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360 Virtual Tours

Here at V.J. Art&Design Studio we offer our customers 360 Panoramic Virtual Tours for Real Estate, Hotel Business, Trade Shows and other purposes.

Depending on the customer's specific needs the final result of our work can be output in variety of formats: either as simple high-resolution panoramic image(s) or as Flash / Java / QuickTime web-application or else as standalone CD application. This can be a single Virtual Tour or a complex system of multiple panoramas linked to each other and controlled by a custom-made Graphical User Interface (Java or Flash). We also offer CD-presentations and complete web solutions with panoramic content.

Here is a sample of a very simple Virtual Tour with a basic operation GUI made by us in Flash:

.. and here is another sample of a bit more advanced Virtual Tour with a custom made GUI made in Java. When the panorama is loaded right-click anywhere within the viewer screen to access the GUI (as shown on the picture above):

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Basic 360 Terminology

FoV stands for ''Field Of View''. This parameter basically indicates how much a panorama can be zoomed in and out.FoV will have maximum and minimum limits. It is often important to set the limits correctly as the panoramic image looks distorted when viewed at extreme FoV.

Tilt is the vertical angle of the viewer relative to the center of panorama. This parameter can also be set to have two limits: top and bottom. If I want to cover the top part of the panorama, a sealing for instance, I will set the top limit to lower than 90'.

Pan is the horizontal angle of the viewer relative to the center of panorama. This parameter can also be set to have two limits: right and left. It works very similar to the Tilt parameter except this one controls panorama''s horizontal movements whereas the tilt controls vertical movements of the panorama.

GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. This usually is represented as a system of buttons and other such elements by pressing which the viewer can control the panorama. Common features that can be controlled by GUI include: zooming in & out, going full screen mode and back to frame, jumping between different viewers, playing embedded sounds, movies, images, etc. GUI can be quite complex. It's design should also nicely suit the overall design of the web-page the panorama is played on.

Hot Spot is a small mark that appears inside the panorama. It usually has a shape of an arrow that points out in the direction where the next viewer is located. Left-click on the hot spot switches the viewer to the next one. The 1st sample virtual tour has got only one viewer (individual panorama). So, it does not need any hot spots. However, the 2nd one has got two viewers that are connected with each other with the hot spots in the form of small reddish arrows.