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Virtual tours are interactive online 360° panoramic images that simulate a location. They represent a real location in virtual reality. They are not video that limit what a viewer can see, but are 360° panoramic based and virtual tours are interactive. You can usually see several areas of a building or a venue, which can give you a good idea about a place without visiting in person.

All sectors and industries can utilise Virtual Tour technologies: We cover almost everything including the Healthcare Sector, Retail Sector, Architecture, Construction, Travel & Tourism, Education and the Events Sector

Our Virtual tours use a high definition 360° panoramic walk-through v’s doll house effect that creates the 3D visual in the MatterPort tours. We can deliver MatterPort tours on request.

This is a very easy process, with the addition of a line of code to your website. Using the tours on your marketing and social media is done via a link. We can offer hosting and linking services on request.

Google StreetView Virtual Tours are used by Google maps and linked to their Google My Business listing.  When a user searches your business they are able to walk-through the inside of your business.  Business that use this feature see and improved organic SEO and ranking in search results. 

To give your business a new avenue of advertising and marketing. Furthermore, there’s some serious benefit behind the use of visual content helping customers in their decisions. We know that humans process images 60,000 times faster than text. Search users’ eyes aren’t drawn toward your hours of operation, they’re immediately pulled toward the provided pictures. The addition of a virtual tour allows you to establish the trust and credibility that’s crucial for converting web searchers into actual customers.

Google Street View is a technology in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides 360° interactive panoramic images from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide as well as interiors of businesses.

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 right side of the page. We provide services in helping businesses with My Business listings and support including assistance with tours and photography.

A trusted Google Trusted Photographer will create and publish your virtual tour. For the layman, it is a fairly complicated process. For the Google Trusted Photographer, 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 (HD) 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 and upload based on the geographic location of your business. When completed the viewer can do a walk through of your property and look around as they please.

We will take the strain out of this and configure this up for you, as well as help you add your services and business details. We provide a subscription service, or a one time setup system to accomplish this.

A Google Trusted Photographer is someone who has demonstrated to Google their proficiency in producing 360° interactive panoramas by having at least 50 Google approved 360° Panoramas uploaded to Google Street View.

Virtual Tours improve your Search Engine Optimisation.  It will give your Google Business listing more exposure and detail. Tours appear on Google Search results, Google+ Local, and Google Maps, enticing searchers to look further at your listing. They will also differentiate you from your competition providing you better visiblity from Google.

They have the right – Yes.  If any photo does not meet Google’s standard and violates Google Map Street View policy they will be removed. We pride ourselves to ensure this does not happen with content we upload.