360° interactive virtual tours offer an extremely unique and engaging way to present your spaces, buildings, and objects while educating your audience. The virtual tours are just that, they allow viewers to tour through and experience a space via a digital or "virtual" medium. Integrated with educational content, they can be an effective tool for marketing campaigns, educational programs, research, and direct sales.

Applications & Uses
Delivery Systems
The Process
Educational Virtual Tours
Project Examples

Applications & Uses:
Interactive virtual tours are ideal for a variety of applications in areas such as:

The Process:
The virtual tours start with high resolution digital images of your space. The images are analyzed and processed resulting in 2D panoramic images and/or QuicktimeVR digital movies. We shot in high resolution mode typically capturing about 18 images per panorama. These are then stitched together, photo enhanced, and adjusted for perfect clarity, color correctness, and overall quality. Once converted to a digital movie, these can then be played back and interacted with as is, packaged for web delivery, and/or integrated into a customized standalone multimedia program.

Educational Virtual Tours:
One of the best uses of virtual tours is for educational purposes. With our experience and technologies, we have the ability to effectively integrate educational exercises and content directly into the QuicktimeVR panoramas. For CDROM applications we use Macromedia Director to integrate educational content with the interactivity of the QuicktimeVR panormas. These are then delivered through a standalone multimedia program that is Mac/PC compatible. For web applications, we use a combination of Flash and javascript technologies to integrate content with the QuicktimeVR or IBM Hotmedia format.

Project Examples:

High-Bandwidth Internet Connection Recommended QuickTime 4.0 Required
In order to view the QuicktimeVR movies, you will need to have Quicktime4.0 installed on your computer. You can download the free player by clicking on the icon to the upper right.

360 Degrees of Yellowstone From start to finish, the Four Chambers Studio Crew developed an amazing interactive CD-ROM featuring over 100 360 degree panoramas of Yellowstone National Park in an interactive format. To learn more about the project, order CD's, and/or view examples visit the website listed below.

Online Interactive Demo 360 Degrees of Yellowstone Website

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Merrill Center For the Merrill Center website, a series of Virtual Tours were created to help users learn about the innovative environmentally responsive features of this new facility. Each mini tour features interactive hotspots that allow users to learn more about each of the features of the building. Cheasapeake Bay Foundation's Merrill Center Website You can view visit the Merrill Center Website or click on one of the examples below: