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.

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