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A virtual 360 degree tour works by taking many photographs which overlap. They are then placed together to create a seemless image. This is very easy to do when talking about it but much harder to do in real life and pull it off well. You could try and hold the camera yourself and then try and take the pictures as you revolved round the room but the images would not come out right with the correct overlap or even line up. It would be near impossible to stitch the final image together. Professional photographers will instead mount the camera on a tripod which is controlled by a computer to take the photos and pan and tilt the camera as it takes the images. This makes joining the images quick and as the overlaps are uniform, they are correct- making a flawless virtual tour.
The images that are captured will be of extremely high quality and typically better than HD. Once captured your high quality images are then joined to form a highly detailed single image. Your customer is then amazed at the quality of your venue. The current technology that displays virtual tours is excellent and gives you massive detail but is still not able to fully show off the image. Thus when the technology is available you won't have to recapture.
The method above is not the only way to go about capturing images. It is however the method that will get you the best quality. Certain companies will capture the images with a single lens system. This system is perfect for an estate agent who just wants a simple image. These lenses will bounce the light round a 360 degree area, thus allowing the camera to capture 360 degrees in one shot. As you are capturing the image in one go you won't obtain a high quality HD image. Not only that but you will not have the ability to pan up and down, just left and right. This is why they are good for estate agents who just need to get the image and then get onto the next client. If you are paying big money then you should not settle for anything less than the best when it comes to your virtual tour. This will be noticeable by your sites visitors.
People think that they are going to struggle to host their virtual tour. It is not though, as you will find that the company who made the tour will host it for you. Or they may help you host it on the same server that your website is already hosted on. Either way it is a lot less hassle and stress than many people think. The virtual tour company will normally talk directly with your web designer leaving you just to find the right place on the website if you have not found it already.
Once the virtual tour is on your website, you can just sit back and let your customers love it. Companies will make different features available to your guests to use. This includes things like hotspots where a little pin is on the image and shows extra information when hovered over. This allows people to do extra reading on something before being led to a full article.
The images that are captured will be of extremely high quality and typically better than HD. Once captured your high quality images are then joined to form a highly detailed single image. Your customer is then amazed at the quality of your venue. The current technology that displays virtual tours is excellent and gives you massive detail but is still not able to fully show off the image. Thus when the technology is available you won't have to recapture.
The method above is not the only way to go about capturing images. It is however the method that will get you the best quality. Certain companies will capture the images with a single lens system. This system is perfect for an estate agent who just wants a simple image. These lenses will bounce the light round a 360 degree area, thus allowing the camera to capture 360 degrees in one shot. As you are capturing the image in one go you won't obtain a high quality HD image. Not only that but you will not have the ability to pan up and down, just left and right. This is why they are good for estate agents who just need to get the image and then get onto the next client. If you are paying big money then you should not settle for anything less than the best when it comes to your virtual tour. This will be noticeable by your sites visitors.
People think that they are going to struggle to host their virtual tour. It is not though, as you will find that the company who made the tour will host it for you. Or they may help you host it on the same server that your website is already hosted on. Either way it is a lot less hassle and stress than many people think. The virtual tour company will normally talk directly with your web designer leaving you just to find the right place on the website if you have not found it already.
Once the virtual tour is on your website, you can just sit back and let your customers love it. Companies will make different features available to your guests to use. This includes things like hotspots where a little pin is on the image and shows extra information when hovered over. This allows people to do extra reading on something before being led to a full article.
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For 360 virtual tours options visit Spherical Images. Spherical Images specialise in virtual tours of schools.
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