When you hold down the mouse button, the hand closes and you can turn the object in the direction you move the mouse, as if you had it in your hand and were examining it. You can zoom in on the object to look at it more closely, as well. QTVR Scenes can be very powerful, enabling you to navigate from panorama to panorama and virtually pick up objects inside the space. It is also possible to add hot spots to single QTVR panos and object movies. The hot spots can be associated with URLs when added to a web page.
Several choices exist currently.
Most QTVR creation software is fairly easy to use. Apple's QTVR software. Has the most features for QTVR media. It is harder to use than the other tools listed below, but currently the only one that lets you build QTVR scenes. Since May 1999, VR Toolbox's VR SceneWorx has also enabled the creation of VR scenes as well.