QuickTime VR is an Apple technology that turns an ordinary still photograph into a living, three-dimensional landscape — you can “turn your head” to look around, move forward or backward, or turn an object over in space to see the other sides.
To make this work, your Mac needs the QuickTime extension, which came already installed on your Mac.
There are two kinds of time VR “movies” — panoramas and object movies. In a panorama movie, you put your cursor in the middle of the photograph and, with the button down, drag the mouse up, down, left, or right to change the “camera angle” and look around. Meanwhile, you can press the Option key and Control key to “zoom in ” or “zoom out.”
Some Panorama movies are “multi-node” movies; this means you can jump to another spot in the scene (a new camera angle!). To do so, carefully move your mouse (without pressing the button) until the cursor changes shape. The new shape looks like a tiny circle with a fat arrow pointing up out of it. When your cursor takes this shape, click the mouse button to “move the camera” to that new position.
In an object movie, a single object hovers in space before you. Drag with the mouse in the middle of the picture to rotate the object.
