Chapter 14. Interactive Virtual Reality 3D Rich-Media PDF

When you think of 3D, you might envision the blue-green or polarized paper glasses you wear in a movie theater to transform a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional picture by providing depth of field. But in interactive rich-media PDFs, you have several ways to present a similar interactive experience where a user, via a mouse, can manipulate VR objects embedded in the pages.

In this chapter, I’ll discuss the various file formats and methods to produce object VR photography and how the pictures can be programmed to become a VR object movie. I will also discuss a new format, U3D, which became available in Adobe Reader 7, and you will learn how you can use this type of rich media ...

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