Virtual Tour FAQ’s

A virtual tour is a photographic simulation of a real-life location. In it, you can look around in every direction and move from one position to another as if you were there in person. Virtual tours are created using specialised software and cameras that capture panoramic images, which are then stitched together to create a seamless, interactive experience for the viewer.

The primary difference between a video and a virtual tour is interactivity. While a video is a set of predetermined film images you watch from start to finish at a pace set by the filmmaker, a virtual tour allows viewers to explore and navigate a space interactively. In a virtual tour, viewers can typically move around, zoom in and out on features of interest, and interact with elements within the environment, providing a more immersive experience than a traditional video.

Google virtual tours, often called Google Street View or Google Maps tours, are interactive 360-degree panoramic images of indoor and outdoor spaces captured using Google’s Street View technology. These tours allow users to virtually explore businesses, landmarks, museums, and other points of interest directly within Google Maps or Google Search. We can capture your business spaces and upload them to Google Maps on your behalf.

Broadly speaking, tours are less expensive for small properties and more expensive for larger properties. Matterport 3D scans are priced specifically by the sq/ft of your property and have add-on charges for additional features and annual hosting.

Our bespoke high-quality tours are competitively priced, and we are happy to provide quotations on request. It may cost less than you think! Tell us about your project, and we will be happy to help. Typically our tours start around £450, and we are happy to price-match tours that approach our quality and list of included features.

Typically, shooting each virtual tour image would take a few minutes. A complete virtual tour comprises one or more virtual tour images, so the larger the property, the more shots are required and the longer it will take. We don’t take shortcuts or compromise on quality, so we keep shooting until we are completely satisfied and have the best shot possible. Some shots will take longer, depending on the lighting conditions on the day. A typical-sized 3-bedroom home may take 30-90 minutes to shoot, but a university campus may be shot over several days.

Once the virtual tour photographs have been captured, it will take a day or two to build smaller tours, and it can take a week or more for larger tours. If a tour is required more quickly than normal we are happy to try to accommodate your specific deadlines.

Your tour can seamlessly include our aerial 360-degree virtual tour images, shot at an altitude of up to 400 feet. Drone 360-degree images add real visual impact to a virtual tour and can offer a unique perspective on your property or venue. An example of this can be seen at the leisure destination XSite Braeheaduin Glasgow, UK.

A hotspot is an on-screen icon that you can click to reveal information about the space or object in view. A hotspot, for example, can display plain text, show a picture, link to a website, play a video, play audio, or combinations of these. Our tours can contain an unlimited number of hotspots, and they are not charged for. You can also add, remove or edit your own custom hotspots using our virtual tour editor app iViewVR.

Just some of the features you can include are menus of virtually any design, custom brand logos, contact forms, picture gallery slideshows, video, audio, floor plans, navigation arrows, Google Street View, your branding, colours, and fonts, and an unlimited number of hotspots.

We can fix cosmetic issues easily for you – such as discoloured paintwork or removing smaller objects from view. Upon request, we can undertake larger image edits, such as removing vehicles or people.

Here are some excellent reasons you need a tour: Website visitors now expect to see them. More likely than ever, your competitors will have one or be considering getting one. Static photographs – no matter how good they are, they do not convey the feeling of actually being there. Looking around, interacting with, and engaging with potential customers is important these days. You do not get this from photographs or videos. Websites with virtual tours keep visitors on your site for longer. You have invested time and money in your business and are passionate about it. Virtual tours are the best way to promote your business, your venue, and your property online, without a doubt.

Yes, you can have people visible in a virtual tour, although their permission may be required in certain circumstances. Google virtual tours will blur faces; we can manually blur faces if necessary. We can advise you as required regarding your particular venue or circumstances.

There are several ways to embed your virtual tour on your website, and we will advise you or your web developer which method best suits your particular website.

We have a long track record of producing high-quality, feature-rich, value-for-money virtual tours that deliver real results. Our portfolio shows just some of the tours we have produced since 2005. Our tours are custom-built to your exact requirements—a truly bespoke solution for you and your business. We can supply Google Street View tours and upload them directly to your Google business pages, and we can also provide Matterport 3D scans if you feel you need one.

When deciding who to choose a company, look at how long they have been shooting 360 tours, check the quality of their examples tours, have they created tours for a wide range of business types,

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