WWDC2003 Session 724

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Kind: captions Language: en so without further ado I'm going to introduce Jim Anders from heading thank you good morning everyone when I was asked to speak at the conference here my first inclination was to do lay you know what's new from a product point of view in quicktime VR but realizing I was going to have an audience full of developers I wanted to change gears a little bit and talk about what's new and the way of opportunities for development and to give you a sense of what the market is like and because it's a vital market and it's one that's continuing to grow so to start out with what's new with VR well this is one thing that was new I was really glad to see that Apple on the the morning of the introduction of the g5 chose to once again use QuickTime VR to show the inner workings of the new g5 and for those of you might not be familiar with object movies which is this is a quick time of your object movie as you may or may not know quicktime VR supports both object-oriented images as well as panoramic images and usually you can just simply do a simple rotation of an object and this one they're doing some more interesting animation effects you can see the cover coming off and zooming in and out to see the early all the neat details of the of the unit so that's really cool what we're going to be taught what I'm going to be talking about this morning is essentially give you a quick overview of QuickTime vr Kai Dan our company has been involved right from the very beginning of QuickTime you are actually we got started making accessory products for the Apple quick take camera and then shortly after the Apple Creek take camera was introduced apple announced quicktime VR so we've been involved right from the very beginning and I'm kind of give you a sense of a little bit of the history a sense of where are we at currently in the in the technology what the current and potential market is I try to give you some sense of the best I can and what opportunities are that I think are for third-party development and and at the very end after carries talk we'll have a Q&A session so where have we been when quick times vr was introduced he's 78 years ago Apple had a product called the quicktime VR authoring tool suite for those you remember npw it was a npw base you actually typed you know stitch this movie in a command-line interface there was a dongle it was fairly expensive and for those who went and took the the training class at Apple the predominant camera the preferred camera was a 35-millimeter camera with film and we actually shot film they had photo cds returned and that's how you did it and image quality was as you might expect fairly nice with a photo CD but arat as i was mentioning at that same time Apple introduced the quick take camera and we had making credit card anak close-up lenses and wide angle lenses so we thought it would be really cool to be able to develop a tripod head for that Apple camera and at the time a lot of people were saying that 35 millimeters the way to go but you managed to get some really kind of nifty shots and it was clear to us back then that digital is going to be the way these images were going to a shot lets you so that kind of kicked it off for us and in fact for the industry things just really started to take off shortly thereafter Apple did kind of the next generation of tools be quick time they are offering studio which still is available today and and actually there's probably no better stitcher for stealing cylindrical panoramas than that product today there was another startup company back then called Panem a shin they made a product called node stir and widget Iser and today you can see the accessories of those products the descendants of those products in the VR toolbox company product line there's also a company called live pictures and made a product called photo visto and that still is available today under a new company name called IC media it was also another startup company called on the view and they're known today as I pics new digital cameras really started to take off Apple Rev their camera line Kodak came out with digital cameras and that was really the beginning of the emergence of digital cameras things really went crazy at that time tripod heads which are used to actually create back then and still today the panoramic images were close to a thousand dollars and when we got involved we decided to kind of democratize the market and we introduced a tripod head called the Kiwi for a hundred dollars and simple things went nuts schools kids started to use this technology it was just really became a vibrant market in the past few years we've just seen an explosion of applications as i mentioned animation those products are now being sold and continually be updated through VR toolbox there's a product called reels is stitcher that does multirow panoramas where you can create very high-rez panoramas offering studio is still around but really the story of VR has been what the third parties have done with it and for those of you who are developers out there I mean that's your challenge I mean there's there is a lot of things going on a lot of companies out there creating really great products and doing really interesting things with VR both in the object and the panoramic realms so today we have a stable mature environment to which to build applications on that Apple has provided you know apples kind of in an interesting situation they develop the enabling technology and then many times they also develop the the consumer applications and QuickTime Bureau authoring studio hasn't been updated in a long time and a lot of our customers and people who are actually buying products you know they clearly bemoan the fact that it hasn't been updated well the good news for developers is that this has been a fertile ground for third-party development and that's the good news apps isn't kind of in a no-win situation but it's really a good news for the development community quicktime VR as a format is the most popular immersive imaging format on the web and we've cut an we've tried to quantify that by doing fairly exhaustive Google searches and actually canvassing and looking at what formats out there on the web and it's still today it's true that there are no other formats that are more popular out there in the other than quicktime vr that's because they're both objects and panoramas and a lot of the other competing file formats or perhaps strictly limited to panorama and things like that quicktime you are also gives you a very rich playback environment because you have the ability to do all the other kind of neat quicktime things and incorporate that into your movies things like sound and the recent announcements in QuickTime regarding sound is going to be very interesting for for developers as far as surrounding sound and so you know 3d sound or things like that I also think QuickTime vr gives you the best playback experience there are some java viewers out there that display panoramas and objects but generally they're there to provide a pretty poor experience you know the cursor doesn't continue to activate as you move off the window as it does with in the QuickTime environment and its really a know that the the Java players are kind of annoying and of course with OS 10 and quartz extreme since we're dealing with photographic images and graphic intensive content is there's no better platform to develop than on the mac so things are good right now and things are good I can I can say they're good but yeah Jim why don't you tell me how and show me how good they are well there are a number of really good success stories out there that one can look at to see how good things are we have you can't find a automotive website that doesn't use QuickTime VR to show off the interior of a new car or the exterior of a new car motion pictures obviously Apple hasn't had a great deal of success with movie trailers well we're now starting to see that in addition to movie trailers the movie studios are doing vr content of the set and the matrix is an example harry potter and in addition educational industrial applications is just a tremendous use and i'll show you briefly here on the demo machine some other examples of VR content if we can switch over to the demo machine sorry we had to do this keynote doesn't play quicktime VR and there's another development opportunity actually okay this is a interior of a new audi a8 i believe and this is a vr movie that was shot by Tim Petros his company's gyro VR and it's a QuickTime vr cubic so we can look all the way up out through the sunroof and down at the dash we can zoom in the as I said just that every automotive company has has this kind of content on their site and they've done a lot of studies and tests and QuickTime does it for them they're very happy with quicktime they've also found out that if you can want to be able to zoom in to see enough detail on the dash that was really important in all their testing that they did so that you have enough detail so it's like sitting in the in the driver's seat that was a panorama in addition to panoramas of course quicktime VR supports objects so you can do neat things like instead of just a flat rotation well let's show the car off and zoom in and zoom out as we move around and the fact that its interactive the fact that you're in control the end users in control as opposed to just a movie makes all the difference in the world one of the other areas of success has been in as I said motion picture in the media content Tim Petros who did the oddities outie of automotive interiors and stuff it has also been doing a lot of work with Warner Brothers they create models of all their intellectual property like Bugs Bunny and in order to make sure that licensing is upheld and all the people who have licensed Bugs Bunny to make Bugs Bunny keychains and Bugs Bunny dolls in order to make sure that this it's been reproduced faithfully they make models well it's a lot easier to distribute a 3d virtual model than it is a real model to all the licensees so here's an example of a multirow object movie and I can turn around and look at all different sides of the of the object and that's really neat another one Tweety lenten industrial and scientific this is a shot that was done with a pano scan camera canoscan camera is a very high resolution digital scanning panoramic camera and what you're looking at here is the interior of the space shuttle and here's an example where cubic vr1 more recent additions to the file format by Apple really shines I mean if you're out if you're shooting a house or you're shooting on an exterior seen somewhere generally it's not that important to be able to look straight up but when you have something happening on every side as in this interior shot you can see that that's really important actually this curve being here that you see on the interior that is actually a shoot that's used for when the astronauts have to bail out of the shuttle there's a strap that they hook up on that curve rod and then they jump out the door which is that round thing right here yeah and actually see the text and this is a relatively low it is like a medium res file I think this is only two Meg's I have a higher res version that you can actually read every piece of writing really crisp just amazing obviously NASA loves this kind of technology this isn't really industrial or educational but I just liked the panorama this is Las Vegas and it's another example of a cubic image that was shot with stitcher and a chi Dan multirow head just a really stunning image although I suspect the moon was put in afterwards okay we'll go back to the slides now so market wise I'm trying to try to give you an idea of what is really the potential for the market in the eight years at Chi dan has been around we've sold tens of thousands of tripod heads and for a good part of that time I would say for the first five years those have been sold to the early adopters these are the guys that were you know read about quicktime VR found out of a thought it was really cool people like Dennis is going to be giving the talk later on after Terry's in my talk but people that have really kind of blaze the trail and at Qaeda and we kind of look at this kind of pyramid effect where for the first part of our existence we've been kind of selling at that kind of peak of the pyramid be you know the people have been really blazing the trail but as time has been going on we've been coming further down the pyramid into a larger wider user base kids grade school kids create creating object movies of bugs you know they weren't the first people who bought our products certainly the other thing that's really helped us is the digital camera market is just going nuts the the market forecast and I've taken several of them and kind of combine them a little bit here they're all before even the most pessimistic form forecasts are looking at a more than a 10 billion dollar market by 2007 it's huge and film is going to go away and it's just a matter of when and number of actual cameras by then is you know 51 million cameras it's just really incredible what's happening in the digital camera world and since a lot of the immersive imaging and QuickTime of your content is constructed by multiple images the ability to have and capture these multiple images with digital of course is a lot of use of images with film the other dynamic in the industry that's happening is the photographers out there that professional and commercial photographers out there there there they've been struggling and they were looking for new and way different ways of getting their content over and you know wedding photographers you know we bit wedding photographers who are looking at new ways of capturing weddings you know with immersive imaging products photographers you saw the g5 in the very beginning you know in the old days the product photographer would shoot that g5 and they would have a press kit and all these glossy photographs would be in the in that in the press kit now you hardly see that anymore because people are using immersive imaging to actually show their products off and in some ways you know it's Cayenne we think the object market has a probably a much bigger potential than the panoramic market just because there's so many more products and objects and ebay things that people of objects of interest that people want to photograph the other thing that has changed is that the applications have changed significantly from the days of mtw and typing in commands you know there are dozens of easy-to-use click-and-drag applications to create this kind of content and that's really made a big difference they said Apple created this enabling technology and now it's up to third-party developers to really make it happen and I've tried to put my thoughts together as far as what I think are some of the low-hanging fruit as it were for what the development opportunities would be there's a lot of them and I tried just to pick a few of the things that are neat either needed in the marketplace or conditions that exist in the marketplace that really make have made the opportunity come to life and one of the biggest changes has been the availability of bandwidth when we started with panoramic images and object images there was a big push to get objects like less than 200 k because people had dial-up modems you know and you know the 9600 baud connection the other is it's tough to bring in the two or three megabytes object movie well that's obviously not the case any more so for example the automotive companies they have no problem putting a 2 Meg object movie or a very high res detailed panoramic image up on the site and people want that detail they want they want to be able to zoom in and read the gauges on the dash they want to be able to see the texture of the floss or the details or the inside of the new g5 object movies originally object movies were just flat spinning objects that would move you know on one row flat spinning objects we multirow object movies like the Bugs Bunny and the Tweety that I showed where you can move it in all directions long time that I wasn't too that wasn't done because the file sizes were every new row that you added to the image would essentially double the double the size of the image or triple the size of the image for each additional row multi-row object movies are coming back into vogue people micholi tried to use them and they were too big and then they throttled back to single row we're seeing more and more multireal object ribs being sold more and more of that kind of content being distributed on the web so undergoing a real revival so there's a real opportunity for content providers to be able to provide this kind of multirow object movies stereo i know dennis is going to be showing some stereo example later on but stereo is something that's really never taken off and become commonplace it's a shame because you can get some amazing imagery with some stereo stereo effects either with panoramas as Dennis will be showing or with objects and in the case of object movies you get stereo for free a quick time of your object movie is essentially an array of matrix of images taking around and up and down and in order to get the stereo effect all you have to do is display any given image in that matrix and the adjacent image which is taken at a slightly different perspective rotated and if you display both of those images either with shutter glasses or with the anaglyph red blue type glasses you get the stereo effect and it's quite amazing so it's free it's all it's already there all it needs to be done if someone has to do and packaged and put together some meat to meat tools to easily create them and display them staying with panoramic we had made a Cayenne had made a stereo imaging tripod head where you could take two shots at once and people didn't really do all that well in the marketplace but I think with the appropriate playback stuff there'd be some really nice revival for that real estate you know real estate virtual tours are one example of VR but to be able to see this house that you're looking to buy in stereo could be really quite compelling cubix quicktime VOR cubics several years ago Apple added that capability so that you could look up and down and although all the way around and there's a lot of opportunities to make that image process of gathering those images are easy and convenient one of the products that cut an that we've had a great deal of success with is our one shot product where in one shot you can capture a full 360-degree panorama it does not yet handle the full view cubics but we're working on and there's some ideas that we have and there's a lesson learned there is that if you can make the capture part of it easy it makes the whole process easier along the way and there's a whole range of new and innovative optical techniques and things like that that would just stimulate that whole process so there's some good opportunities there true 3d a QuickTime VR whether it's objects or panoramas is essentially flat images projected in a new way but you can take those flat images and actually do some interesting things with them for example if we were to shoot several panoramas in this room you can take the similar points analyzed at different locations and construct 3d models true 3d models that you then navigate and move around same with objects you could capture an object movie like bugs or Tweety and instead of just being essentially a digital flip book of images simulating 3d you could actually take that data the photographic data and create a 3d model and then use those photographs to texture map it there's another example of things that you can that can be done and we certainly have the computing power to pull that off today scripting scripting and authoring applescript studio in the latest mac Tech was sort of Tim Monroe did a great little article and how easy and cool apple scripts to do would be to use and there's really no convenient easy ways and tools out there to do that but it certainly could be done there are live stage pro and another application called revolution they have support for QuickTime VR and you can generate some compelling content with those tools and that's more on the content creation side ninjas for the software development side one of the areas that hasn't been explored all that much is high dynamic range imaging you're not familiar with this this is a technique where you take multiple exposures of theme at different photographic exposures and then intelligently combine them to create a very dramatic image which if I were to take a panorama here i have a huge dynamic range of at the bright lights and I've got the darkroom but if I took a series of photographs at all the possible different exposure ranges I would see you guys clearly in the audience the bright lights and up here would being clear and then you combine that and it just creates amazing images there's some examples of that out there HDR shop and photomatix or two examples of some software that do that on conventional images we could certainly do it on objects in town of rama's as well and it could be some possibilities with the pics like codec to be able to pull that off as well codex is another really ripe example for innovation it's really not clear today what codecs are optimized for VR and it's just kind of a general confusion out there about codecs and what could I could really work well and properly in the VR environment so there's some ripe areas there so the most part objects are created by putting an object on a turntable and spinning it like a car or something like that or something bugs & Tweety for example but there's some objects that you just can't put on a on a on a rotating turntable like a statue in a park for example you just it's there and you you have to walk around the object in order to capture it there are today no really easy-to-use tools that allow you to walk around a house or a battleship or a statue in the park that allow you to create an object would be easily and that's a if you're looking for to get in the software business and create a killer app and is there's a great example just be building to animate objects as well as you saw with the the g5 example how the door opened and and the parts flew apart there's no good tools to be able to do that well either it's sold kind of hand pane painstakingly done by hand and pulled out and photoshopped and things like that some other examples if we move back over to the demo machine objects I mentioned briefly ebay if anyone I'm sure everyone has seen eBay or blood off ebay but today you take multiple pictures of your object to make sure that you know the person buying it can see that there's nothing you know broken on it or going on with it but why not use object movies we were tight and we're developing a new piece of object software to make object capture really easy it wasn't ready for be shown here but that's one area where we're going to try to go after is making it accessible for the common ebay user to create this kind of content and to put this up on their ebay page as opposed to five or six images that show the show the object another example really makes a difference when you have that ability to animate it and do things now in this case it's a it's an object movies but we're not spinning the object around we're just kind of like the g5 example we're just articulating the object to show how it works that's another common way of showing this kind of technology there's several weeks ago I came across a technical paper where they were using a small little sprites that would travel over the surface of a 3d object in order to show how how the object look to better convey how the object look this happens to be a tooth and they're actually as they're moving it along their varying the size of the little sprites that move across the surface of the object but for mathematical visualization a mathematic of these kind of complex 3d mathematically described surfaces there's a whole kind of open the possibilities there for using QuickTime VR to describe these kind of complex surfaces here again with OpenGL and and the kind of connection between 3d and quicktime gr there's a another great opportunity so that concludes my part of the talk next up will be Terry brownie and he'll kind of get in more of the specifics about some of the new products and things that are available out there today and in the VR space and i guess some final closing its assuming most of your developers if you're interested in wanting to learn more about some of the possibilities of developing VR applications just see me after the after the session I'll be glad to chat with you and and tell you tell you more thank you [Applause] thank you Jim okay thanks this is a pretty decent turnout I appreciate everybody coming in this afternoon or this morning rather I should know this morning because I'm not a morning person staying with a friend and Nob Hill and about four in the morning all the sudden they're doing some kind of construction on the cable lines on the fifth street so forgive me if I'm not going to awake bully so I'm going to do today is actually show you as Jim mentioned both some hardware and some software kind of what's new and certainly there's a there's a fair amount of development going on which is very encouraging and some of the stuff here today is brand-new and actually some of its so new that it's not even here yet so how many of you first of all went to the Michael shaft interactive quicktime presentation ish relay a few of you okay good well what I'm going to do then is just kind of show a brief outline of stuff i'm going to show and then just jump right into it because i do have quite a few things to kind of get through here ok software i'll be hopefully looking at the live stage pro for dot1x after third this morning vr works 2.5 which is in beta zoom of fire vr version 2 which is recently announced and released and photo warp 201 and just quickly that is I put some prices up for use well live stage this release more point 0 was kind of a revamping of the whole interface of the software and then for dot one they call it the VR release the folks that totally hip we're really you know encouraging trying to get input from the VR community they recognize the potential there and so you'll be surprised those of you haven't seen yet there's just tons of quick cambiar functionality now built into live stage and done so in a way that makes it quite easy for anyone to use even if you don't know how to do any kind of Q scripting so look at that like I said VR works 2.5 is in beta they're showing it downstairs as well in the exhibit booth so I recommend you go down there but I'll also get into it just briefly appear and that's a QuickTime VR that's a complete offering package Jim mention quicktime VR authoring studio from Apple which you know was recently or was originally rather released back in like nineteen ninety seven or so was kind of at the time the only complete authoring package via our toolbox came along and they released vr works which is have similar capability and now i'm pleased to say they're revving that the pro is can and adding some features and functions as well and then zoom a fire for those who haven't seen as a nice way to do very high resolution image streaming and addition initially they started with just images but they've incorporated VR capability and then photo warp is actually software which is bundled with an optic that tied an cells it's a one-shot optic and i'll be showing actually a similar product from another company that was just released today so hardware actually that's the optic graduate firing through the company's 0 to 360 and they have a panoramic optic out someone shot solution manfrotto bogen has a new cubic flash spherical head that is just come out fact it was just shipped from Italy to me yesterday and and then that's roundshot VR drive unfortunately is not here yet and something tells me it's probably going to arrive this afternoon so what I would like to do probably is maybe it's a quick time feedback session i'll kind of be in the corner afterwards so that if it does actually arrive from Switzerland and anybody's interested in seeing it I'll have it there you can just come over and I'll show it to you but it's just an automatic rotating platform like bikes and around so I have done and then hopefully if there's time Dennis diva is going to show at a customized panel head that he had built for him specifically for a project he doing in some Sonia so let's jump over here I know right and this is well I'll leave this all up here to afterwards so you guys come up and actually get your hands on it and see what it's all about but this is the new unit frontman Fratto it ships like this so it's nice kind of a compact and folds up and when you go to use it you unscrew this knob here and some of the feedback that I and got heightened was awful giving them if they need to put a little retainer clip on this so you don't leave this important piece but then this is actually just going to fold up like that and then this gets returned back in this position there and then kind of the second part of the unit is this rotator base here and what this is it's an index base that you can use with the head basically allowing you then to have these click stop that are adjustable you pull up this tab and you have essentially from five degree increments to 90 degrees so anywhere from say four shots six shots 8 10 12 15 18 24 36 or seventy two shots that's a nice solid piece you know it definitely clicks and stops at each increment so you can welcome to come up and look at that afterwards just show you them quickly and this is called the 303 sth how many of you have attempted to shoot a multi row panorama before a few of you okay so as you know it's not it's not quite easy just yet but with products like this and also Chi down offers the multi-role head as well it's starting to get a lot better actually put this down here where I can see it excuse me one second no I love this ok well if I can't get this ulong here I think I have the wrong plate on here the next thing about this head actually I don't need the camel to show it to you but for basically what it allows you to do is you need to set the nodal point this way so basically it moves it's going to move the camera and three different axing so he put the camera on here and you can align them they don't know no point in this direction and then likewise for shooting another different tilt ranges and then in this case yeah you're going to be able to move in this direction too okay so I'll get that camera up there maybe we can even shoot a pen around with the end with dinner so that gives you kind of a sense of how that works okay let's jump in then jump ahead to software and I'll get back to the other hardware as well let's start resume a fire okay Zuma fire basically you don't need any server software so you know it all happens on the client side and the actual application is either a droplet that you use which i'm going to use today or it also because it's available as a photoshop plugin but in this case I have a bunch of images it's just actually kind of a subset of images I shot of a sculpture uncompressed these are all like 9 mag images I think they're from the coolpix 9 95 or something so you know you wouldn't want to necessarily do a big object movie with 9 mag images you know up 36 images whatever because it would just be huge I'm just going to grab all those and X and then just drop it on the droplet open up for me and then you'll see here the hubby's cab image object animation slideshow panorama it knew that I had dragged more than one image so it's assumed that I want to do an object which is the case so then you're just going to choose where the destination is go there okay okay then you can choose the you know the display width and height the background color the zoom compression you can add copyright information set the initial view and then you can tell it which kind of files you want to generate basically what they recommend is kind of doing like an auto detect and checking all these and that's definitely going to be a fail safe thing to do because it'll generate every file that you need and then you just put them up on the server and then the software smart enough to know whether or not the the client has either de zoom applied plug in a quicktime plugin or it's going to use activex or java there's all kinds of different ways that can do it it's it's pretty it's pretty nice actually and it is a quicktime component let me just emphasize that so you can just generate to QuickTime movie and then as far as part of the third party download component system we're going to do that you can watch it do its thing and basically what it's doing is it's picking each of those images and it's piling them up and there's some technical name for it's like smart hair metal preferred image serving or something like that but it's going to take those images and just pretty much died some in the tiles men upon playback it's only going to serve that you know the specific area that you need to see it anytime so the next thing about it's in is you're not having to download a big movie because maybe someones only going to look at one view or when they go to zoom in you don't need to zoom in all the other views that aren't in being seen at that time so it's done okay so look at that open that in quicktime player okay so there's my movie and so you can see then it's showing me kind of the lower res version now and then as I turn it it's going to look like it's getting blurry because it's pulling in those new tiles now so it's only going to refresh once you get to the new the image data that's not there but then the great thing of course is as you zoom in it's just going to serve that image data that you need and you can get some really nice detail this way and so let me go back and look at that file that movies to reference which only 8k okay this PFF file right here that's the image data basically and that's only 1.6 meg so it took each of those seven images that were eight Meg's apiece on compressed and the image data is now been compressed only 1.6 Meg's so this file sits on the server and this little movie just calls the data as it's needed so that is Zuma fire highly recommended ok so next then we're going to look at the zero to 360 optic so this is a one-shot object as i mentioned available from 0 to 360 dot-com and there's a few of these on the market now but as you'll see it just screws onto a digital camera like that and then it captures 350 degrees in one shot so the nice thing about this is besides not having to do any stitching as you can freeze motion you know you can people walking in the room or whatever you can capture motions because that you know assuming that the light is allows you to you can shoot at a high enough of sugar speed to catch motion it's not the there are some disadvantages and advantages that the disadvantage is being that you know all of that data 360 degrees is going to be captured on one frame so the resolution is going to be nearly that of shooting multiple images and stitching them together so this is more kind of a web friendly low resolution way to get a very fast way on my tattoo you know if it gets panorama but if you're looking to do you know nice high quality panorama that you can print or something then you want to do more traditional route of stitching people you guys could come to look at this as well afterwards so what we'll do then is look at an image that was taken with this now they're their software them that they have they have apparently an application that don't windows only right now but they do have a photoshop action for OS 10 that's kind of them so we'll pick this is the image here open it in Photoshop okay so there's the image to go to my action here called the zero to 60 unwrapped ER I'm just going to hit play and it's going to throw up these messages for me please crops you just mere and then press play again when you're finished okay i'm going to choose a crop tool and almost kind of you know quickly do this here about like that just that's a little bit okay let me say crop ok and I'm going to hit play again like it told me to do that's going to say you know this step you can change the image the canvas side basically if you wanted to resize it or you can just continue so we're going to continue when I do that to the size you can automatically pull up the polar coordinate filter to do the remapping okay image size okay and then now it's going to say now crop just to the image and then press play again let me crop roughly there and hit play again and you're done and just level sharpness or whatever you can just brighten this up a bit so you can see it ok so then from there you just save it and then open it in any other applications you actually export the VR they don't export the VR from the photoshop action we do is we put it here and warped just keep them excellent for now okay that's saved there so actually what we're going to do is we're going to kind of cheat we're going to look at that now and the other application that we're going to talk about today which is the artworks okay how many of you use VR works in the past either version 1 or version 2 okay a few of you it's a really nice application this is kind of a tabbed set up a pyridyl and allows you to stitch multiple images allows you to bring in existing panorama is like the one we just did which is what I'm going to do it does hotspots multi-node scenes and such so basically what they're doing now is they have read this for oh it's 10 this is a beta release and so there's still they still have some things they'd like to do some of which I mean they're going to redo the buttons and icons to be all you know 3d and conform to the Aqua although the modal dialogues are going to be sheet windows but one of the things that summon on programs point of view is they're going to try to make this this pain a little bit smarter which is the setup in other words you should be able to just drag your images on there and it's going to be kind of an auto configuration right now you have to you know determine the what kind of image it is how many of them there are you know what size they are that kind of thing but hopefully when this is actually released you'll just be able to drag your images in there and the software will figure all that out for you so you can kind of skipped that step what I'm going to do then actually just import a single panorama okay and next let's just drag and drop it the one that we just did from that other app which we call well thank you I'm just going to drag that there can ask me if I want to rotate it I happen to know that you know I don't need to rotate that I'm sorry oriented correctly and then it's going to bring it in fourth so you can kind of look in there the next thing is they've always from the beginning actually although it's very seldom used by a lot of people but you can actually have access to filters all the QuickTime filters special effects you know if you wanted to add if you want equal in to use QuickTime to do blurring sharpening that kind of stuff you can do that all from within here they have a built-in image editor so you can click here bring it up and do some kind of basic editing but also what's going to be new in this version is the offer the option to you know say I'd rather use Photoshop basically and then when you click that button it's going to load the image into Photoshop for you we'll jump with him the hot spot and you basically choose a tool outline were you when your hot spot to be tell it what kind of hot spot it is you know a link or URL whatever you want to be it's called a swinging and then another nice thing that they've added in this feature in this version is the ability to set all this information and then basically choose a preset so that you can always just go back in just drop down and choose a kind of a template for all of you the other ones so we're just going to look at this quickly oh and you can do within the software now you can do fast start and web fast track previews so if somebody same you know you usually get to grid but you can also add so you can bring in a low resolution preview for the ER okay so those are they are there you can come up here let me make it a little bit bigger pan around there was our hotspot see the cursor change basically an add annotations and stuff like you know fit be set the initial view if you want open up on that flower you know you can go over here and set that to be the initial view and then export so what I'm going to do export that here garden movie oh and the other nice thing so this is a project file right now I'm going to close this project and all rap i forgot to say the right well so the what they've done now is i can go back in vr works and they have a sniff you little thing called recomposed project for moving so those of you who have been using VR you'll see kind of the benefit to this now I can take the movie that was just generated open it and it's going to recreate the project so now I can go back in there and I can re-edit it there's my hostage you know it's pulled the source basically back out with the hot spots and tack and everything now I don't have to worry about saving all those project files anymore you can just recompose them from the finalized movie that's a very powerful feature so we don't need that ok so the photo warp so photo warp then is software aspect to the camera from I see 360 in KY dan called the I 360 PR and it's a similar unit to this like I say there's about four or five companies doing similar things hi dan is here downstairs if you want to go down and take a look at your optic in their software but this is a very nice software you know that a lot of time and soft and put in to doing it so first of all I could just have an image actually a fairly old image coming from one of their optics so I can just drag in there ah more time Oh doesn't like aliases okay yeah it should be here there it is yeah okay I'll tell Michael in devon ke kisses so it recognizes then that if this is one of its own images a 360 1 BR image you can also import a cylindrical or spherical image then you can under format you have picked NVR it will also spit out java in this version right and yeah PT viewer you know there's several other formats that they'll spit out as well so now here we again choose the compression choose a view you know tell it what size again you can also generate the fast start preview here or you can choose a pull in a different image there okay so we've been there you can set a target size if you thought well I'd like to have to keep the move around you know if you hit RK or whatever and let's just do this click on the warp and then it's going to unwrap that movie fourth and then it's from there down there for so we can see it so then the other mexico de i want to show you is you can also then go back and change this to a cylindrical image i'm not sure if i can just drag this in or not we'll find out italy place it on a flyer if i bleep down first but the other image i shot to this one yeah so then this is actually the cylindrical image shot with this other lens after i had gone through the photoshop action so you can our ahead go ahead and import a cylindrical image as well and again go through all those steps but i highly recommend you go down to the chi damn booth because there's actually a lot of nice features there's some batch processing capabilities and such that you know you should really try to take a look at down there if you are interested right now let's jump in the live stage how many of you are life they throwing users currently i'll give you okay okay well I States Pro is the quicktime authoring application very very very powerful and it's come a long way it was first done and they're trying to make it even you know despite the pro title they're trying to also now make it a little bit easier for people that don't want to dive in and have to learn kind of a scripting language and syntax and all that stuff so it still is a very powerful program that you know if you if you want to get into that side of things you certainly can but as I mentioned with its for dot one release they really gone out of their way to target to VR crowd specifically and to make it much easier because they have found like other as have other software developers for VR that you know a lot of the VR producers are photographers and sure they can use a mac and such but they're not they are not coming from the same background probably with a lot of people that this particular conference are so they wanted to kind of make it as easy as possible so i'm going to do is that's going to take one of those movies here's my library i'm going to drag it over here on the stage pops it up and it's going to add a VR trap for me down here yeah so the new one of the new features in four then with the addition of these things called fast track so in the old days that I'd have to do is I'd have to add a sprite track have to add a sprite and then you know on the handlers tell us you know onmousedown do this do that and I have to know all that syntax but now I can move or all I need to be really second to say i want to add some controls so it's going to pop this be our editor okay and it's going to add that track for me automatically right here the next thing about it is that comes with default media which is can be changed very easily I think they give you some other options here to basically all you need to do is from your library click and drag and bring it over and then it's going to replace it on the fly like that so let's go back to the VRE there so here's the node we're in now okay this is all live here and you can change speed etc center basically but that's all there is to having to do that so I'm going to close that though just for a second and just preview this just so you can see how simple this is so there's my movie you can see and I can use it the traditional way or I can go down here and use these buttons this way and that is that image that I dragged in just kind of without looking what it was zooming in here ok so I mean that's that's a huge thing for anybody that's ever seen that would have taken 40 minutes to do prior to the version 4 because you have to do it all by hand and do all the coding so now you can say well you know what I also want to maybe do a maybe a compass and a compass track depending on the application compasses are kind of popular you know kind of giving you an orientation as to where you're looking especially if you're into jumping around notes so again they gives you default media which you can use or not and in fact you can choose a linear style like that and have a critical across like a dial or a radio one based either on pan angle or tilt angles to leave in the back ok and say we want to look there I'm going to set that as north ok so now that's going to be north so that the arrows pointing up at that particular view close that now I can simply go over here drag that around why we're building this you know I might have a nice background image what I'm going to do is just use their basic background but i'll go ahead and change it to black okay and then give you that okay so now if you can tell from back there but here's my indicator and as I'm panning its panning as well and as I face that fountain it's giving me the direction of north so again that would that would have taken considerable significant amount of time to do prior to this version and then they also do they do you can do directional sounds that way you can add sounds let's go ahead though and look at the VR editor again for a second even though they don't do any stitching they have given us now the capability to do hot spots within the application so that is the hot spot that was created previously i can go in here and see it and i can alter it you know like there it is there to grab this tool I can move it around put I where I want go back change the settings associated to it I can use custom cursors I can change the way it links and I can tell it where it's linking to you can do all that kind of stuff so it's very powerful and then if you if you do want to get into the key script type of thing this is kind of the traditional way to do it where the handlers are here if you know didn't we use the fast track and then a very another very cool feature that they added then we change this back a little bit back to my local library I'm going to take my other movie I'm just going to simply go down here i'm going to say app end and voila now i have a multi-node movie and not only that but the software we're smart enough to go ahead and automatically extend those two tracks that it created for me okay so now i have two nodes and the controller and the compass are going to go ahead and be there for both nodes i can go back to this node hotspot this is node 1 there's no to link to node no telling where it's going to go all that kind of stuff so and i can add i can create additional hot spots here if I wanted choose the color again just go in there and now so using the one that was in there before and I could create my own so very very powerful very very easy and they're also having a pretty unbelievable sale price for the show so you might want to try to hook up with those guys if you can well so there to show let's see we did the Zuma Phi and their 360 optics we did VR work and again vr works and photo warp they're both downstairs so I didn't spend a lot of time going to then both of them have a lot more features and functionality than what I've shown but since they're downstairs I'd recommend you go down there live stage pro we did looked at the manfrotto head Oh Dennis then is still here yes so what we'll do is pin now a little after ten Dennis will take a few minutes show us a custom head that he had made and then we'll do some Q&A thank you [Applause] so this is a be our heads that we had its custom fabricate for our project i'm working at the National Air and Space Museum partisan Smithsonian to file a case study I need a mic oh okay sorry is this good hey this week she's waving to me it must be okay right thumbs up I got thumbs up now wonderful so this is a custom fabricated head we have a lot is on our project building and shooting all these aircraft we have 200 aircraft to shoot and we're using Jim's standard spherical head but we had some issues with going into cockpit subjects it takes 15 minutes to raise and lower the canopy so picture you had to raise and lower the campy for every shot you need to do 36 so we'd be there a few days so we had a gentleman in the audience dr. Lewis nap and he came up with this motorized head and unfortunately Terry still trying to figure out how to work with his other stuff I got it but basically it was just mount on a tripod we mount it inside the aircraft we hit start close the canopy and then the head will automatically start to rotate and put the camera in the correct position does the full 36 shots or wherever its program for bars off the camera so then we can open up the canopy then pull our equipment out and move on to another aircraft so lots of different things that we've had to do we'll talk about that in my presentation but Terry wine me to show another salut Shin out there don't know how much it would cost on the market you'd have to talk to Luis I think he's into taking your firstborn so or leaves pio the right arm you know whichever is the trigger finger so that's time for my presentation well ok carrying great so um yeah so we'll do some Q a few months to come back up a half Flyers actually for the manfrotto i forgot that what they do actually is they supply you with two sets of brackets so i had the wrong bracket on there which is nice because they'll do larger brackets for bigger SLR cameras like this or they'll supply smaller brackets if you're going to be using you know like a consumer prosumer type digital camera you