What are 360 Virtual Tours?
A virtual tour is an interactive tool used to excite potential customers with immersive representations of reality. Its rich media engages visitors by enabling them to pan up, down, left, and right with captivating 360° perspectives on any computer, tablet, or phone.
If a photograph is worth a thousand words, a virtual tour is worth a thousand photos because it shows details words can’t describe, and photos won’t convey.
Virtual Tours Lead to Real Sales
High-quality virtual tours instill trust by showing transparency and providing more information than a static photo or standard video can. It also accelerates sales by putting buyers in control of how and what they view, so they make purchasing decisions with confidence and respond to strategically placed Call To Action buttons when they are most likely to convert. Virtual tours are not only an added convenience that demonstrates how easy it is to do business with you but a means of creating sales opportunities by simulating real-life experiences, online.
Virtual Tours Improve Your Online Visibility
The usage of Virtual Tours sends signals to search engines to elevate your page ranking, so you are seen by more potential customers. This is because virtual tours increase web visitor retention or “stickiness” (time visitors spend on site), which lowers bounce rates, and promotes repeat visits. It is also because you can be seen in more places such as your website, social networks, Google Maps, and Google My Business pages.
How are Virtual Tours Made?
- Take a rotational sequence of individual images completely around, or within, a point of interest.
- Enhance, modify, or correct each image as needed in image editing software.
- Load files into specialized image stitching software to create an equirectangular projection of a spherical panorama.
- Integrate panoramic photos of different points of interest in Virtual Tour Software.
- Host completed virtual tour file
- Optimize Virtual Tours for Google Maps, Google My Business listing, your website, social networks
Our Virtual Tour Capabilities
- Custom and interactive hotspot icons and information text label overlays
- Call To Action cards (text, image, video link)
- Pop-out images
- Menu navigation overlays
- Personalized logos, branded look and feel
- Interactive sounds, background music or narrations
- Public or private unlisted hosting
- Branded links for sharing and embedding
- Posting on Google Maps, Google My Business
- Your website
- Your social networks
Ideal Virtual Tour Industries
- Amusement Parks
- Attraction Centers
- Banquet Halls
- Bars
- Big Boats
- Car Dealerships
- Convention Centers
- Country Clubs
- Exhibits
- Factories
- Health Clubs
- Hotels
- Recreation Centers
- Resorts
- Restaurants
- Retirement communities
- RV Dealerships
- Salons
- Schools
- Senior Citizen Facilities
- Spas
- Vacation Rentals
- Warehouses
Virtual Tour Production Packages Offer Quality Results at an Affordable Price
Prices for Virtual Tours are affordable, deliver impressive results, and customized to your specific business. Multiple factors need to be considered when developing an accurate price estimate, so please contact us to discuss how we could help you boost revenues, accelerate sales, and generate more word of mouth referrals and recommendations with our Virtual Tours.
How are panoramic photos for 360° virtual tours created
- To create one panoramic photo, it takes a series of sequential images surrounding 360° around a point of interest.
- Each image, representing different perspectives of the same subject or scene, is then loaded into an image editing software.
- After the images are corrected or enhanced, they are digitally stitched in specialized software to form an equirectangular projection of a spherical panorama.
- Each panorama representing a single point of interest is then processed in a Virtual Tour Application.
- All panoramic point of interest photos is then assembled into a Virtual Tour that simulates real-life experiences.
- To sample a VT yourself, click here.