Taking A Look At 90’s Virtual Reality – Apple Quicktime VR Samples (1994)

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Apple QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., which handles various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. Released in 1991, QuickTime enabled users to play, record, edit, and share a wide range of digital media formats. It was more capable than Microsoft Windows Media Player with its avi container format. Quicktime supported a wide array of media types, including video, audio, and image files, and has been integrated into several Apple products and applications. Back in the day QuickTime on Apple computers was even ported to Windows and used for high-quality video playback in videogames and applications. These days not so much outside of the Apple environment.

QuickTime VR (Virtual Reality) is an extension of the QuickTime technology that allows the creation and viewing of panoramic images and virtual reality environments (360 degree spherical videos). Introduced in 1994, QuickTime VR provides a way to interact with and explore virtual spaces by stitching together photographs to create a 360-degree panoramic view. Users can navigate these immersive environments by clicking and dragging to change the perspective, giving a sense of being present in the virtual space. QuickTime VR has been used in many applications, including virtual tours, educational tools, and interactive exhibits, offered a new an engaging way to experience and interact with digital content.

These tools have played a significant role in the evolution of digital media, and information kiosks as well as bringing interactive media to the Internet but have since been surpassed by the development of streaming audio/video – which started on analog dial up modem techology.

I remember being quite flabbergasted by the 360 spherical imagery.

00:00:00 – MacOS9 (68k/PPC)
00:00:06 – Example of Quicktime and Quicktime VR use in “The Apple Company Store” application (1994)
00:05:01 – Various Quicktime VR samples

Audio used in this video was licensed from Epidemic Sound
track: 89 by Ben Elson

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