Virtual tours are interactive online 360° x 180° panoramic 3D images with a horizontal range of 360 degrees and a virtual view of 180 degrees. They perfectly simulate and represent a real location in virtual reality. They are not video that limit what a viewer can see, but are 360° image that are interactive. They give the viewer a choice in what to look at in the given location in high definition and the freedom to move around the location as they choose. This freedom makes the tour a realistic and an engaging marketing tool.
The actual photo shoot takes at around 1 hour, depending on the size of the property. The virtual tour for real estate will normally be available to embed into a website and to share on Social Media on the following day.
The Google Street Views depend on the time Google takes to link them, and should be online within 1-5 days after uploading.
Every industry uses virtual tours. Real estate companies, hotels and restaurants, retail and even professional services such as dentists, beauticians and health and fitness centers can benefit from having a virtual tour. A 360 tour is also ideal for communities and local councils to highlight their town center, commercial streets and cultural spots.
Studies show that each property promoted through a virtual tour sell 25% faster and at a 10% higher price. Your customer can view the property 24/7 even if you cannot be there and it will save you time in showing property only to interested prospects.
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A Google Street View virtual tour is a series of 360° panoramas linked together to create a walk-through virtual tour. These are hosted on Google maps and linked to your business’s Google Business Profile listing.
When someone finds your business listing on Google Maps, they will be able to take a walk-through tour of the inside of your business.
As a part of Google’s StreetView program, the businesses participating see improved SEO and search results.
When customers search for a business in your area, yours is more likely to be towards the top of Google Search Results.
It is a Google program and Google loves them. It will help your visibility on Google, especially in the Google Local search results. It will also help build trust that lets people experience your location before they arrive which significantly increases the chance that they will make an in-person visit.
The size package needed for a Google virtual tour is based on the size of your facility and the number of separate rooms or isles it has. A Google Street View tour is basically a walking tour, so you can’t walk through walls or solid objects. Each image needs to be in line-of-sight of another image so you can “walk-through.” You can show as much or as little of the business as you’d like.
Our service provides 3D high definition 360° x 180° panoramic view from the most interesting locations in each room and are linked to nearby locations to provide the best walk-through virtual reality of the property. Our tours are simpler to use and allows visitors to move around faster to see what they want to see. There are no slow multiple clicks just to get to the other side of the room which means you can keep the prospects interest and are less likely to lose a potential client to the frustration of having to click too many times to move around the property. Floor plans when added can be interactive to understand the layout of the property and are clean 2 or 3D easy to understand unlike the dollhouse effect. Information points can also be included and the tour can be have the company or individual branding and links to any website or page.
Of course! We provide you with an I-frame link so it’s just a matter of adding this line of code to your website or property page. A simple link is needed to share on social media networks, blogs, and email and wherever else you can think of placing it.
Your customers will spend a longer time on your website and so add SEO and Google Value to your site. Visual content for marketing is a much more effective marketing tool than just words. Retailers can add info links to their products which in turn can be linked to the actual product specifications. The applications and benefits of a 360 tour are endless. The addition of a virtual tour allows you to establish the trust and credibility that’s crucial for converting web searchers into actual customers.
It is surprisingly affordable! It is based on the number of panoramas and the areas you wish to include in the virtual tour. Virtual tours start at only €100 for real estate virtual tours and €200 for Google virtual tours.
It is a onetime fee with no additional charges relating to the virtual tour. Hosting for the first year or until the property is sold or leased is included for custom/real estate tours. An additional year of hosting is only €50.00.
A Google local My Business listing is an online profile that contains your business name, address, phone number, website, photos and other details. They are a free business listings on Google. When someone searches for your business on Google, the results will show your Local Listing on the top side of the page.
We can create one for you.
It is a technically complicated, but straightforward process. It involves taking multiple overlapping photographs at different exposure levels of each scene to create high definition photographs (HDR) using a special panoramic tripod head, as well as special software and applications to merge and enhance the photographs into panoramas.
Once the panoramas are uploaded to Google Maps, we link them together using tools provided. When completed the viewer can walk through your property and look around as they please.
Images on screen are made of colored squares called pixels. The difference is the pixels per inch (ppi) in the image. Both will be around the same total size of 5400 x 2700 pixels. A standard resolution will have a resolution of 72 ppi while a high definition tour will have 300 pixels or more per inch.
It is generally accepted that the ideal screen image resolution is 72 pixels per inch. The only exception is when viewing them on large high definition monitors. They could look a little fuzzy. On mobile devices such as smart phones and tables, as well as most desktop monitors, you cannot tell a difference