Tutorial Update - April 2021

Pano2VR Package Viewer

A big shout out to Garden Gnome Software for the release of the Package Viewer app for iOS and Android. I've been using it for presentations and it's a fantastic way to show my work to others and incredibly easy to use.

After an initial play-around with the app, I started to wonder how I could add a custom preview image to the app screen.

In my first attempt, it became obvious that the placement of elements such as type, on the preview image was critical as the option, within the app, to change the Grid size meant that there is a limited area of visible space available after the resizing because the title bar height remains constant while the preview area gets smaller.

The other question raised by wanting to add a custom preview image is how can I add it into the .ggpkg package before uploading the package to the app?

To that end, I've just published a new tutorial Package Viewer - Custom Preview (Mac)

Packages preview showing (left to right) Default preview, Title Safe preview and Custom preview

Note: Windows 10 version coming soon

Packages App - Distributing Tours via Facebook

I posted a link to a test .ggpkg file I’d uploaded to a bucket on S3 and I was curious to see if I could download and publish it directly from the Facebook link. Well, it turned out a bit more circuitous than I first thought,

So I set up a new post on Red 360 Panoramas to try it out and I grabbed some screens while I was playing around. I have both iOS and Android versions.

If you are looking for the Android version you can find it here

In the Wild

It was great to be featured in Garden Gnome Software's "In the Wild" series alongside Boštjan Burger and 360imagery. Pano2VR is a critical component in the development of world class virtual tours and the team are constantly pushing ahead of the curve to bring new features on a regular basis.

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