Another friend of mine in Australia wrote me an email today with this information. Anyone else in AU know anything about this ??
Hey Dave,
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.
I think this is utter Xs.
How can anyone get a patent on performing Virtual Tour work?
Didn't Ipix try this Xs a few years ago??
We've been doing floorplan-driven Virtual Tours since early 2000. And this mob only uses still photos, not moving pans.
Have you heard anything?
Any thoughts on the subject?
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Dave
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