February 2002 — Software/Courseware
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Photovista Virtual Tour and Reality Studio
High school and
college students can get a boost from MGI's Web tools, including
Photovista Virtual Tour and Reality Studio. With Photovista Virtual
Tour users can create panoramic images, and also add 3-D
functionality that lets visitors pick up objects within an image and
rotate them for complete viewing. Multiple panoramas can also be
stitched together for a complete viewRng experience that's ideal for
individual school or full-district virtual tours.
Photovista Reality Studio is a complete set of tools for those who
want to build compelling Web content. The tool lets users build
images quickly and easily, and add links containing text, sound and
URLs to panoramas. Reality Studio comes with MGI PhotoVista software,
letting users utilize photos from any source and The Object Modeler,
which lets users create 3-D image objects. The program supports AVI,
JPEG, WAV, animated GIFs and QuickTime files. MGI, Richmond Hill,
Ontario, (888) 644-7638, www.mgisoft.com.