In photographic VR a 360° panorama is displayed in a viewer which creates an illusion of three dimensions because the user can look in different directions by clicking and dragging the image. Photographic VR was first developed by Apple's Advanced Technology Group in the early 1990s and was later merged with QuickTime and given the name QuickTime VR.

Apple's award-winning photorealistic cross-platform virtual reality technology has proved very successfull and is probably the most wide-spread technique for photographic VR so far, with more than 50 millions downloads of the industry standard QuickTime viewer - which is not only capable of displaying VR images but also more than 200 other kinds of digital media, like streaming video, audio and object movies.

If you have then you should be able to see an image below which you can drag to both sides with the mouse. You also can zoom in and out with the Shift and Ctrl keys.

If the picture is sideways then it's probably Windows Media Player trying to open it instead of QuickTime - either you haven't got QuickTime at all or you installed Windows Media Player afterwards.

..then don't hesitate but click on the button below to get it! (But be prepared for a rather lengthy download unless you're among the lucky ones with broadband Internet access.)

QuickTime is Apple's award-winning, industry-standard, software architecture for creating and viewing digital media for Mac OS and Windows. QuickTime is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.