PangeaVR stats

[Brian Greenstone]

I thought I'd throw out some stats on the first 4 days of PangeaVR usage for you all.  
Unfortunately, Apple took the download counters away after only 12 hours, so I don't know
how many times it has been downloaded, but I do know this:

• The app has been launched 58,016 times!
• My Panomundo site has been viewed 1,670 times
• It is the #2 most popular download in the Photography category!

I didn't expect this much interest, so version 1.0 only allowed a max of 50 portfolios which
we have now filled up.  Version 1.1 has been submitted to Apple, and will hopefully be
approved very soon.  Once they do, I'll be able to add even more since it supports up to 500
portfolios.

-Brian

[Willy Kaemena-2]

Brian

58016 application launches  means 58016 panoramas viewed?  or how we should understand this??

anyway   already impressive numbers so far !

last 24h I have got 58 (42 iPhone/ 17 iPod Touch)  visitors to my  linked website on my portfolio. And I am at last position of the long list.....

As you could assume that maybe 5% are clicking the provided weblink, that  translates in quite a number of  panoramas viewed on the iPhone / iPod Touch

Maybe  some others  with access to their server log  can give some figures how many equirects were downloaded...


Willy Kaemena

http://homepage.mac.com/wkaemena/FSPanos/Menu268.html
http://bremen.360cities.net/
http://syria.360cities.net/
http://lisbon.360cities.net/

>> From: Brian <brian@...>
>> Date: July 14, 2008 15:23:51 GMT+02:00
>> To: PanoToolsNG@...
>> Subject: [PanoToolsNG] PangeaVR stats
>> Reply-To: PanoToolsNG@...
>>
>> I thought I'd throw out some stats on the first 4 days of PangeaVR  
>> usage for you all.
>> Unfortunately, Apple took the download counters away after only 12  
>> hours, so I don't know
>> how many times it has been downloaded, but I do know this:
>>
>> ? The app has been launched 58,016 times!
>> ? My Panomundo site has been viewed 1,670 times
>> ? It is the #2 most popular download in the Photography category!
>>
>> I didn't expect this much interest, so version 1.0 only allowed a  
>> max of 50 portfolios which
>> we have now filled up. Version 1.1 has been submitted to Apple, and  
>> will hopefully be
>> approved very soon. Once they do, I'll be able to add even more  
>> since it supports up to 500
>> portfolios.
>>
>> -Brian
>>
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>Willy Kaemena
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>http://homepage.mac.com/wkaemena/FSPanos/Menu268.html
>http://bremen.360cities.net/
>http://syria.360cities.net/
>http://lisbon.360cities.net/
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[Brian Greenstone]

No 58,016 launches simply means the app has been launched 58,016 times.  No way to
know how many panos viewed.  Figure the average person views 3, then that's 150k.

-Brian



--- In PanoToolsNG@..., panokaemena@... wrote:
>
> Brian
>
> 58016 application launches  means 58016 panoramas viewed?  or how we should
understand this??
>
> anyway   already impressive numbers so far !
>
> last 24h I have got 58 (42 iPhone/ 17 iPod Touch)  visitors to my  linked website on my
portfolio. And I am at last position of the long list.....
>
> As you could assume that maybe 5% are clicking the provided weblink, that  translates
in quite a number of  panoramas viewed on the iPhone / iPod Touch
>
> Maybe  some others  with access to their server log  can give some figures how many
equirects were downloaded...
>
>

[Henri Smeets]

Great news that the app is picking up Brian, it deserves it of course!

Maybe you'll get even more hits if you post a message as well on the Panoguide forum.

Have you got a wish list yet somewhere for new features, maybe a forum for Pangea (VR) itself.

Looking forward to seeing new and improved versions of course :)

Henri

[Milko K. Amorth]

Hi Brian,
Congratulations to your good startup.

My portfolio xml was individually loaded:
7/11- 115times
7/12- 220 times
7/13- 326 times

Youtube promo --302times

50 entries on the list with potentially 500 on the list will propably
bring some other concerns to light.
 From the video i saw the entries are sorted rather messy. Haven't
thought about that when submitting.
But i saw quite a few 360....., Virtual
....VR.....Panoramas....redundancies.
With a couple of hundred in the list its going to be hard to keep the
sorting logistic ....No?

Cheers, Milko


--
Milko K.Amorth
ph:604.561.5101
fx:604.909.5125

www.VRCanada.ca
360° Immersive Imaging
Skype: VRdundee

[crane-2]

Quoting panokaemena@...:

>
> Maybe  some others  with access to their server log  can give some figures
> how many equirects were downloaded...
>

fill your boots

http://www.panagito.com/usage


regards

mick

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[Robert Bilsland]

Well congratulations Brian, it all seems to be going very well with
some rather glowing comments being posted about it from all over the
world.

Stats for Saturday for me shows that I had 172 unique visitors,
requesting the xml file 190 times, requesting 393 panoramas to be
delivered. The majority of the traffic originated from the USA and
Europe but I did manage to get a single visit from the Ukraine and
Singapore. And all this from some one who is listed way down on the
list. Maybe I should rename my entry "Aardvark Panoramas"?

Thanks again Brian,

Bob Bilsland.


--- In PanoToolsNG@..., "Brian" <brian@...> wrote:
>
> I thought I'd throw out some stats on the first 4 days of PangeaVR
usage for you all.  
> Unfortunately, Apple took the download counters away after only 12
hours, so I don't know
> how many times it has been downloaded, but I do know this:
>
> • The app has been launched 58,016 times!
> • My Panomundo site has been viewed 1,670 times
> • It is the #2 most popular download in the Photography category!
>
> I didn't expect this much interest, so version 1.0 only allowed a
max of 50 portfolios which
> we have now filled up.  Version 1.1 has been submitted to Apple, and
will hopefully be
> approved very soon.  Once they do, I'll be able to add even more
since it supports up to 500
> portfolios.
>
> -Brian
>

[aiwetir-2]

i think a new way to browse the portfolios will be in order if there  
are 500 in the list.
mmm

On 14 Jul 2008, at 10:42, Robert Bilsland wrote:

>
> Well congratulations Brian, it all seems to be going very well with
> some rather glowing comments being posted about it from all over the
> world.
>
> Stats for Saturday for me shows that I had 172 unique visitors,
> requesting the xml file 190 times, requesting 393 panoramas to be
> delivered. The majority of the traffic originated from the USA and
> Europe but I did manage to get a single visit from the Ukraine and
> Singapore. And all this from some one who is listed way down on the
> list. Maybe I should rename my entry "Aardvark Panoramas"?
>
> Thanks again Brian,
>
> Bob Bilsland.
>

[crane-2]

Quoting Philip Warner <philip@...>:

> Brian,
>
> Congratulations on a successful launch!  Looking at my stats this
> morning I've had 1,872 iPhone visitors the past few days.  The number
> one pano was viewed 814 times.
>
> I don't have an iPhone yet and need to visit the Apple store to see
> what they look like using PangeaVR.

they are great for that  but the battery life seems crap.

regards

mick

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[Philip Warner-2]

Brian,

Congratulations on a successful launch!  Looking at my stats this
morning I've had 1,872 iPhone visitors the past few days.  The number
one pano was viewed 814 times.

I don't have an iPhone yet and need to visit the Apple store to see
what they look like using PangeaVR.

Phil


--- In PanoToolsNG@..., "Brian" <brian@...> wrote:
>
> I thought I'd throw out some stats on the first 4 days of PangeaVR
usage for you all.  
> Unfortunately, Apple took the download counters away after only 12
hours, so I don't know
> how many times it has been downloaded, but I do know this:
>
> • The app has been launched 58,016 times!
> • My Panomundo site has been viewed 1,670 times
> • It is the #2 most popular download in the Photography category!
>
> I didn't expect this much interest, so version 1.0 only allowed a
max of 50 portfolios which
> we have now filled up.  Version 1.1 has been submitted to Apple, and
will hopefully be
> approved very soon.  Once they do, I'll be able to add even more
since it supports up to 500
> portfolios.
>
> -Brian
>

[Keith Martin-2]

Sometime around 14/7/08 (at 10:45 -0700) aiwetir said:

>i think a new way to browse the portfolios will be in order if there
>are 500 in the list.

Yep. The rolling scroller is cool, but it really isn't the right UI
for longer lists. I think even 50 items is stretching it - 500? Yikes!

It is all Brian's call of course. But perhaps location-based picking
might help?

k

[bohonus]

--- In PanoToolsNG@..., Keith Martin <keith@...> wrote:

>
> Sometime around 14/7/08 (at 10:45 -0700) aiwetir said:
>
> >i think a new way to browse the portfolios will be in order if there
> >are 500 in the list.
>
> Yep. The rolling scroller is cool, but it really isn't the right UI
> for longer lists. I think even 50 items is stretching it - 500? Yikes!
>
> It is all Brian's call of course. But perhaps location-based picking
> might help?
>
> k

The PangeaVR viewer is a nice way to introduce people to the content we create by
demonstrating the content on the iPhone. But I think ultimately, the VR viewer would best
serve as a "helper app" to open VR images attained through navigating existing web pages
and other such sites that are better suited making your way to any of the thousands of VRs
already online.

Does the iPhone Safari browser have such a capability?

For example: Go to a web page, click on a link for a VR image, launch the viewer and show
the pano along with the XML data that goes with it?

[Milko K. Amorth]

Hi Phil,
> I don't have an iPhone yet and need to visit the Apple store to see
> what they look like using PangeaVR.
>  

Willy's friend did a video of it playing on YT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRncOVaJBiw

Cheers, Milko


--
Milko K.Amorth
ph:604.561.5101
fx:604.909.5125

www.VRCanada.ca
360° Immersive Imaging
Skype: VRdundee

[Robert C. Fisher-2]

I actually just sent an email to Brian a little while ago about that.  
It would be really useful to be able to access Pangea VRs from a site  
set up for mobile phones for tour like use.

I could then offer this to my clients!

On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:13 PM, bohonus wrote:

> The PangeaVR viewer is a nice way to introduce people to the  
> content we create by
> demonstrating the content on the iPhone. But I think ultimately,  
> the VR viewer would best
> serve as a "helper app" to open VR images attained through  
> navigating existing web pages
> and other such sites that are better suited making your way to any  
> of the thousands of VRs
> already online.
>
> Does the iPhone Safari browser have such a capability?
>
> For example: Go to a web page, click on a link for a VR image,  
> launch the viewer and show
> the pano along with the XML data that goes with it?
>

Cheers
Robert C. Fisher
VR Photography/Cinematography

[Rodolpho Pajuaba-2]

I have no clue of how this programming thing works, but I can make an
analogy with the behaviour of DevalVR "hijacking" the MIME from QT to
allow QTVR movies to open with DevalVR instead (which I learned from
Mark Huff at the QTVR list.). Could it be done following the same line
of thought?
Regards,
Rodolpho Pajuaba

Robert C. Fisher escreveu:
> I actually just sent an email to Brian a little while ago about that.  
> It would be really useful to be able to access Pangea VRs from a site  
> set up for mobile phones for tour like use.
>
> I could then offer this to my clients!
>
>  
>

[Philip Warner-2]

Hi Milko,

I saw that video and the application with your Cherry Blossom panorama
looked great.  I want to see how MY panos looked! ;-)  

Because I don't need the 2yr AT&T contract I might pick up an iTouch
if the application will work on it through wifi.  I'm guessing that
Brian's PangeaVR program will have the ability to view files saved on
the unit in the next update or two.  If not there is always the
CubeWorld option that works now.  

I also noticed a lot of people trying to sell their iTouch on
craigslist.org because they're buying the new phone.  I'll need look
into it a little more.  I need to get out and shoot a few new panos
this week!

Phil


--- In PanoToolsNG@..., "Milko K. Amorth" <panotools@...>
wrote:

>
> Hi Phil,
> > I don't have an iPhone yet and need to visit the Apple store to see
> > what they look like using PangeaVR.
> >  
>
> Willy's friend did a video of it playing on YT:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRncOVaJBiw
>
> Cheers, Milko
>
>
> --
> Milko K.Amorth
> ph:604.561.5101
> fx:604.909.5125
>
> www.VRCanada.ca
> 360° Immersive Imaging
> Skype: VRdundee
>

[hoylekoontz]

I just read where Apple sold 1 million iPhones over the past weekend!
 It took 74 days to sell 1 million of the original iPhones!

-Hoyle

--- In PanoToolsNG@..., "Philip Warner" <philip@...> wrote:

> Because I don't need the 2yr AT&T contract I might pick up an iTouch
> if the application will work on it through wifi.  

[Keith Martin-2]

Sometime around 14/7/08 (at 19:54 +0000) Philip Warner said:

>I might pick up an iTouch
>if the application will work on it through wifi.

That should work just fine.


>I'm guessing that
>Brian's PangeaVR program will have the ability to view files saved on
>the unit in the next update or two. If not there is always the
>CubeWorld option that works now.

But only if you keep your pre-2.0 device at version 1.1.4. A new
version is promised, but it isn't done yet and then needs to get on
the app store.

PangeaVR is doing truly fantastic things for the visibility of
panoramas, but on a personal level some way to view local files is
the most important feature for me.

k

[steinifjall]

Hi

Here are my Statistics

July 12  377 visits, 414 pages, 822 hits 157,52 mb bandwidth use
July 13  735 visits, 805 pages, 1585 hits 303,58 mb bandwidth use

My portfolio is Aurora Borealis by Steini Fjall. Hope to be able to add some more portfolios
soon.

One more thing...

...as we don't have iPhone or iTunes music store here in Iceland, my only way to fallow up is
here on this list. I have a huge request to someone out there to make me a Youtube promo of
how my pano looks like on the iPhone... please someone-anyone.

It is estimated that of all mobile phones here in Iceland that iPhone has about 10-20% of the
market. They are all hacked so we cant download PangeaVR as we don't have access to iTunes
store. That goes for iPod touch

[Geoff Mather]

OK well Stats here indicate that the portfolio.xml file has been
downloaded 1366 times and 1192 pano files have been read and that's at
Mon 14th 10:00 GMT.

Busy at  the moment adding the the Lat/Lon data for the next version!

Geoff
<http://www.sphericalvisions.com>