Virtual Tour Design and Photography

 3‑8‑tive 360˚  develop innovative and ground-breaking interactive photographic content that engages potential customers and offers a distinctive, very high class, interactive on-line experience.
We provide a range of interactive photography & design services to improve the appeal of your website, increase customer interest and enquiries, and greatly improve your on-line multi-media publications.

360˚ Panoramas

A 360˚ panoramic image is an interactive cylindrical or spherical photograph. It is displayed on a computer screen as single virtual photograph, however, it is produced from a set of several extremely carefully positioned and shot photographs stitched-together with invisible seams (if done well). The user or view can move around inside this virtual photograph using their mouse or arrow keys. It is virtual in the sense that it does not exist as a tangible or physical object: it can only be seen on a computer screen in a web browser with the use of specialist computer software downloaded from the host website. Please have a look at examples of panoramas.

Virtual Tour Photography

Virtual tours link a series of 360˚ interactive panoramas and offer a truly immersive and engaging experience of moving through or exploring a location online. Our virtual tours are high resolution with the option of full screen viewing. Navigated via hotspots, one can move through and explore a location, any time, anywhere, via the internet. Please click to see examples of virtual tours.
Virtual tours can be integrated with maps or plans with hotspots to aid orientation and navigation. Single or multiple floor levels can be presented. Complex large buildings can be explored through the use of multi-layered plans. Please click to see examples of advanced virtual tours.
There is also the option of an interactive "video tour" - which is an automated walk through of a virtual tour. This is a pre-definable sequence of moving panoramas that explore a building or environment. Thus the viewer can simply watch the sequence like a video, and they can interrupt it at any time to manually explore the scenes (the video tour can be resumed any time).
Completely customisable, our virtual tours can include a variety of other innovative features. The graphic design customisations we can provide - such as graphics, framing, hotspot designs, buttons, inclusion of logos etc - can be made to align seamlessly with your brand identity and ethos.

Please see virtual tour customisations for more details.

Please click on the following image for an example of a virtual tour without a map :-

with a map :-

 
Multi-layered maps or plans are usually provided to help the viewer navigate around a large three-dimensional space. We can provide user-interface elements like maps or plans to select a level or a floor, or to go straight to a particular position. Please click on the following image for an example (note the use of the four tabs for the different levels in the upper right hand corner of the image below) :-