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Yeah. Why would they choose Quicktime VR when there are all those open source panoramic image formats available? Oh, that's right. There are none.

I think that's a rather false assumption, isn't it? What's so special about a panoramic image that it requires a complex format like QTVR to encode it? If you want an open source panoramic image format, there's jpeg, or png, or tiff, or... well... the list goes on. The only difference between a pano image, and a "regular" image is that the pano image is best viewed under a cylindrical or spherical projection to provide an "immersive" experience, and that's really a function of the image viewer, and not the image format. Heck, taking, and using panoramic images is a bog-standard technique in visual effects, and nobody uses QTVR formatted files in the process.

So, yeah, I think Mark's right (I just see blank webpages, too). It's not a lack of image formats that's the problem.