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Re: ALERT Austrialian Patent on VRTours ??
Simon Maguire 2005-May-10 13:29:00
Thanks Dave, it's a bit of a joke and I've never heard of the company or any
of the individuals and I've been producing similar with/without panos for
over 5 years for Residential and Commercial Real Estate agents in Melbourne
Australia.
Simon
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From: "Dave 360texas.com" <#removed#>
To: <#removed#>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:08 PM
Subject: ALERT Austrialian Patent on VRTours ??
> 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"?
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> http://www.proactivetours.com.au/
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> They have Patent No 2003250595 "Interactive Property Tour"
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Dave
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