodes and you can also create links (hotspots) directly in the map.

Auto Place Hotspots

In the Hotspot Properties panel, you will see a new option called, Auto Place. When this is selected, the hotspot is automatically positioned in the correct location of the linked panorama.

Set North

You can now set North by pressing N and dragging the panorama to achieve the correct heading.

If you have connected hotspots in Pano2VR Pro, you will see a thumbnail of that panorama to help guide placement.

Martin has created a video that shows the process:

Resources

You can read all about the added features in our documentation.

We also have a growing library of video tutorials.

• What’s New in Pano2VR 5.1
• All Pano2VR 5 Tutorials

Today, we’d like to share with you a new beta version of Pano2VR 5.2. We’ve added a few new tools that we hope everyone will find useful.

Blur Patches and Blur Cover

You can now use Patches to blur faces and license plates.

We’ve also added a Blur Cover which is a nadir cap that stretches the outer pixels of the patch towards the center which is then blurred.

Extract Patches in Master Node

You can now extract a patch in the Master Node which will extract the same area in all tour nodes. You can then batch process these in Photoshop (or your favorite editor).

Martin has produced a tutorial for you, showing you how to apply them:

Auto Place Hotspots and Titles

The auto place hotspots feature now uses placeholders for the image’s title. This way, if the image’s title changes, all linked hotspots to that image will have the title changed accordingly (rather than having to manually change each hotspots title).

Zoom and Keyboard Shortcuts in the Skin Editor

In the Skin Editor , we’ve added a keyboard shortcut for quickly generating an output:

• Mac: Option-Command-G
• Windows: Alt-Control-G

You can also find this option in the Tools menu.

We’ve added two new zoom options, too:

• Zoom to Fit
• Zoom 100%

Filter Markers in Tour Map

You could always filter the images in the Tour Browser, but now, you can see the filtering reflected in the tour map, too.

You’ll need to enable this in the settings:

Google Street View Limit Upload Size

We’ve added a setting where you can limit the image size when uploading to Google Street View. This means you don’t have to resize your images before bringing them in to Pano2VR. The current suggested upload size is 12000x6000.

Google Street View Forum

In case you haven’t found it yet, we’ve created a new forum just for the Google Street View panel.

Fixed Issues

• Direct Node Access with custom names works in more cases
• Adding a horizontal or vertical strip to the Transformation output no longer causes a crash
• The warning in the Tour Browser that expressed broken auto place hotspots will no longer bother you

Greetings! Spring has arrived in Vienna and it reminds us that for us, summer is right around the corner. The warmer weather brings with it events - events we’re happy to be attending.

The first event is Google’s annual Street View Summit which takes place in Tokyo, Japan from May 10-11th. We are excited to be presenting here and looking forward to meeting a lot of new faces!

The second event that we’re also happy, as always, to be part of is the IVRPA conference from June 3-6th. This year it’s held on our home turf - the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria.

Vienna2017 - VR Photo and Video Conference

At both events, Thomas will be presenting the new features that will be introduced in Pano2VR version 6.

If you’ll be at any of these events, be sure to find us - we’re looking forward to meeting you!

Did you know…

…that you can save output templates?

You might find that you use the same output format and settings quite frequently. To help save you time and maybe headache trying remember which settings you used in the previous project, you can save output templates:

Set up your output settings (for any output format):

1. Click the Save Template button.
2. Give the Template a name.

When it comes time to use the template:

1. Open the Output panel.
2. Click the Add Output button and hover over Template.
3. Select your template.

Saved Template

Learn more here.

Another week, another update! Again, we’ve added a few more features and fixed a few more things.

Map Labels

We’ve added labels to tour nodes. This makes it easier to see at a glance which pins in the Tour Map belong to which node.

Map Labels

By default the feature is turned off. To turn it on, go to Pano2VR Preferences or Settings→ Advanced→ Show map labels in tour browser and map.

In the video below, Martin shows you how to use this feature in conjunction with using Tags and filtering to link a multi level tour:

Quick Spin

When you’re testing the flow of a tour, you eventually need to turn around and go back the way you came. We made this easier to achieve. When you reach the last tour node (or any node), hit Z to turn around 180º. (On the German keyboard, use Y.)

Copy North

You can now copy North to all tour nodes.

Copy North

This is useful if you have an indoor tour and used a view/direction that was a temporary North. Then, in Pano2VR you can set the actual North and copy this to all nodes just by clicking the copy button.

Default View in Google Street View

The default view that’s been set in Pano2VR will now be reflected in Google Street View.

Remove Linking

Not long ago, we added a nice feature that let you easily remove the linking for all nodes. But what if you wanted to remove the linking from only some nodes? Well, now you can do this.

1. Select the nodes to be de-linked in the Tour Browser.
2. In the Tour Map, choose Remove All Links from the linking menu.

Remove linking

Setting Transitions in the Skin

You can now set transitions from node to node in the skin. If you need more control you can even control the type of transition, speed and time with expert mode.

Change Transition action

Download

Download the update here. Or if you’re already using the beta, and have turned on Include beta versions in Pano2VR’s settings, the update will appear automatically.

Finally, we’d like to wish everyone a wonderful spring holiday season!

IVRPA 2017 – Vienna

Last week, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at this year’s IVRPA conference in Vienna. Thomas was on stage to give a sneak peek into Pano2VR 6.

Version 6 will have a lot of new features, but here are a few of the notable ones:

• Improved gigapixel support
• Custom maps
• Faster loading of large tours
• Improved animation
• Floor Plan Tool

If you purchase a version 5 license in 2017, you will be eligible for a free upgrade to version 6.

Expect a beta to be ready by the end of Q3.

EPSON International Pano Awards

Early-bird entries are now open. Enter here!

We are proud sponsors of the EPSON International Pano Awards which showcases the amazing talent of panorama photographers.

We encourage all our users to submit. The competition is open to both professionals and amateurs and excellent prizes are up for grabs.

2016 VR/360 Submissions

Good luck!!

Today is a good day.

Not just because today marks the beginning of summer or winter depending on your location on this planet, but also because we are releasing another beta of Pano2VR 5.2.

Levels, levels, levels

Google updated their Google Street View API to allow for levels (a way to connect panoramas from a multi-story building).

Therefore, we’ve added this feature to the Google Street View panel.

Here is a quick video that explains the process:

To add levels:

1. Add Tags to the nodes in User Data.

   Or, alternatively, organize the images in folders per level and Pano2VR will auto tag the images.

2. In the Google Street View Panel, double-click in the table to add an entry. Choose the correct tag and enter an appropriate title that is max 3 characters long.

3. Upload the project to Google Street View and your Levels will appear in the corner like so:

Quick open Target Viewing Parameters

We’ve made it easier to quickly edit the next node’s opening target view. Just Command-click or Control-click the hotspot in the Viewer to open the connected node’s Target Viewing Parameters.

Easier viewing of Viewer element types

The List View panel has been changed to include a column for showing the added element’s type. So, now you can see if the patch is blur patch or an image patch. Or if the hotspot links to a tour node or an image.

Download

Download the update here. Or if you’re already using the beta, and have turned on Include beta versions in Pano2VR’s settings, the update will appear automatically.

We’ve recently produced two new tutorials. One helps you understand a little more about how skins work and the other shows you all the tricks to dragging and dropping in Pano2VR.

Understanding Skins

If you’re just starting to learn about the Skin Editor, you might find this tutorial helpful. In it, we open a skin and show you how the elements connect on a basic level. It also shows how to quickly edit one of the built in skins to best fit your project.

Pano2VR’s Drag and Drop Interface

The power of dragging images in to Pano2VR is not only a time saver but also a nice convenience. In this tutorial, you’ll learn all the drag and drop tricks from importing images to connecting elements in the skin.

Documentation

• Understanding Skins
• Dragging and Dropping

Today, we’re delighted to announce that Pano2VR 5.2 is out of beta!

Thank you to everyone for your feedback and helping to make this release jam-packed with goodies.

If you haven’t been following the story of version 5.2, then let us briefly bring you up to date. Otherwise, hit Check for Updates in Pano2VR or download it now.

Google Street View

The hot new feature of 5.2 is the Google Street View panel.

Google Street View Panel

This lets you upload panoramas and tours directly to Google Street View from within Pano2VR. You can also download your panoramas and tours and also browse them from directly within Pano2VR using the Street View Browser.

Google Street View – Workflow Ready

If you have questions or want to join in on the conversation, visit our new forum for the Google Street View export.

Tour Map

The Tour Map has been updated so that it now shows the connections between nodes. We also added labels to the map markers making it easier to identify the nodes. To enable this feature go to Pano2VR Preferences/Settings → Advanced → Show map labels in tour browser and map.

Tour Map

You can now link tour nodes directly within the Tour Map to streamline your workflow.

Patches

Two new patches have been added. One to blur faces, signs and license plates (helpful for when uploading to Google Street View) and the other is to blur the nadir, called Blurred Cover.

Blur Patches

There’s a bonus here if you have Pano2VR Pro: you can now extract patches in the Master Node.

Auto Place Hotspots

In the Hotspot Properties panel, there is a new option called, Auto Place. When a ghost hotspot is activated, the hotspot is automatically positioned in the correct location of the linked panoramas. So, if the GPS or North of any of the linked nodes changes, the location of the hotspot will change accordingly. Available in Pano2VR Pro.

Auto Place

An Abundance of Refinements

Of course 5.2 received a lot of little enhancements, too!

For instance, transitions can now be set within the Skin, the List View has been changed to show types of elements, and a few new keyboard shortcuts have been added.

See the full list here.

New Tutorial

Earlier we mentioned that patches can now be extracted via the Master Node. Martin will show you how this is done plus how to add common information and media across all the nodes of a tour.

Download

Download the latest version. Or simply check for updates in your existing version of Pano2VR.

Resources

There are numerous ways to learn about Pano2VR:

• Documentation (especially the tutorial gallery.)
• YouTube
• Forum
• Pano2VR User Group on Facebook

This is a bugfix release for Pano2VR 5.2. It fixes a stuttering in the HTML5 player and some other smaller issues.

As always, you can download the new version from the Pano2VR download section.

Today, we’d like to share this project from Dieter Lukas of Panobilder.de, that was created for their client, L’adresse 37.

At first glance it appears to be a basic tour. But, as you explore the spaces you discover beauty in simplicity and subtle creativity.

Before reading on, check out the project.

I find the skin design to be clean and inviting. The animated hotspots are just enough to catch your eye and draw you to the the next location.

When you enter the restaurant via the first hotspot, you are presented with fine photography and a wonderfully staged location. And then, as you spin or let the auto rotation take you through, something appears! It wasn’t there before! It’s a menu?! Oh, what kind of magic is this? Before you know it, you’re clicking through a menu and being served decadent looking dishes.

My friends, this is the magic of hotspot templates and 3D distortion!

Awhile back, Hopki showed us how we can use the 3D distortion option of the hotspot template. It’s a way to pin images to the panorama and to program them using just the skin editor (and skin actions).

Dieter took Martin’s example and used it to highlight the restaurant’s dishes. Did you miss this the first time around? Go back and try again. And while you’re there, find the restroom. I’d like to personally thank the creative genius who built a living ceiling in a bathroom. I want one. Wait, how do you water it?

Oh back to the tour. You can also change the language to English. And if you’re hungry now, you can easily reserve a table by clicking the Reserve button in the bottom left corner.

Dieter kindly shared with us some information about the project. Here’s a screenshot of the project:

Pano2VR Project Window

Five skin variables, 1 timer and 8 3D distorted hotspots were implemented. Here are the assets used in the skin:

The images used in the skin.

Perhaps the most useful are the instructions on how to create those magical hotspot images (which we have updated for version 5):

• 3D Distorted Hotspot Images

You might also find the tutorial on Animating Point Hotspots useful:

• Animated Hotspots

Thanks for sharing, Dieter!

Pano2VR 5.2.2 Released

Today, we’ve released an update to Pano2VR with some more bug fixes and changes:

• Image download could get stuck if there was no interaction
• Fix for large Street View accounts with > 10.000 photos
• The Street View Browser now merges tours with the same PlaceID, but no connections
• Improved gyro script to avoid an “upside down” bug on Android

Check for updates in Pano2VR’s Help menu or download the update from here.

German Video Tutorials

In case you haven’t already read/heard, we are excited and proud to share that Thomas Bredenfeld has produced a fantastic set of video tutorials over at LinkedIn Learning (formally video2brain).

He covers everything! After watching these tutorials (over 100 of them), you’ll certainly be a master at Pano2VR.

Did you know …

… that in order to display a Google map, you will need an API key?

If you’ve seen this error in your map, it means you need to grab yourself a key. You can get them from here and you can add them to the Maps skin element’s properties.

Welcome to this edition of Pano2VR in the Wild! Today we’re featuring the work of Boštjan Burger who is a prolific 360 panorama photographer known for his captures of the beautiful country, Slovenia.

Lately, Boštjan has been collecting his work and merging projects together to create very large tours. One of these projects is especially for World War 1 history buffs, with an amazing amount of panoramas (about 1000) taken at significant locations during the war. For instance, I learned about Mount Batognica, which was a strategic mountain battleground between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops.

Another project of Boštjan’s, is his collection of 360 captures of the Kamnik-Savinja Mountain Range on the border of Austria and Slovenia. The project is astounding in so far as the beauty captured and the amount of images captured.

Most panoramas have information about them found in either Slovenian or English. Click the language buttons in the top, left corner.

If you want to view the panoramas without the hotspots, Boštjan provides a different view using a thumbnail slider. In the bottom right of the screen, click the “X”. This will clear the screen, leaving only a slider and a few buttons. An advantage to this view is that you can see which panoramas you’ve visited.

You might have noticed that both projects open with Fly-ins and hotspots indicating the location and distances. We must admit, we helped Boštjan obtain this with a creation of a new skin component, called Distance Field.

The Distance Field component gives you a way to display distances between nodes of a tour.

The component is just a text box with some magic code. All you need to do is add it to a hotspot template and the distance (in either Metric or Imperial units) will be displayed. To download it and to get more information on how to use it, head over to our Component Forum.

Did you know…

…you can share components?

Components were created with the intention to save and share elements of a skin. We share our components with you on our forum.

To share:
1. Right-click a category in the Components Toolbox and choose, Open Category Folder in Finder/Explorer.

2. Navigate to the component you want to share.

Do you have any components you’d like to share to the community? Don’t be shy!

You can learn more about components in our documentation.

The days of 2017 have gone by quickly but we don’t want to forget them as the year closes out.

Market at Karlsplatz Vienna Austria 2017

This year we celebrated Pano2VR’s 10th birthday! That’s right, 10 wonderful years. We thank you all for being part of our community and helping to make Pano2VR what it is today. This is what Pano2VR looked like in 2007:

Pano2VR 2.0 beta 1 - 2007

We were especially happy to meet you earlier this year in Tokyo at the Google Street View Summit and in Vienna at the IVRPA conference. At both of these events, we presented version 6 of Pano2VR with a promise to release it this year. Unfortunately, we still have a bit more tweaking to do. We know…we’re late! But, we’re working on it everyday and hope to have a beta out very soon! We know you’re waiting.

Version 6 will include improved gigapixel support, faster loading of large tours, a more powerful animation editor, custom maps and a floor plan tool:

Pano2VR 6 Floorplan

So, stay tuned for more in the coming weeks! Our promise still stands: for anyone who purchased version 5 in 2017, you will be eligible for a free upgrade to version 6.

We know it’s not version 6, but we didn’t want to leave you empty handed. So, here is a small bug fix release:

Pano2VR 5.2.3
(Click “Show all downloads” to download 5.2.3 or in Pano2VR, go to Help > Check for Updates, if not prompted automatically.)

Season’s Greetings from all of us at Garden Gnome Software!

Today, we’re happy to bring you Pano2VR 6 beta!

We’ve been working on version 6 for awhile now and it’s taken longer than we anticipated, but we wanted to get the beta as close to a stable version as possible.

Version 6 brings:

• Floor plans
• Custom maps
• Updated Tour Map
• Improved Skin Editor
• New Animation Editor
• 360º video playback in the Viewer
• Removal of Flash and QuickTime support

Check out our latest video we made to help to get up to speed with everything:

Also check out how to add and use floor plans in your project:

New documentation is also ready for you. You can read it here, or in Pano2VR, go to the Help menu and choose, Help for the offline manual.

The Beta is available for download here.

If you have a previous version of Pano2VR, log in to your account and check your upgrade options and to receive your Pano2VR 6 license key.

If you if purchased Pano2VR 5 after January 1, 2017 the upgrade is free. This means, if you buy version 5 now, you’ll get version 6 as well.

We’ve got lots of news to share today. We’ll be doing some travelling at the end of May and we hope we’ll get to meet up with some of you. We also have three new tutorials on the Skin Editor. Read on!

IVRPA - Tokyo 2018

This year’s IVRPA conference will be held in the remarkable city of Tokyo, Japan and we will be there!

Join Martin Hopkins for his workshops as he shows you how to work with the latest features of Pano2VR 6. He’ll be going over the Tour Map, how to apply and work with floor plans, working with the Animation Editor, and of course the Skin Editor.

Google Street View Summit 2018

We will also be in attendance at the Street View Summit in San Francisco.

Tutorials — Pano2VR 6 Skin Editor Features

Martin (aka Hopki) has produced a few tutorials showing some of the new features introduced in Pano2VR 6.

These tutorials assume you already have some working knowledge of the Skin Editor. If you’re unfamiliar with the Skin Editor, you can learn the basics here. The Skin Editor does require a small learning curve, but once you learn it, you’ll understand how incredibly powerful it can be.

Using Placeholders

Placeholders got updated. They are more efficient and can now be made for variables. Here, Hopki shows us how to dynamically change a URL and text in a Text Box or Button.

Skin Configurations

It’s now easier to create universal skins so that you can build a single skin that can be modified for different projects without having to open the Skin Editor.

Check out the tutorial to learn how to create such a skin and to apply the different elements of a skin to an HTML5 output.

Action Filters

Action filters are conditions applied to actions. If an action has a filter, then it’ll only get executed if the condition is true. In this tutorial, Hopki shows us a few examples on how to use them.

Learn More

• Pano2VR 6 announcement
• Using Placeholders
• Skins for Configurations
• Using Action Filters