The QuickTime VR Book : Creating Immersive Imaging on Your Desktop

By Susan A. Kitchens

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201696843
• ISBN13: 9780201696844
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Lots of information, but lacking some key points.

Quicktime VR expands on the user manual that comes with Quicktime Authoring Studio, and explains a lot of information that isn't clearly explained in the manual. For that reason, it is worth buying. I would have liked to have had more explanation about Quicktime VR and less about other programs that aren't Quicktime VR. I was also disappointed it didn't explain anything about resolution.. how to make high and low resolution QTVRs. The writer seemed to assume I knew how and mentioned that high resolution movies are larger... It also didn't explain what to do when you get that "tiling error" when you're asked to resize your image. All in all, the best book around for Quicktime VR (oh yeah, as far as I know, it's the only one).

Good, but not in-depth enough

I find that it is a comprehensive book about QuickTime VR. However, the book does not explain how to use the software in-depth. Anyway, it is still a good choice for studying what is QuickTime VR

Comprehensive, but not detailed

This book gives a great introduction to QTVR, but in my opinion it falls short on implementation detail. By covering a plethora of authoring tools, none of the tools or techniques is explored in-depth. There are some good nuggets here, and the book is well-written, but experienced QTVR artists may find that it doesn't go far enough.

An excellent book for beginners and experienced "QTVRtists"

As someone who has struggled through many questions about the world of QTVR, I found this book to be informative, enlightening and reassuring. I learned some new techniques, confirmed current processes and got a handy tip or two, all in a casual, reliable and readable style. Kitchens has made creating, editing, packing and shipping QTVRs easier with this one-stop approach. For now (until someone like me writes one) this is the definitive book on QTVR. Well done!

The only book you can get for QTVR, and it's great!

It's well-organized, imformative with some so-to-understand diagrams. I feel lucky to have this book when I am just about to explore the world of QTVR.