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ALERT Austrialian Patent on VRTours ??
Dave 360texas.com 2005-May-10 13:08:00
Received an email from an Austrialian friend of mine just today. He
wrote:
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Ever heard of an Aussie Virtual Tour company called, "Pro Active
Tours"?
http://www.proactivetours.com.au/
They have Patent No 2003250595 "Interactive Property Tour"
A system for creating a web based tour for an item of interest
characterised in that it includes the steps of: -establish a tour
identity -associating one or more reference images with the tour
identity -positioning one or more reference icons on one or more of
the said reference images, each said reference icons being
associated with a further reference image -and wherein a position of
each said reference icons is selected to provide information
relating to said further reference image
A friend of mine doing Virtual Tours in Melbourne has received a
letter from a law firm from this virtual tour company, claiming he
owes them money from March 2004 for all the work he has placed
online.
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Anyone else heard of this ??? Their site uses static images not
panoramas but it could affect people who use this technique to link
panoramas.
Dave