I will keep this simple. I am looking everywhere to find something to create 3d tour of an interior similar to photosynth and gmaps street view but only with javascript.
Seadragon is the closest thing I found but its not 3d. Sorry if this is too simple but please let me know if you know any API that this can be achieved with.
Thanks a bunch
[I need this to be working with current usual web technologies so HTML5 solutions won’t help]
Here are some stuff I found but not exactly my ideal:
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jQuery simple panorama viewer but this is not exactly sleek/intuitive but does have a appeal as in terms of scalability, it will not require members to spend so much time taking 100s of photos to create a 3d model of a space.
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of course Microsoft zoom it or seadragon which is really sleek and also doesn’t need excellent photography skills but doesn’t produce 3d models
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Photosynth and Unity are great but even though I am thankful to Itay Moav with his/her post below I really want and need to move away from expecting people to have a plugin on their system in order to access a service as this has a huge user experience down turn.
You want to look for a 3d space-filling-curve. A 3d sfc reduces the 3d complexity to a 1d complexity. It’s a bit like an octree and a fractal. For 2d you want to look for a 2d space-filling-curve. You want to look for Nick’s spatial index quadtree hilbert curve blog: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-indexing-with-Quadtrees-and-Hilbert-Curves.