|
TourWrist is a free and open platform that empowers consumers and businesses to discover, shoot and share 360-degree panoramic images via computers, smartphones and tablets.〔"TourWrist" () Crunchbase. Retrieved February 24, 2012.〕 With a collection of over 30,000 panoramic images, TourWrist helps consumers make educated, location-oriented decisions by previewing immersive virtual tours of travel destinations, homes, businesses, schools and other points of interest.〔"Panoramic Photography Goes Mainstream in 2012; Powered by Apple, Google, Microsoft and TourWrist"() PRWeb. January 26, 2012.〕 The privately held San Francisco-based〔Margie Manning. "With TourWrist, Madera: Win Some, Lose Some in the Tech Game."() Tampa Bay Business Journal. September 23, 2011.〕 company launched commercially in the first quarter of 2011.〔"TourWrist Executive Summary"() TourWrist.com. Retrieved February 28, 2011.〕 ==Technology and Accessibility== Proprietary, patent-pending technology enables “TourWrists” to view, shoot, publish and share panoramas. The TourWrist platform consists of panoramic photography tools, back-end infrastructure and tour viewers. Businesses and consumers can upload panoramas to the platform’s back-end through the TourWrist app and third-party applications integrating the Publish to TourWrist API. The images are then processed, stored and delivered to websites and apps spanning mobile devices, tablets and computers in about ten minutes.〔"TourWrist Executive Summary"() TourWrist.com. Retrieved February 28, 2011.〕 The free app is available in the Apple iTunes App Store, with shooting capability on Apple iPhone 4 and Apple iPhone 4S.〔"TourWrist"() Apple iTunes Store. Retrieved February 28, 2012.〕 The app, which has been downloaded more than 600,000 times,〔"TourWrist Executive Summary"() TourWrist.com. Retrieved February 28, 2011.〕 converts phones and tablets into a movable window,〔"iWorld 2012 Best of Show Winners"() MacWorld. Retrieved March 7, 2012.〕 allowing “TourWrists” to “teleport” to distant environments.〔"TourWrist Among Top 20 New and Noteworthy iPhone Apps"() TourWrist.com. February 9, 2012.〕 TourWrist is the number one virtual tour viewing app in the iTunes Store. TourWrist also provides an HTML5 mobile-optimized web app for Android and Windows 7 devices.〔"TourWrist" () Crunchbase. Retrieved February 24, 2012.〕 In July 2011, TourWrist released a free Publish to TourWrist API, which enables third-party developers and companies to integrate in panoramic apps, software and hardware.〔"TourWrist 360-Degree Panoramic Virtual Tour Hosting Company Surpasses 20,000 Virtual Tour Scenes; Launches API & Eight White Label Apps"() PRWeb. July 18, 2011.〕 TourWrist is aggregating one of the world’s largest collections of geo-located virtual tours by acquiring content from: * consumers who upload from within the app * third-party companies that integrate the Publish the TourWrist API * professional panoramic photographers using the TourWrist content delivery network * large imports of existing panoramic databases〔"TourWrist" () Crunchbase. Retrieved February 24, 2012.〕 TourWrist also owns and operates the world’s largest panoramic photography forum Panoguide.com.〔"Panoramic Photography Goes Mainstream in 2012; Powered by Apple, Google, Microsoft and TourWrist"() PRWeb. January 26, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tourwrist」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|