This page has links to all software plugins used on
the Wholeo Online immersive interactive imaging site. Flash and QuickTime are
the most important. Web3D VRML viewers will be in
time. Probably outdated: Zoom, iMove,
and SuperCard are required or mentioned
on a few pages.
Flash
Many works require Flash browser plug-in. If
the left hand movie says
"Flash 5 OK", you have the Flash 5+ plug-in. Otherwise,
a graphic might say "Upgrade Flash" or if it is
blank, you need the Flash plug-in. The other movie
tests for Flash 8. Flash 10 breaks some movies
in October, 2008 but now most are fixed.
In 2006, Adobe published Flash 9+ to prevent
security vulnerabilites, that is, prevent hackers
from using Flash destructively. Not a problem on
wholeo.net, but please upgrade your Flash plug-in. Frequent
updates are available from Adobe with
a small download. Here is how to do it:
Bookmark the Flash movie you want to see, then return to this page.
Click the download button.
Results vary according to platform. If the installation
is automatic, you can verify it with a test
movie on the Adobe page, and skip to the
last step (8.).
If asked, save the Installer to your desktop.
When the download is complete, locate the Installer and double-click on
it. The Installer will launch and dialog boxes will lead you through the
rest of the installation process.
Quit the browser and restart.
Return to the Flash movie you want to see. When it begins playing, your
installation is successful.
You need QuickTime
to see and hear many things on wholeo.net. QuickTime
includes a player, web browser plug-in, and essential
software supporting MP3, VR, Flash
***, and other
formats. Get one of the top web browser plug-ins
for a great variety of file types such as graphics,
music, sound, sprites, text, VRs, panoramas, animation,
and content streamed over the web. If you are having
trouble seeing the movies, you might need more
components. If you have a custom installation of
all components, see immersive
imaging for help page links.
*** QuickTime 7.1.5 fixed a problem
introduced with QuickTime 7.1.3 disabling embedded
Flash tracks by default. Previous versions enabled
Flash by default. Later QuickTime does not support
Flash tracks. For details, see the announcement.
VRML
Web3D VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
viewers Cortona and FreeWRL (Macintosh)
worked for me in 2008. To build your own model, see http://members.westnet.com.au/dharmraj/ for
a link to SpringDance, a free Windows program for
modeling synergetic geometry.
iMove
You need iMove viewer
(for Mac or PC) for some spherical displays. The download
includes both browser plugin and desktop viewer. Visit
the iMove
site .
This viewer was formerly named SmoothMove.
Zoom
Note, obsolete: If you don't have Zoom or one of the versions
of this applet developed from the Live Picture days, I don't know if you can
get it. I'm redoing the pages requiring Zoom. However, this paragraph is here
for historical reasons.
You need
MGI Software Zoom viewer from http://www.mgisoft.com/support (or it was
prior to 2003) to see some of the spherical displays. The viewer display is
not high quality but the download is small for what you get. You can see sphere
undistorted, in the round. You spin back, forth, up and down, just as you would
look around if you were really there, inside. Put your pointer in the window
and drag it around. The viewer space is a sphere. The download includes both
browser plugin and desktop viewer. This viewer was formerly named Live Picture.
(See also credits for Java applet.)
SuperCard
Note: the related SuperCard pages are obsolete, and could be updated,
using a current technology.
You needed a SuperCard
web plug-in (previously named Roadster),
to see a few special projects. Tested with Macintosh
only, before 2000. There no longer is a web plug-in
for SuperCard.
See immersive imaging for help, info, and all other immersive imaging, including QuickTime movies, at Wholeo Online.
