

The virtual tours give
you a view of our facilities as if you are right there. You will
need the QuickTime player to view these movies. The player is
free and can be obtained from the icon on the right.
Choose the movie
you'd like to view:
Movies will open
in a new window. To return here, simply click the close window
button on the movie screen.
How
do I get the free QuickTime software?
If you don't already have the QuickTime plug-in (a "plug-in" is a
piece of software), you can
download it, free
of charge, from Apple Computer. It takes just a few minutes to
download it onto your hard disk and install it. From then on, it will
open automatically whenever you access QuickTime movies or QuickTime
VRs (often shown as "QTVR"), wherever you are on the Web. QuickTime
software is available for Windows OS and for Macintosh OS.
What is a QuickTime VR?
QuickTime VR (for "Virtual Reality") is one of the most striking
technologies on the World Wide Web today. If you don't already have
the QuickTime software on your system, it is worth every second of the
few minutes it takes to
download it
onto your hard disk and install it. What's more, it's free.
QuickTime images give
you an extraordinary sense of being there, on location where the
photographs that were used to build the VR were taken. With panoramic
VRs, you get the sense that you're standing in a certain spot and
spinning 360° on your heels, gaining a full-round view of whatever
scene is pictured. With object VRs, the object photographed is the
centerpoint, and you "walk" around it, just as if you were actually
doing so in reality.
How can I best view the QTVRs?
- Click and hold down
the mouse button to "grab" the image. Then slide the mouse left or
right, up or down to move the image.
- Another way to move
the image is to bring your cursor to either edge of the picture. The
hand will change to an arrow. Click and hold down the mouse button
to move the image.
- To zoom in, use the
Shift key. To zoom out, use the Control key. (On Macintoshes using
earlier versions of the QuickTime Software, the 'option' key zooms
in and the 'control' key zooms out.)
- If you want to zoom
in on a specific part of the picture, center that part and then
zoom. You might have to zoom a little and then go up or down to
center it.
- If the QTVR has links
to other QTVR files or Web pages embedded in it, your cursor will
change to a "hand" when passing over clickable links.
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