We provide Virtual Realty as 360 Virtual Tour services or Panoramic Virtual Tours in the Vancouver BC area for Real Estate and Commercial Properties, Tourism, and for Marketing, providing home viewers a virtual experience without actually physically being there. The tours also covers 360 degree views of car interiors, houses, offices, museums, hotels, car interiors and travel destinations as well as informational hotspots for the tours. We also provide service in walk through 360 tours that is similar to Google Street View. In addition, our tours can also be published directly onto Goggle Street View. Our 360 Virtual Tours can be used on Youtube as a 360 video. This is also called virtual viewing for real estate in lieu of holding in-person open houses.
360 Virtual Tour with Hotspots – Click on the “i” symbol to reveal detailed information about the unit.
About Us: You may learn more about our company’s philosophy here.
About 360 Virtual Tour
About Virtual Tour
About: We provide 360 and Panoramic Virtual Tour services in the Vancouver BC area for Real Estate and Commercial Properties, Tourism, Educational uses, and for Marketing – used to providing visitors a sense of how it is like being at a location, without actually being there.
The tours are also known as Virtual Realty, giving anyone – a buyer or curious out of town tourists, a virtual walk-through of the destination or property in 360 degrees interactive environment, all in the comfort of their own home. They can do advanced researches on how the destinations look like before they plan their travel, as an example.
Infobox Hotspots: We can integrate hotspots, video, information textboxes with photos and texts into the Virtual Tour. Each particular area in the 360 environment can have hotspots, which are clickable dots that when clicked on, shows a pop up information describing what that particular area is. The hotspots can have a close up detailed photo and text as popup information.
Different formats: The 360 tours can be published on HTML5 format, allowing them to be seen across all tablets, mobile devices and computers.
Offline Viewing: The virtual tours can also be made available in offline format, so that the customer can show their own customers in a private non-public way, or for their own internal personal use.
Different types of tours: In addition, there are different types of tours we offer. One is the traditional area by area 360 tour (ie: by Kitchen, Living Room, Master, etc). The other is the complete walk-through 360 tour, which is similar to Google’s Street View Virtual Tour by following the arrow pathways throughout the property, making the experience more immersive. The walk-through has many different rotational points. The walk-through can have hotspots info boxes, video, narration, and audio integration with it as well.
The Virtual Tours can be programmed and customized to include music, popup infobox hotspots, narrative voiceovers, etc so that it can be designed as an educational tool or to tell a story about the situation.
Panoramic Virtual Tours: We offer interactive panoramic virtual tours where users can scroll the image left and right, but not in a 360 degree and does not include up and down motion. It is also possible to auto playback the horizontal moving motion like a video, once the tour is loaded.
Matterport Alternative: Our tours have a similar functioning concept to Matterport, despite using different outputs. Our tours are similar to what you see on Google Street View. Matterport service requires monthly subscription while our files can be hosted on our server or your server at no extra charge. Matterport owns the data, while with our services, the customer owns the data. Matterport also may not have the ability to customize the infobox hotspots like we do. Despite this, we still offer limited Matterport Virtual Tour services.
Matterport Virtual Tour: In addition to offering our own version of 360 self hosted, some businesses like to have the Matterport service available as it may offer a 3D walkable model and thus have more realism in moving around in the virtual space.
Google Street View: Our tours can be published directly onto Google Maps as Street View. However, private homes or private properties cannot utilize this method (ie: Real estate)
We also do Virtual Tours for inside of the car’s interior as well.
Some realtors designate the concept of Virtual Tour as Video Tours. Please visit this page for more details on Virtual Tours using Video Tours.
Educational and Distance Education Learning
Educational institutions and distance learning programs or online school may find 360 Virtual Reality useful in teaching students world concepts and life skills, by simulating an environment where they cannot physically be there themselves. Students can also listen in to narration while viewing the 360 tour and can learn more about specific topics by clicking on info box hotspots. Hotspots themselves can have video or photo and description with voiceover in it, detailing more about that particular concept.
Google Cardboard VR Headset Technology
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Our 360 Virtual Tour and Walk-Through 360 Virtual Tours can be displayed on VR Headset devices that utilizes Google Cardboard technology. Users simply need a compatible mobile device, a Google Cardboard setup or purchase a separate VR Headset. |
Works across all devices
- HTML5 – This method is the next generation internet programming for displaying webpages, and is supported on Computer Desktop browsers (IE 9+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc), Mobile Devices / Tablets (iOS Apple, Android 4.0+ Firefox, Chrome only).
- The published tour is given to the customer for use on their own websites.
- The tours can also be published as DVD’s or as a high resolution stand-alone file player exported as a EXE executable file to be played on Microsoft Windows operating system platforms.
- Note: Adobe Flash is no longer supported – moving forward, all work is published in open source web standards (HTML5)
Large coverage of service
We provide our service anywhere in the Lower Mainland in the Vancouver, BC area.
Rates
Includes on location shooting, equipment, and camera setup, fuel surcharge, photo retouching
Matterport vs Our Virtual Tour
We offer Matterport virtual tour services, in addition to our own Virtual Tour services.
| Our 360 Virtual Tour | Matterport Virtual Tour |
| No monthly subscription | Requires high monthly subscription |
| Uses our own web server and software – flexible | Uses their proprietary services and hosted on their server |
| Overall lower cost | Overall higher cost |
| Can be published on own web server or Google Business and Google Maps | Must use Matterport’s server; cannot be used on Google Maps and Google Business |
| Same end result to consumers – view 360 degrees | Same end result to consumers – view 360 degrees |
| Viewable 360 functions similar to Google Street View | Can render into 3D walkable model |
Examples
Examples
360 Virtual Tours can now be exported to be viewed in Youtube mode as 360 Interactive Videos. For the player below, you may use your mouse or finger to drag the image around while the video is playing, just like conventional 360 Still Photos Virtual Tours.
For Mobile Devices – Please access YouTube directly from the mobile app to view the 360 Interactive.
Please click on the thumbnails to view the Virtual Tours. In addition, please review information on 360 Virtual Tours for Real Estate and Interior Design Applications.
360 Tour Examples in HTML5:
View Crescent Beach in Full Screen
View Greek Arbutus Centre in Full Screen
View Beecher Place in Full Screen
View Burnaby Public House in Full Screen
360 Virtual Tour of Scottish Centre
View Scottish Centre in Full Screen
360 Virtual Tour of Roma Hall with hotspots (HTML5)
View Roma Hall in Full Screen
360 Virtual Tour of Serbian Centre with hotspots (HTML5)
View Serbian Centre in Full Screen
High Resolution, Full Width HTML5 UBC Classroom
View UBC Classroom in Full Screen
View car interior in Full Screen
High Resolution, Full Width HTML5 Apartment Suite
View Living Room in Full Screen
Panoramic Virtual Tours: We offer interactive panoramic virtual tours where users can scroll the image left and right, but not in a 360 degree and does not include up and down motion. It is also possible to auto playback the horizontal moving motion like a video, once the tour is loaded. Having the panorama tour auto playback simulates a virtual realty and also simulates a video playback, while still allowing user to override and interactively pan the image left and right.
Sometimes this maybe sufficient enough as an alternative to 360 degree motion. If users just wanted to see a general wide angle panoramic view of the skyline, scenery, interior space – just to get a quick idea of how a wide view looks like.
Click here to view the interactive and automated playback panorama view of BC Place Stadium – Floor Field Level
Click here to view the interactive and automated playback panorama view of BC Place Stadium – Corner View Level
Click here to view the interactive and automated playback panorama view of BC Place Stadium – Middle View LevelWalk-through Tour
Complete Walk-through 360 Virtual Tour
Our 360 Virtual Tour comes in 2 different forms. One form is standard Virtual Tour, having a few rotations representing main locations of the house such as only master bedroom, living room, kitchen, and dining room. The other form is a walk-through enhanced 360 Virtual Tour, whereby many rotations are photographed at many points along the pathways of the property, and viewers can click on directional arrows to follow along the path to view the property. The walk-through tour is similar to Google Street View maps feature. Applicable use of this walk through tour can be used in Tourist attractions such as aquariums and museums, and informational popup hotspots can be integrated into the tour to showcase specific information.
These 360 virtual walkthrough interactive tours can be used to showcase commercial environments such as schools, campuses, offices, etc.
We offer limited Matterport virtual tour services, in addition to our own Virtual Tour services.
360 Virtual Tour – Use mouse or finger to move image all around.
Note: You may find more examples of this type of tour at the 360 Walk Through Virtual Tour Page.
Street View
Google Street Views
We are capable of providing 360 Virtual Tour services, to be directly integrated into Google Maps as Street View. Please visit that page for more details.
Hotspots Infobox
360 Tours with Hotspots and Infobox Details
The virtual tours can be customized to display a walk through type tour, joining several panaromas together using hotspots controls, and also having users bring up an infobox at several points of interests showing closeup photo of the detailed point along with descriptions. An example is a walk through tour of a bus, where users can also zoom in or click on the points of interests to display an infobox that outline details of the overhead control panel above the driver seat, along with the description.
360 Virtual Tours with hotspots are very useful for training and educational purposes. Users can click on details within the tour, bringing up close up details, descriptions and photo of that particular area. Voiceovers and music can also be integrated within the tour itself to bring a more virtual reality experience. Online schools and Distance Learning programs may benefit from this by exposing students into a more immersive lifelike environment with interaction capabilities.
360 Virtual Tour – Use mouse or finger to move image all around. Click on the “i” logos to reveal information detailed hotspots.
360 Virtual Tour – Use mouse or finger to move image all around. Click on the “i” logos to reveal information detailed hotspots.
Narrated Hotspots
An enhancement to our 360 Virtual Tour is having a narrated voiceover for each particular hotspots while the user interacts with the 360 Virtual Tour environment. This is also known as a virtual tour guide, where the user looks around the environment while listening to the tour guide describing the environments. The tour pages can also have repeated looping instrument music to give the tours a more enjoyable experience.
These narrated hot spot virtual tours are ideal for educating the public, as well as for tourism and education sectors.
Each particular area in the 360 environment can have hotspots, which are clickable dots that when clicked on, shows a pop up information describing what that particular area is. The hotspots can have a close up detailed photo and text as popup information.
This feature works very well for Real Estate 360 Virtual Tour environments as well.
1. Canada Place 360 Narrated Virtual Tour in HTML5 – featuring music background, clickable hotspots that has voice narration describing the point of interest.
Canada Place 360 Narrated Virtual Tour with Hotspots in HTML5