If you’ve been watching my photo galleries you might have noticed that I’ve been putting QTVR panoramas of the mountains I summit in lately. Panorama Factory is what I’ve been using to produce them and it’s just fantastic. I’ve been making QTVR’s for over 10 years now and for most of that time I relied on vrworx. When I left Bowdoin I lost access to my legal license for it, and my personal license was for a pre-os x version. I started hunting around for alternatives and after testing a bunch of stuff decided on the Panorama Factory. Nothing against vrworx, but $299.00 versus $60 made it an easy decision. vrworx is more featureful but it’s mostly things I wasn’t using and all in all it’s harder to use and seems to generate QTVR’s of lesser quality from the same set of photos. With Panorama Factory I literally just point, shoot, rotate myself a bit, and repeat, no tripod and no real effort to maintain a level plain, yet Panorama Factory kicks out QTVR’s of more than acceptable quality. It’s PC only but well worth a look if you’re interested in creating your own QTVR’s, or even just wide angle panoramic shot.