CubicNavigator Tutorials

0. QuickStart Guide

The QuickStart guide takes you through the main features of CubicNavigator. It covers: • loading the sample tour, • panning, • multinodes, • displaying hotspots & labels, • the QuickAccess buttons, • maps, • fullscreen mode, • toggling between Web Page view and VR view, • slideshows, • searching bookmarks, and • preferences. Read QuickStart   or   Watch Video  [4:30]

1. Introduction

This introduction describes what CubicNavigator is and outlines its potential uses.
 
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2. Opening Locations

This chapter details how to open VR content from various sources, including bookmarks, typing in addresses, from Safari, from .webloc files, and from files on disk. It also discusses the differences between VR content and web pages.
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3. Viewing a Panorama

This chapter describes how to pan and zoom a panorama, how to enter fullscreen mode and how to switch on the keywords display.
 
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4. Multinode Tours and Maps

This chapter details how to go from node to node using hotspots, how to reveal hotspot locations and display labels, use the QuickAccess buttons to change nodes, and how to bring up 3D maps.
 
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5. Bookmarks

This chapter describes creating bookmarks, moving bookmarks, editing bookmarks, exporting, clearing and importing bookmarks, how to search for bookmarks using keywords, and the Edit Bookmarks window.
 
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6. Slideshows

This chapter introduces slideshows and covers choosing settings, music and starting and stopping a slideshow.
 
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7. Recording

This chapter describes recording a self-running tour, including making a recording, skipping through it, saving the recording as a file, playing it back in a slideshow, and other places recordings can be used.
 
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8. Preferences

This chapter details CubicNavigator's extensive Preferences, divided into the areas of Window preferences, Mouse preferences, Cache preferences, VR preferences, Color preferences, and Advanced preferences. It also covers customizing the toolbar.
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9. Shortcut Keys

This chapter lists the command keys used by CubicNavigator as well as shortcut mouse button clicks.
 
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10. AppleScript

This chapter describes how to use AppleScript to control CubicNavigator from a script and lists sample blocks of working AppleScript.
 
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11. Tips & Tricks

This chapter lists some of the more advanced ways of interacting with CubicNavigator.
 
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12. Glossary

The glossary lists some of the terms used both for CubicNavigator and the panoramic VR field in general.
 
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13. FAQ

The FAQ uses the question & answer format to explain some common introductory concepts for QuickTime VR and panoramic VR in general, provides outside links to helpful material on the web, and explains CubicNavigator's purpose and possible confusions when using it.
 
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