The Perfect Way to Promote a School........

What better way to promote a school to attract fee-paying parents in the private sector than an online prospectus with a fully interactive 360imagery virtual tour?

360imagery virtual tour of Thomas Cowley School in Lincolnshire

 

Thomas Cowley High School in Lincolnshire wanted a bespoke virtual tour to promote what they have to offer to potential students and parents. The benefits of an online prospectus with a 360imagery virtual tour are clear - not only does it show off the location and all the facilities at their very best, but it is accessible 24 hours a day, every day, all over the world (i.e. great for attracting International students too). 

As all 360imagery virtual tours are bespoke designed, there is nothing 'off the shelf' about our end result - it is a really interactive marketing medium that appeals to audiences of all ages. Check it out for yourself by either clicking here, or on the post image above.

360imagery have worked with a number of Schools, Universities and Academies over the years (click here to see Universities & Schools page of our website), and so we were really chuffed to win the competitive tender for Thomas Cowley. It also means we have the experience and ideas to help the project along, and create a really effective end result. As we do all of our work in-house and bespoke design every element of the tour, it means we can make it be as interactive as the client wants - to include maps, aerial work, pop-up boxes with text or still photography, music, links to websites etc - we like the challenge of being asked to do something a bit different!

We begin our virtual tour with one of two stunning external mast shots. This is a unique system that we designed in-house, capable of capturing high-resolution panoramas from up to 8 metres. It is perfect for photographing (and taking the viewers eye) above crowds, street furniture and parked cars - it's great for the opening WOW scene to a tour. It engages the viewer and encourages them to interact with the tour.

The remaining high-resolution panoramas are shot in occupied classrooms and around the school during a normal school day to show what the school has to offer, and to really give a feel to the place. The viewer is navigated using an aerial site plan, thumbnails and interactive hot spot markers. The tour is then finished off with a bespoke Graphic User Interface (GUI) designed around the logo and colour sway of the school. See for yourself how well the 360imagery tour fits and works within their existing Home Page on their website by clicking here.

As with all of our work, it is published in HTML5 so is mobile-responsive and cross-platform compliant, working on desktop, Android and iOS devices.

In 10 years of creating commissioned virtual tours we have built up a wealth of experience and ideas to help you with your own project. Just check out our Portfolio Page on our website to see some of the variety of work we have undertaken, or give us a call on 0845 8726442 and we can point you to specific examples of our work that may relate to your own project.

 

360imagery are one of the leading virtual tour providers in the UK. We'd love to hear from you and chat about thoughts you may have for your own project, however big or small. Just give Stuart a call on the number above, or visit us at www.360imagery.co.uk

Stunning 360imagery Virtual Tour of Chiswick Park, London

360imagery virtual tour of Chiswick Park, London

A 360imagery virtual tour can have many different applications. It can be used to market any given location or venue, commercial or residential developments, as educational tools or to help promote a product such as a car.....and the list goes on. Here, our tour is being used to promote the facilities and lifestyle opportunities within a business park, such as cafes, shops, restaurants, gym etc. It is aimed at both the business occupiers as well as the employees that work there.

To view the tour of Chiswick Park in London (a development designed in the late 1990's by Richard Rogers Partnership), either click here or on the post image above.

360imagery were commissioned by the on site management team, "Enjoy Work" (www.enjoy-work.com), after we met at a recent exhibition. They were very impressed by both the quality and the interactivity that a 360imagery panoramic virtual tour can offer, both for external and internal scenes. For example, externally we use pop up boxes to link to local transport networks, info about other business premises on the Chiswick High Road etc and other useful information. Internally, text annotations throughout the tour provide useful information about the various offerings available - with the ability of seeing cafe/restaurant opening times, links to each website, menu download, etc.

With 11 scenes in total, we begin our tour with a stunning 'WOW' opening external scene, shot using our unique mast system from 8 metres high. All 8 of the external shots use this technique which we developed in-house to capture high resolution panoramas from this height. It is perfect for photographing above crowds, street furniture and parked cars etc, and gives a real impact to the opening scene. It really engages the viewer to want to explore more.

The viewer is navigated using arrows, thumbnails and an aerial site plan with interactive hot spot markers.

The virtual tour is finished off with a bespoke Graphic User Interface (GUI) designed around the development corporate identity, logo and colour sway. It blends perfectly into their existing website.

As with all of our work, it is published in HTML5 so is fully mobile-responsive and cross-platform compliant, working on desktop, Android and iOS.

In 10 years of creating commissioned virtual tours we have built up a wealth of experience and ideas to help you with your own project. Just check out our Portfolio Page on our website to see some of the variety of work we have undertaken, or give us a call on 0845 8726442 and we can point you to specific examples of our work that may relate to your own project.

360imagery are one of the leading virtual tour providers in the UK. We'd love to hear from you and chat about thoughts you may have for your own project, however big or small. Just give Stuart a call on the number above, or visit us at www.360imagery.co.uk

360imagery creating more stunning 360 virtual tours for Crest Nicholson!

360imagery virtual tour of 2 bed apartment in Tileman House, Putney

360imagery have been busy creating more 360 virtual tours for Crest Nicholson. We are proud to say we have been working with Crest Nicholson for many years, as their sole supplier of virtual tours. This particular project took us in June of this year to Tileman House, in Putney.

Crest Nicholson have recognised for a long time the benefits of a 360imagery virtual tour to promote and market their various properties, throughout the UK. Check out the tour for yourself (by clicking here, or on post image above) to see just how effective our tour is at showing off this contemporary collection of stunning 1,2 and 3 bedroom apartments and penthouses.  This particular tour is of a 2 bed apartment within Tileman House, and is one of 4 show apartments we photographed recently.

This stunning 10-scene virtual tour, as with all of our work, is shot in high definition and then bespoke designed around the development logo and colour sways. All of our work is undertaken in-house and we pride ourselves on both the quality of the end-result, and also the interactivity we are able to incorporate into our bespoke tours. It can range from simple floor plans and thumbnails, to very complex pop-up boxes, with still photography, text, brochures, music etc. Basically whatever the client wants! There is nothing 'off the shelf' about a 360imagery virtual tour.

This particular tour is navigated using a floor plan with interactive hot-spot markers, markers within each scene and a text-based pop-up menu of this amazing apartment. As is standard with all of our work, it is published in HTML5 for cross-platform, mobile-responsive viewing.

In 10 years of creating commissioned virtual tours we have built up a wealth of experience and ideas to help you with your own project. Just check out our Portfolio Page on our website to see some of the variety of work we have undertaken, or give us a call on 0845 8726442 and we can point you to specific examples of our work that may relate to your own project.

360imagery are one of the leading virtual tour providers in the UK. We'd love to hear from you and chat about thoughts you may have for your own project, however big or small. Just give Stuart a call on 0845 8726442 or visit us at www.360imagery.co.uk.

Stunning 360imagery Virtual Tour for Anytime Fitness in Taunton

360imagery Virtual Tour of Anytime Fitness, Taunton

Check out one of our latest commissions for Precor by either clicking here, or on the post image above.

360imagery have been working with Precor as sole supplier of 360 virtual tours since 2011. To date, we have produced over 60 tours for Precor, of which 20 are for the Anytime Fitness brand. Other end-users have included Parkwood Community Leisure, easyGym, energie and Universities such as Exeter, Edinburgh, Dundee & Bournemouth throughout England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Why do Precor use virtual tours?

Precor are part of the Amer Sports Company owning other brands such as Wilson, Salomon and Suunto. They design and build premium commercial fitness equipment used by fitness clubs, hotels, spas, and individual exercisers in over 90 countries across the world. 360imagery are regularly commissioned to create stunning, bespoke tours of sites using Precor equipment as a marketing medium to promote and market both the equipment, and also for the club to use as a marketing tool to promote itself to potential new members. 

Why do Precor choose 360imagery to create their virtual tours?
360imagery have been creating 360 virtual tours since 2006. We have a wealth of experience working within various sectors (check out our Portfolio Page to see some of the big names we regularly work with). 

All of our work is bespoke designed, with every element undertaken in-house from initial photography, to graphic design and programming. This means we can incorporate just about anything the client wants (information text boxes, photo stills, music etc) and pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality end result. 360imagery only use high resolution photography and the latest Canon camera equipment. The tour is then designed around the client logos and colour sways to blend seamlessly within their existing website.  A repeat client is a happy client, and speaks volumes - see our Client Page on our website.

The latest 360imagery virtual tour for Precor (view by clicking here, or on image above) comprises 5 scenes, navigated using arrows within the scenes, or thumbnails. Pop-up text/graphic annotation boxes within the scenes give useful information about specific Precor equipment. Web links within these annotations link directly to the technical specification pages on the Precor website. There is nothing 'off the shelf' about a 360imagery virtual tour and the added attention to detail really shows off both the Taunton Anytime Fitness site, and Precor equipment, at their best.

As one of the leading virtual tour providers in the UK, 360imagery have created in the region of 1,000 commissioned 360 virtual tours, and so have a wealth of experience & ideas to help you with your own project. Take a look at our website www.360imagery.co.uk or give Stuart a call on 0845 8726442 if you need a bit of inspiration!

360imagery 'Before and After' virtual tour using UAV drones & a bit of CGI magic!

 360imagery 'Before and After' virtual tour using UAV drones & a bit of CGI magic!

Now for something completely different.........

360imagery were approached by a residential development client who purchased a waste transfer site in beautiful, leafy Ascot in Berkshire. The site was surrounded by beautiful countryside and very expensive, exclusive properties – not the place you’d expect to find a noisy, dirty industrial use…

The client wanted to submit an application for change of use to build 12 very exclusive detached houses – a much better use of the land!

To support the application, and appease the local residents and Planning Officers, 360imagery were commissioned to shoot a high-resolution aerial over the site, from 400 feet, to show just how stunning the local countryside is and just how much impact the site, in its current use, has on the landscape. To take the project a next stage further, we suggested to the client the “WOW” factor of superimposing the proposed exclusive residential development into this aerial 360 environment – something we have an expertise in. Not only did we do this, we also created 2 ground-based, eye-level CGI scenes of the development and incorporated these into the tour….

Check out the amazing end result by either clicking here, or on the post image above. Don't forget to look at both the 'Current' use and then the 'Proposed' use incorporating CGI scenes.

We do not know of any other company currently capable of bringing together high resolution 360-degree panoramas, shot using specialist “heavy-lift” drone UAV machines, and ultra-detailed CGI imagery within those panoramas. All brought together as a bespoke virtual tour……

Here at 360imagery, we are passionate about we do - we have been creating stunning 360 virtual tours for over 8 years now with in excess of 1000 commissions under our belts! We combine our backgrounds as chartered surveyors with a love of photography and all things technical, to really keep ourselves ahead of the game and to make sure our virtual tours are fresh, new and exciting (no boring 'off the shelf' tours). Our volume of repeat clients must speak for itself - just check out our Client Page to see for yourself.

360imagery are one of the leading virtual tour companies in the UK. We'd love to hear from you and chat about thoughts you may have for your own project, however big or small. Just give Stuart a call on 0845 8726442 or visit us at www.360imagery.co.uk.

Make sure your virtual tour runs on all mobile platforms.....

 360imagery virtual tour of Lagan Valley LeisurePlex, Lisburn

Over the years, 360imagery have created many bespoke 360 virtual tours of gyms, leisure centres and health clubs stretching all across the UK. To see the wealth of experience we have in this area just check out our Portfolio Page. This commission took us a little further afield than usual with a flight over to Belfast for the day.

We met Lisburn Council at an exhibition we had attended earlier in the year. They were very familiar with virtual tours as they had only in the past 2 years had some created by a local Belfast-based company. However, they were very disappointed in not only the quality of the work, but also the fact that the tours were only published in Flash. This meant that it wasn't possible to view them on Apple hand-held devices running the iOS platform (we've been publishing in HTML5 for over 5 years, as standard, at no extra cost!).

It's perhaps a little warning - that not all virtual tour providers are the same, both in terms of the quality of the end product (and how & on what devices it will work) but also the cost and value for money. Even adding in our extra expenses of flying to Belfast with our virtual tour photography equipment, we were still less expensive than the local, Belfast company. All of our work is bespoke designed, high resolution to run at full screen and has all the whistles and bells as standard (no hidden costs) - we pride ourselves on the standard of our end product yet remain highly competitive on costs. We get a lot of repeat clients and that speaks volumes - check out our Clients Page to see for yourself.

This virtual tour is one of our standard, bespoke tours - it comprises 9 scenes and is navigated by both thumbnails and arrows, enabling the viewer to take a virtual walk about. The graphic user interface, or GUI, is designed around the client logo and colours, meaning the tour blends seamlessly into the their existing website (check it out here).

This multi-resolution tour shows off this fantastic venue in full screen glory....take a look at our end result for yourself by either clicking here, or on the post image above.

360imagery are one of the leading virtual tour companies in the UK. We'd love to hear from you and chat about thoughts you may have for your own project. Just give Stuart a call on 0845 8726442 or visit us at www.360imagery.co.uk.