Creating virtual 360° panorama for iPad

Then I replaced the pictures with my cube faces of the panorama which I had allready, of course I had to resize it. After that renamed the file into pano.wdgt, droped it into widget from iBooks Author .

With this little trick I could safe the money for the Kolor panotour pro program.

The only proble I have I can't resize the picture, there the output is set to 960 x 540 px I woild like a full screen 1024 x 768 px

Is there any hint or also another easy way to do this?

Are you saying your widget works, but the image sizes are wrong? Or are you saying the widget does not work at all? - Fabe

No, I've not tried a panaroma in IBooks Author.

I did download and view the original "Cattle" panorama. Large and fine.

I have to speculate your original images are too small to begin with if the final result is small.

- Fabe

At the moment I am waiting for my plane in CGN and my iPad is in the suitcase....

We live in an amazing world. Have a good trip. - Fabe

Thats fabulous~!

I was had a little problem with panorama widget works, before I read this post.

brgds, C J.

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The recently released iAd Producer 4.0 has support for creating iBooks Author HTML5 widgets, and has a template for a panorama widget, as well as an object for creating 360 degree product views. I watched an Apple engineer at an iBooks Author workshop create a panorama from scratch, complete with interactive hot spots, and he made it look super simple!

Hi Patixa, I Just made some panorama images using iPad and 360panorama app. Can you please tell me how to prepare the images for either panorama object or the 360View object in iAD? I have one image. Do I need to split it to 6 to be able to cover the sides of the cube? Maybe you could recall from the workshop, please? Thank you.

For the panorama object, the image was sliced into 6 parts, each stored at iPad (1024x768) and iPad Retina (2048x1536) image sizes, using the "@2x" notation for the Retina images. The engineer dragged the images onto the panorama object, changed some of the panorama object's parameters until it filled the iPad screen, and he had a working panorama in a matter of minutes. I suspect, however, that the majority of the work was carving up the images before the demo. 😉

The 360 view is really a fancy image rondel or zoetrope. You drop in a bunch of images that show an object slightly rotated from its predecessor to give the illusion of a 3D model. You can see a functional example at the Safari Dev Center:

https://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/threesixty.php

NASA has also done something similar with their rover pics.

I hope that helps!