Simplest Deployable VR image software/workflow

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prehabitat
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Location: Victoria, Australia

Hi All,

The issue I'm having is finding a convenient way to package the images from a Gear 360 and sit them on the file server for anyone to view; pan, zoom etc - I'm sure this will not be an issue in n-years time when windows has an inbuild panoramic image viewer, but currently everything seems to rely on web based scripts.
This is mainly an issue from a resource and deployability perspective: I need to delegate this image capture to someone who can only press the red 'take photo' button, then copy-paste them into a folder. Then I provide 80 people with a piece of software & foolproof instructions on how to open, pan and zoom the image.
(all staff specific 3D package literate, so ideally you could control the mouse->pan/yaw direction to avoid it being 'backwards')

I've currently tried opening the image in 360 director then grabbing the stitched image from C:\Users<Username>\Documents\CyberLink\ActionDirector\1.0\360 then opening it in a viewer. still requires a viewer.
I have tried Pano2VR too, but this exports a lot of files..

Ideally you would get a 360 image direct from the gear 360 (landscape image with a double glass-bottle effect) and have a single piece of software about as complex as Windows Photo Viewer which can Pan, Zoom, and maybe screenshot export for areas of interest..


Can anyone help?? :)
Win10/3770/16gb/K600(display)/GTX780(Octane)/GTX590/372.70
Octane 3.x: GH Lands VARQ Rhino5 -Rhino.io- C4D R16 / Revit17
prehabitat
Licensed Customer
Posts: 495
Joined: Fri Aug 16, 2013 10:30 am
Location: Victoria, Australia

p.s. the image captured by the Gear 360 appears to be two h180° x h180° orthographic projections side by side on the one canvas.
ie. There is a black region outside the sphere, unlike fisheye projection which has a h180° x h180° stretched out over a square canvas..

So ideally this magical, super simple software would view those: with Pan, zoom and ideally capture/flatten by region/screen.

EDIT: I'm sure its possible to batch convert the Images: 360 director seems to do the conversion to Equirectangular on import; so I'm not necessarily tied to native orthographic viewing - it would just save a lot of stuffing around with no benefit.
That is unless there is an accuracy/downstream workflow benefit for any one of the projection types over the others?
Win10/3770/16gb/K600(display)/GTX780(Octane)/GTX590/372.70
Octane 3.x: GH Lands VARQ Rhino5 -Rhino.io- C4D R16 / Revit17
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