QuickTime VR

QuickTime VR was a feature set of QuickTime that was developed by Apple.

Features
QuickTime VR allowed the playback of files which mimicked virtual reality (VR). It could display VR objects which could be rotated by the user. It could also display VR panoramas, in which the user could change the field of view.

History
QuickTime VR 1.0 and some basic authoring tools were first released in July 1995 for QuickTime 2.0. QuickTime VR 1.1 and new tools were previewed at the 1996 Worldwide Developers Conference in May 1996.

QuickTime VR 2.0 was announced on January 7 during the 1997 Macworld Expo in San Francisco and demonstrated at the 1997 Worldwide Developers Conference in May. QuickTime VR Authoring Studio was released to the public on November 6, 1997.

Deprecation
Support for QuickTime VR was deprecated in April 2006 with the release of QTKit, which began the 64-bit transition to QuickTime X.

Alternatives
With the discontinuation of QuickTime VR, alternate authoring tools for VR panoramas and objects are available from Easypano, which supports Adobe Flash (which has since itself been discontinued) and HTML5. Other alternatives include Pano2VR and Object2VR.