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The lowdown on iPIX
iPIX no longer offers its software that uses a $25 "Key" to produce
each Full 360x360 Image. Although they still support it and sell Keys. The Keys for their Real Estate Wizard, a lower level product, are only $20 for 5 keys. The iPIX Interactive Studio is sold as a one year license that can produce an unlimited number of images for a year. There is then a reduced renewel fee. Even so iPIX is not cheap software. $899 for the basic one year license with 2 add-on modules available at $499 each. With the Formatter module the iPIX Interactive Studio can output in Quicktime Cubic Panorama, Equirectangular Projection, Cubic Strip, Shockwave w3d and of course their propriatary .ipx format. The Enhancer module has image editing tools for touching up the images right in the Interactive Studio. They're pretty powerfull. But for some one in the business of producing multimedia for the Internet, that wants to offer Virtual Images for a fee, there's really no other pratical choice; Most of the hotel companies only support iPIX; Sheraton, Westin, Hilton, Doubletree, Wyndham, Radisson and Marriott. If you want to sell one of these hotels Virtual Images, iPIX is the only one they accept or the one they prefer. iPIX is one of the 3 Virtual Image Formats supported by Homestore.com, who distributes Virtual Tours to Realtor.com, ColdwellBanker.com, ERA.com, Century21.com, PrudentialRealEstate.com, REMAX.com and GMACRealEstate.com. Without fast distributuion, a virtual tour of a home for sale is useless. Some of the other virtual image software is very good, especially Quicktime VR. I use PhotoVista for printed panoramas. But iPIX is really the only choice for the serious Multimedia Producer that wants to do virtual imaging business with major companies. If you're only going to make a few Virtual Images for fun or a hobby, you should go with another company. Yes I'm an iPIX Virtual Tour photographer. Take a look ate my demo website at www.VirtualAlbuquerque.com Douglas Aurand Albuquerque, NM |
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DJAurand wrote:
iPIX no longer offers its software that uses a $25 "Key" to produce each Full 360x360 Image. Although they still support it and sell Keys. The Keys for their Real Estate Wizard, a lower level product, are only $20 for 5 keys. The iPIX Interactive Studio is sold as a one year license that can produce an unlimited number of images for a year. There is then a reduced renewel fee. Even so iPIX is not cheap software. $899 for the basic one year license with 2 add-on modules available at $499 each. With the Formatter module the iPIX Interactive Studio can output in Quicktime Cubic Panorama, Equirectangular Projection, Cubic Strip, Shockwave w3d and of course their propriatary .ipx format. The Enhancer module has image editing tools for touching up the images right in the Interactive Studio. They're pretty powerfull. But for some one in the business of producing multimedia for the Internet, that wants to offer Virtual Images for a fee, there's really no other pratical choice; Most of the hotel companies only support iPIX; Sheraton, Westin, Hilton, Doubletree, Wyndham, Radisson and Marriott. If you want to sell one of these hotels Virtual Images, iPIX is the only one they accept or the one they prefer. iPIX is one of the 3 Virtual Image Formats supported by Homestore.com, who distributes Virtual Tours to Realtor.com, ColdwellBanker.com, ERA.com, Century21.com, PrudentialRealEstate.com, REMAX.com and GMACRealEstate.com. Without fast distributuion, a virtual tour of a home for sale is useless. Some of the other virtual image software is very good, especially Quicktime VR. I use PhotoVista for printed panoramas. But iPIX is really the only choice for the serious Multimedia Producer that wants to do virtual imaging business with major companies. If you're only going to make a few Virtual Images for fun or a hobby, you should go with another company. Yes I'm an iPIX Virtual Tour photographer. Take a look ate my demo website at www.VirtualAlbuquerque.com Douglas Aurand Albuquerque, NM This is ******** - most real VR photographers would not touch iPix with a barge pole - the quality is simply not there - as well as their predatory / rip-off the photographer attitide. This subject has been done to death in many other forums. |
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DJAurand wrote:
iPIX no longer offers its software that uses a $25 "Key" to produce each Full 360x360 Image. Although they still support it and sell Keys. The Keys for their Real Estate Wizard, a lower level product, are only $20 for 5 keys. The iPIX Interactive Studio is sold as a one year license that can produce an unlimited number of images for a year. There is then a reduced renewel fee. Even so iPIX is not cheap software. $899 for the basic one year license with 2 add-on modules available at $499 each. With the Formatter module the iPIX Interactive Studio can output in Quicktime Cubic Panorama, Equirectangular Projection, Cubic Strip, Shockwave w3d and of course their propriatary .ipx format. The Enhancer module has image editing tools for touching up the images right in the Interactive Studio. They're pretty powerfull. But for some one in the business of producing multimedia for the Internet, that wants to offer Virtual Images for a fee, there's really no other pratical choice; Most of the hotel companies only support iPIX; Sheraton, Westin, Hilton, Doubletree, Wyndham, Radisson and Marriott. If you want to sell one of these hotels Virtual Images, iPIX is the only one they accept or the one they prefer. iPIX is one of the 3 Virtual Image Formats supported by Homestore.com, who distributes Virtual Tours to Realtor.com, ColdwellBanker.com, ERA.com, Century21.com, PrudentialRealEstate.com, REMAX.com and GMACRealEstate.com. Without fast distributuion, a virtual tour of a home for sale is useless. Some of the other virtual image software is very good, especially Quicktime VR. I use PhotoVista for printed panoramas. But iPIX is really the only choice for the serious Multimedia Producer that wants to do virtual imaging business with major companies. If you're only going to make a few Virtual Images for fun or a hobby, you should go with another company. Yes I'm an iPIX Virtual Tour photographer. Take a look ate my demo website at www.VirtualAlbuquerque.com Douglas Aurand Albuquerque, NM This is ******** - most real VR photographers would not touch iPix with a barge pole - the quality is simply not there - as well as their predatory / rip-off the photographer attitide. This subject has been done to death in many other forums. |
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DJAurand wrote:
iPIX no longer offers its software that uses a $25 "Key" to produce each Full 360x360 Image. Although they still support it and sell Keys. The Keys for their Real Estate Wizard, a lower level product, are only $20 for 5 keys. The iPIX Interactive Studio is sold as a one year license that can produce an unlimited number of images for a year. There is then a reduced renewel fee. Even so iPIX is not cheap software. $899 for the basic one year license with 2 add-on modules available at $499 each. With the Formatter module the iPIX Interactive Studio can output in Quicktime Cubic Panorama, Equirectangular Projection, Cubic Strip, Shockwave w3d and of course their propriatary .ipx format. The Enhancer module has image editing tools for touching up the images right in the Interactive Studio. They're pretty powerfull. But for some one in the business of producing multimedia for the Internet, that wants to offer Virtual Images for a fee, there's really no other pratical choice; Most of the hotel companies only support iPIX; Sheraton, Westin, Hilton, Doubletree, Wyndham, Radisson and Marriott. If you want to sell one of these hotels Virtual Images, iPIX is the only one they accept or the one they prefer. iPIX is one of the 3 Virtual Image Formats supported by Homestore.com, who distributes Virtual Tours to Realtor.com, ColdwellBanker.com, ERA.com, Century21.com, PrudentialRealEstate.com, REMAX.com and GMACRealEstate.com. Without fast distributuion, a virtual tour of a home for sale is useless. Some of the other virtual image software is very good, especially Quicktime VR. I use PhotoVista for printed panoramas. But iPIX is really the only choice for the serious Multimedia Producer that wants to do virtual imaging business with major companies. If you're only going to make a few Virtual Images for fun or a hobby, you should go with another company. Yes I'm an iPIX Virtual Tour photographer. Take a look ate my demo website at www.VirtualAlbuquerque.com Douglas Aurand Albuquerque, NM This is ******** - most real VR photographers would not touch iPix with a barge pole - the quality is simply not there - as well as their predatory / rip-off the photographer attitide. This subject has been done to death in many other forums. |
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"Keith" wrote in message ... DJAurand wrote: SNIP But iPIX is really the only choice for the serious Multimedia Producer that wants to do virtual imaging business with major companies. SNIP This is ******** - most real VR photographers would not touch iPix with a barge pole - the quality is simply not there - as well as their predatory / rip-off the photographer attitide. Indeed, see http://swpat.ffii.org/patente/wirkun.../index.en.html. This subject has been done to death in many other forums. But it can't be stressed enough, they are bad news for progress in VR photography. Bart |
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"Keith" wrote in message ... DJAurand wrote: SNIP But iPIX is really the only choice for the serious Multimedia Producer that wants to do virtual imaging business with major companies. SNIP This is ******** - most real VR photographers would not touch iPix with a barge pole - the quality is simply not there - as well as their predatory / rip-off the photographer attitide. Indeed, see http://swpat.ffii.org/patente/wirkun.../index.en.html. This subject has been done to death in many other forums. But it can't be stressed enough, they are bad news for progress in VR photography. Bart |
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Then why does iPIX continue to be the technology of choice for so many
major Real Estate and Corporate Hotel websites? I've expanded from Real Estate Tours to Hotel Tours and in a year and a half I did 9 hotels in 4 states; a Hilton, a Sheraton, a Wyndham, two Radissons, a Marriott and three independent hotels/resorts. Over 60 Images at $150 each How many tours did you provide to a major hotel or real estate website in the last year and a half |
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Then why does iPIX continue to be the technology of choice for so many
major Real Estate and Corporate Hotel websites? I've expanded from Real Estate Tours to Hotel Tours and in a year and a half I did 9 hotels in 4 states; a Hilton, a Sheraton, a Wyndham, two Radissons, a Marriott and three independent hotels/resorts. Over 60 Images at $150 each How many tours did you provide to a major hotel or real estate website in the last year and a half |
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Bart
iPIX's patents have been repeatedly upheld in US Federal Court. They own the US patent and they protect it They haven't lost a single case. What part of that don't you get? Doug |
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Bart
iPIX's patents have been repeatedly upheld in US Federal Court. They own the US patent and they protect it They haven't lost a single case. What part of that don't you get? Doug |
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