Download or read book The QuickTime VR Book written by Susan A. Kitchens and published by Addison Wesley. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to the groundbreaking interactive technology that's brought virtual reality to the massesQuickTime Virtual Reality, more commonly known as QuickTime VR, is a cross-platform technology developed by Apple. QuickTime allows viewers to explore a site in 3D, rotate objects, zoom in or out of a scene, or look around 360 degrees, all while at their desktop. The QuickTime VR Book provides an introduction to the process of creating QuickTime VR movies and larger QTVR-based projects.The concise information in The QuickTime VR Book shows readers how to add QuickTime VR content to their Web site or CD-ROM. It covers the basics of virtual-reality technology and such topics as planning your movie, viewing and creating panoramas and object movies, understanding and setting up hot spots, and linking large projects together. This book will serve as an indispensable resource for Web and multimedia producers (including game developers), photographers, and 3D artists.-- FirstQuickTime VR book on the market!-- A technology that cyberstores are increasingly using to make sales by displaying merchandise in virtual storefronts-- An affordable introductory book, appealing to higher-end audiences who want to add this technique to their repertoire of skills-- A book for those who produce Web sites and CDs, as well as those who create their content
Download or read book Virtual Reality Photography written by Scott Highton and published by Virtual Reality Photography. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference book on the art and techniques of virtual reality photography by one of the pioneers in the field, Scott Highton.The book includes sections on Photography Basics, Panoramic VR Imaging, Object VR Imaging, and Business Practices.Intended audience includes both professional and amateur photographers, as well as multimedia authors and designers.
Download or read book The VR Book written by Jason Jerald and published by Morgan & Claypool. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a strong foundation of human-centric virtual reality design for anyone and everyone involved in creating VR experiences. Without a clear understanding of the human side of virtual reality (VR), the experience will always fail. The VR Book bridges this gap by focusing on human-centered design. Creating compelling VR applications is an incredibly complex challenge. When done well, these experiences can be brilliant and pleasurable, but when done badly, they can result in frustration and sickness. Whereas limitations of technology can cause bad VR execution, problems are oftentimes caused by a lack of understanding human perception, interaction, design principles, and real users. This book focuses on the human elements of VR, such as how users perceive and intuitively interact with various forms of reality, causes of VR sickness, creating useful and pleasing content, and how to design and iterate upon effective VR applications. This book is not just for VR designers, it is for managers, programmers, artists, psychologists, engineers, students, educators, and user experience professionals. It is for the entire VR team, as everyone contributing should understand at least the basics of the many aspects of VR design. The industry is rapidly evolving, and The VR Book stresses the importance of building prototypes, gathering feedback, and using adjustable processes to efficiently iterate towards success. It contains extensive details on the most important aspects of VR, more than 600 applicable guidelines, and over 300 additional references.
Download or read book Interactive Panoramas written by Corinna Jacobs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-08-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the range of techniques for the production of digital interactive panoramas and object movies Details of all the necessary steps involved in panoramic photography Professional tips and tricks from a professional photographer and web designer
Download or read book QuickTime for Filmmakers written by Richard Ferncase and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the decades, distribution has remained the most elusive aspect of filmmaking. The Web provides filmmakers with a new option for distribution, exhibition, and broadcast. While other media streaming technologies are available, QuickTime remains the most popular option for its versatility, excellent quality, and ease of use. QuickTime for Filmmakers shows filmmakers and videographers how to utilize this industry standard tool and offers advice on how best to shoot a film for Internet delivery. Other topics include: Editing and converting video, adding and editing soundtracks and using text in QT movies, compressing media, and preparing movies for http and RTSP streaming or a combination of both. A chapter on virtual reality explores QuickTime's unique feature for creating 360 panoramas, immersive cubic VR, object movies and VR scenes. A companion CD-ROM demonstrates topics covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery.
Download or read book Discovering QuickTime written by George Towner and published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for programmers, multimedia designers, and everyone interested in the latest media technology, this book gives you a step-by-step introduction to QuickTime programming, from movies and animation to streaming video on the Internet. The CD-ROM in the back provides working applications, sample code, and the essential programming resources you need to get started. QuickTime sets the standard for worldwide distribution of multimedia content. An increasing number of Windows and Macintosh application developers use its extensive toolkit to bring time and action to their programs. If you're going to compete in today's multimedia world, you need to understand QuickTime. What can QuickTime do for you? QuickTime is a complete system for working with all aspects of digital media. With QuickTime, you can: * Build, play, and edit movies on both Windows and Macintosh computers. * Fill your movies with a wide range of video, audio, graphic, and animation data, using most popular formats and compression standards. * Create Windows and Macintosh movie files that you can stream over the Internet or deliver on CD-ROM. * Make animated graphics with interactive capabilities. * Compose and play synthetic sounds and music, using QuickTime's built-in MIDI synthesizer. * Create virtual reality environments and 3D interactive models. This book shows you how to harness the power of QuickTime. It doesn't take weeks of work to achieve sophisticated multimedia effects; fewer than a dozen lines of Java or C can bring the power of QuickTime into your application. * * Includes a companion CD-ROM packed with QuickTime support materials, reference materials, and examples
Download or read book QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two written by Tim Monroe and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Buried inside QuickTime are a host of powerful tools for creating, delivering, and playing digital media. The official QuickTime documentation explains 'what' each API function does. But knowing what each function does isn't enough to allow a developer to take full advantage of QuickTime. QuickTime Toolkit fills in the gap—providing plenty of practical examples of 'how' to use QuickTime to perform all kinds of useful tasks. More importantly, [this book] goes beyond 'how' and into 'why' —providing readers with a deeper understanding of QuickTime and how to benefit from using it in their own products." —Peter Hoddie, cofounder of Kinoma and former QuickTime architectQuickTime Toolkit, Volume Two continues the step-by-step investigation of programming QuickTime, the elegant and powerful media engine used by many of Apple's industry-leading services and products (such as the iTunes music store, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro) and also used by a large number of third-party applications. This second collection of articles from the author's highly regarded column in MacTech Magazine builds upon the discussion of playback techniques and media types presented in the first volume to cover advanced types of QuickTime media data, including video effects, Flash tracks, and skins. It shows how to capture audio and video data, broadcast that data to remote computers, play movies full screen, and load movies asynchronously. QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two also shows how to integrate Carbon events into your Macintosh application and how to work with Macintosh resources in your Windows application.Part of the official QuickTime Developer Series, publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple. - Written by one of Apple's premier media engineers skilled in revealing QuickTime's sophisticated technology to programmers - Offers many undocumented insider tips for making applications that work well in both Mac OS and Windows
Download or read book Programming with Quartz written by David Gelphman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by members of the development team at Apple, Programming with Quartz is the first book to describe the sophisticated graphics system of Mac OS X. By using the methods described in this book, developers will be able to fully exploit the state-of-the-art graphics capabilities of Mac OS X in their applications, whether for Cocoa or Carbon development. This book also serves as an introduction to 2D graphics concepts, including how images are drawn and how color is rendered. It includes guidance for working with PDF documents, drawing bitmap graphics, using Quartz built-in color management, and drawing text. Programming with Quartz is a rich resource for new and experienced Mac OS X developers, Cocoa and Carbon programmers, UNIX developers who are migrating to Mac OS X, and anyone interested in powerful 2D graphics systems. - This is the definitive guide to the revolutionary graphics system of Mac OS X that uses the Portable Document Format (PDF) as the basis of its imaging model - It contains the latest on programming with Quartz for Mac OS X version 10.4 - Carefully crafted and extensive code examples show how to accomplish most of the drawing tasks possible with Quartz
Download or read book QuickTime Toolkit Volume One written by Tim Monroe and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2004-07-09 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When QuickTime application developers get stuck, one of the first places they look for help is example code from Tim Monroe. Finally, Tim's well-crafted examples and clear descriptions are available in book form—a must-have for anyone writing applications that import, export, display, or interact with QuickTime movies." —Matthew Peterson; University of California, Berkeley; the M.I.N.D. Institute; and author of Interactive QuickTimeQuickTime Toolkit Volume One is a programmer's introduction to QuickTime, the elegant and potent media engine used by many of Apple's industry-leading services and products (such as the iTunes music store, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro) and also used by a large number of third-party applications. This hands-on guide shows you how to harness the powerful capabilities of QuickTime for your own projects. The articles collected here from the author's highly regarded column in MacTech Magazine are packed with accessible code examples to get you quickly started developing applications that can display and create state-of-the-art digital content. This book begins by showing how to open and display QuickTime movies in a Macintosh or Windows application and progresses step by step to show you how to control movie playback and how to import and transform movies and images. QuickTime Toolkit also shows how to create movies with video data, text, time codes, sprites, and wired (interactive) elements.Part of the official QuickTime Developer Series, publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple. - Written in a clear, engaging style by one of Apple's premier media engineers known for his ability to make QuickTime's sophisticated technology accessible to software developers - Offers many undocumented insider tips for making applications that work well in both Mac OS and Windows
Download or read book InfoWorld written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.
Download or read book Discovering QuickTime written by George Towner and published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for programmers, multimedia designers, and everyone interested in the latest media technology, this book gives you a step-by-step introduction to QuickTime programming, from movies and animation to streaming video on the Internet. The CD-ROM in the back provides working applications, sample code, and the essential programming resources you need to get started. QuickTime sets the standard for worldwide distribution of multimedia content. An increasing number of Windows and Macintosh application developers use its extensive toolkit to bring time and action to their programs. If you're going to compete in today's multimedia world, you need to understand QuickTime. What can QuickTime do for you? QuickTime is a complete system for working with all aspects of digital media. With QuickTime, you can: * Build, play, and edit movies on both Windows and Macintosh computers. * Fill your movies with a wide range of video, audio, graphic, and animation data, using most popular formats and compression standards. * Create Windows and Macintosh movie files that you can stream over the Internet or deliver on CD-ROM. * Make animated graphics with interactive capabilities. * Compose and play synthetic sounds and music, using QuickTime's built-in MIDI synthesizer. * Create virtual reality environments and 3D interactive models. This book shows you how to harness the power of QuickTime. It doesn't take weeks of work to achieve sophisticated multimedia effects; fewer than a dozen lines of Java or C can bring the power of QuickTime into your application. * * Includes a companion CD-ROM packed with QuickTime support materials, reference materials, and examples
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Download or read book Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography written by Harald Woeste and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader on a tour from the basics of capturing panoramas, all the way through stitching, editing, and printing panoramic images. This title provides a detailed description of the necessary equipment and materials, as well as the various software tools that can be used in the workflow.
Download or read book The Art of Subtraction written by Bruno Lessard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Back to the Future: The Rise of CD-ROM -- 2 In the Realm of Digital Heterotopias: Exploring CD-ROM Space -- 3 A Sensuous Gaze: Interactive Chronophotography and Relation-Images -- 4 A Cinema of One's Own: The Mediumistic Performance of the Female Body -- 5 Spaces of Desire: Mapping and Translating Lesbian Reality -- 6 In Search of Lost Space: Photographic Memories and the Digital Punctum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Download or read book Multimedia written by Randall Packer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I recommend this book to you with an earnestness that I have seldom felt for any collection of historic texts," writes William Gibson in his foreword.
Download or read book Environmental Systems written by Antonio S. Camara and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for scholars and students of geography, geology, environmental science, civil engineering, urban planning biology, and social sciences.
Download or read book Hominid Fossils written by James Ahem and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CD-based interactive atlas includes over 75 key fossils that are important for a clear understanding of human evolution. The QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) "object" movie format for each fossil will enable you to have a near-authentic experience of working with these important finds by allowing you to rotate the fossil 360 degrees. Unlike some virtual-reality media, QTVR objects are made using actual photographs of the real objects and thus better preserves details of color and texture. The fossils used include high-quality research casts and real fossils. The CD-ROM offers an inviting, authentic learning environment and contains a dynamic quizzing feature that will allow you to test your knowledge of fossil and species identification, as well as provide more detailed information about the fossil record.
