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Ukrainian Traditional Folklore
This is one room of the house made in Strata. It looks like a normal plan you could draw on paper. But the little black square is a "camera" which can take a "photograph" of the model - like the one with the red lines coming out of it.
 

The picture on the left is what that camera "sees". It shows the bed, the rug on the wall and pictures hanging on the wall.

 

For the "Virtual House", a panoramic (360 degree) photograph is taken, which is then converted into a QuickTime VR movie with VR Worx.
 
Finally, in VR Worx, many of these QTVR movies are combined with images to make the final QTVR movie of the whole "Virtual Farm". This final movie contains 33 jpg and 12 QTVR movies and has to be highly compressed to show over the WWW.