CleVR ยป Panoramic photography and image stitching blog » Ajax http://www.clevr.com/blog Panoramic photography, virtual tours and stitching software Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:24:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 We’re so two-point-oh: updated Stitcher. Tagging added to panoramas. http://www.clevr.com/blog/2007/were-so-two-point-oh-updated-stitcher-tagging-added-to-panoramas/ http://www.clevr.com/blog/2007/were-so-two-point-oh-updated-stitcher-tagging-added-to-panoramas/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:48:25 +0000 matt http://www.clevr.com/blog/2007/were-so-two-point-oh-updated-stitcher-tagging-added-to-panoramas/ Yup, another update to CleVR. Firstly, the AIR CleVR Stitcher has been updated again. We’ve also made it the primary Stitcher now. The Java version is still available, but we recommend everyone move to the AIR one now, as it’s a lot better. This version runs on Beta 2 of AIR, just released by Adobe. If you launch it from the stitcher page and you’ve previously run the AIR Stitcher it will update your version of AIR automatically. The Stitcher has few updates from the last version, probably the most significant of which is a greatly improved uploading system. It’s a lot quicker.

Secondly, updates to CleVR.com. Following on from commenting, added at the weekend, we now have tagging. So Web 2.0! You can add tags to your panoramas, such as place names and so forth. Give it a go: you’ve find the button for it on your panorama pages if you’re logged-in.

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However, it also needs to be tightly-integrated with the server, so that it can handle the uploading, authentication and similar. It also needs to be cross-platform, as we don;t have the resources to develop separate apps for Mac, Windows (and possibly Linux). The current system is pretty good – we use Java Webstart which allows us to launch from the browser, while giving us the access we need to the filesystem and native libraries. However, I’ve never been totally happy with it, and am always looking for a better solution. Luckily, there seem to be some on the way.

The other day, I ran across Adobe Apollo, which looks pretty damn cool. This is still in development, but will allow Flash, Javascript and HTML apps to be deployed on the desktop. That sounds a lot like CleVR to me. From first appearances, it seems to be a much more elegant system than Webstart (and the Java platform in general). The HTML renderer is based on WebKit, which of course makes it even cooler.

This stuff seems to be becoming all the rage at the moment – Pulse Laser has a few more examples. WebKit on Rails looks fun, though we don’t use Ruby here so it’s not massively relevant to us.

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