Fralin Biotechnology Center

Virtual Tour

What is QuickTime VR?

Directions for taking the interactive virtual tour:

1. Let the entire file load before trying to move from room to room. This may take about a minute with a fast T1 connection (much slower with modems)

2. Click and hold down mouse button while dragging your mouse (left, right, up or down) to get the full panorama!

3. To open doors, and to go outside or into other areas, watch the cursor change into a thick vertical arrow as you pan. This designates a hotspot which can be double clicked to take you to the spot you are viewing, enter a doorway, or to "walk" up or down stairs. Clicking on bottom half of stairwell doors takes one down stairs, while clicking on the upper half of the door allows one to go to the next floor up.

4. Use the tools at the lower left corner of the image to zoom in/out or find hotspots.

This site requires at lease Quicktime 2.0 Plug-in. If you don't have it, go to Apple. It's free!

Entire Tour (Multi-Node)

Partial Tours

Outside

Main Floor

Lower Level

Second Floor

Third Floor

QuickTime is an Apple technology that brings video, sound, music, 3D and virtual reality to Macintosh and Windows systems.

Virtual Reality is a computer-based immersive environment which allows a person to interact with and explore a spatial location.

QuickTime VR (or QTVR for short) is a photorealistic form of virtual reality which allows you to browse real or imagined places using a PC or Mac, and requires no specialized VR hardware. You move around in the VR space using mouse and/or keyboard.

QuickTime VR scenes are panoramic views of a particular place or places. You can zoom in or out, pan around, or look skywards or downwards to examine what it is like to be at the particular place.

Scenes can contain multiple locations, or just one location. You can tell whether a scene has multiple locations if it is called a multi-node scene, and/or if the cursor changes to be arrow-like while moving in the scene window. This is the cue to click and see the linked location.

For more information on QuickTime VR scenes, check out Apple Computer's website.