Virtual Tours
High Quality Interactive Virtual Tours and Photography for Touch Screens and the Web
Virtual Tours Online
If you are having to close your doors, you might have been thinking about putting an interactive virtual tour on your web site.
We have produced a lot of those over the years as many customers have them on their InfoAktiv systems. The same tours can be ‘remastered’ to go on your website. Please contact us if you would like a web version of a tour we have already created or would like a new one creating.
If we don’t have up-to-date photographs of your venue we might be able to come out to take new ones. If traveling to you is not sensible, we can send you a special camera and instructions so that you can take the pictures yourself. These can be surprisingly quick and easy to do. You can then send the pictures to us and we will use them to create an interactive virtual tour for you.
We have extensive experience of producing virtual tours and our reputation is such that we have been commissioned by ‘rival’ companies to do higher-quality photography for them than is possible with the typical Google Earth or Matterport approach. We also offer 360° photography of items & artefacts. Enabling you to present objects that are not currently on display or are too sensitive to handle.
Army Flying Museum - Lynx Cockpit
The Army Flying Museum near Andover in Hampshire (UK) has one of the world’s best collections of helicopters and historic army aircraft. Throughout the museum, they have TouchScreen systems that provide multimedia information about the aircraft on display.
Like other museums, they can’t allow visitors to climb into most of the exhibits, to protect both the visitors and the exhibits themselves. To provide the next best thing, we worked with the Army Flying Museum to create virtual tours giving ‘pilot’s eye’ views of the cockpits of almost every aircraft in the museum. These have proved to be a big hit on the touch screens around the museum.
Fusiliers Museum Of Northumberland
Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland
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Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland Website
This museum is located in a tower in Alnwick Castle and the only access to the upper floors is by spiral staircases designed with repelling invaders in mind. Not helpful for accessibility!
On the ground floor the museum has installed an InfoAktiv TouchScreen system showing a breadth and depth of information about the museum, its collections, the regiment and the community it drew soldiers and families from.
The wealth of information includes videos, documents, images, and an interactive virtual tour. Within this tour, the visitor can move from floor to floor and select highlighted objects for a closer look. When the user selects an object an interactive 360 degree view of it pops up. The user can turn it under their fingertips to view it from all angles. This 360 degree object photography is actually quite easy to do and we have trained several customers to do it to digitise entire collections and display them on their InfoAktiv systems.
Royal Victoria Country Park - Chapel Tower
The chapel at the Royal Victoria Country Park in Southampton is the last remaining piece of the spectacular Royal Victoria Military Hospital that was operational there from 1863 until 1958. The chapel’s most prominent feature is its 150 foot high tower. The gallery at the top is fascinating and offers spectacular views across Southampton Water. Unfortunately the only way up is via a very long staircase.
While we were handing over the chapel’s InfoAktiv systems we produced a very easy-to-use 360 degree view of the tower and the bells in it. This is serving the less energetic or less mobile visitors well, allowing them to see what is at the top of the tower.
Bursledon Windmill
When Bursledon Windmill was refurbished, the management were mindful of the access limitations and wanted a virtual tour created for disabled access.
We were asked to produce a virtual tour of all floors of the mill and the views outside. We created an interactive virtual tour which enabled visitors to look at specific items in the mill and see how the mill worked.
The aesthetics of the mill were considered and the touchscreen was housed in an enclosure that looks like a grain bin on the ground floor. The lid can be closed when the windmill needs to look authentic, or opened to reveal the screen when it’s wanted for a visitor who can’t climb the steep stairs or by staff to explain how the mill works.
It has proved particularly useful for explaining the workings to school parties and other groups. Bursledon chose an InfoAktiv system because they wanted to be able to vary the content rather than compelling disabled visitors to see the same thing on every visit. Using InfoAktiv gives them the ability to use the touch screen interactive to do infinitely more than just showing the virtual tour.
Lacock Abbey
Lacock Abbey, a National Trust property was founded in the 13th century. It is a quirky country house of various architectural styles within its own woodland grounds, which also houses the Fox Talbot Museum.
Because of the nature of the building and lack of access, The Trust wanted a virtual tour showing all of the main features of the abbey. This tour features navigation from room to room, guiding the user on a route around the house.
Key features are highlighted with pop-up hot spots to reveal more information. To provide orientation the user’s progress is charted on a plan of the house.