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The QuickTime VR
author can also designate certain areas in the movie as hotspots that, when selected by the user, activate a
link to another page or another movie. Although purists argue that QTVR is not really virtual reality, the
technology is a low-bandwidth, quick-and-dirty virtual reality that makes sense on today??™s Web. QTVR is
commonly used to show homes, cars, and other products to potential buyers.
When you view a QuickTime VR movie, the QuickTime Player provides Zoom buttons (??“ and +), as shown
in Figure 26-14, and a custom mouse pointer pans the image left and right.
QuickTime VR tag attributes are entered in the same manner as other QuickTime Plugin attributes:
Click the Parameters button in the Plugin Property inspector to open the Parameters dialog box and
enter attributes and values. As with a regular QuickTime Player movie, the only required parameters for a
QTVR movie are the source file, movie width, and movie height.
Table 26-3 lists the QuickTime Plugin tag attributes that work with QuickTime VR only.
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FIGURE 26-14
QuickTime VR??™s panoramic views enable the user to look around in a panoramic picture by moving the cursor right,
left, up, and down.
TABLE 26-3
Additional Parameters for QTVR Movies
QuickTime VR Parameter Possible Values Description
Correction None or full (default) Applies the correction filter.


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