Virtual Tours, Ireland

It’s not just the Hotel and Property industry that are using virtual tours effectively. NASA has a high resolution Panoramic Camera (PanCam) mounted on the Mars Exploration Rover which Scientists use to scan the Mars horizon for “landforms that may indicate a past history of water.” Using high resolution panoramic images allows NASA to create detailed maps and highlight landing spots and interesting geological features for further study.

Here’s a ‘Flat’ panoramic of ‘Lyell’ inside the Victoria Crater.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University

This week, we’re announcing our new Video Tour service for Hotels to compliment our photography services. If you’d like to find out more about these services, please contact Derek or Peter for a demo.

We’ve had an increasing number of inquiries from Web Designers as to the availability of our images in Flash formats. Where a web site is being developed in flash, the Quicktime movies were being triggered by a pop-up window using the getURL Action Scriptscript and some javascript within the HEAD of the html file.

That works well and we’ve seen some great results but it also means a little extra code for designers and a pop up window for site visitors. So today we are announcing the development of our 360 degree Virtual Tour images in .SWF format (availability to be confirmed).

Being able to call a .swf 360 from within a flash site will be a valuable time saver for our Web Design clients and a usability improvement too. While there have been various attempts to export 360 images in the flash format, we’ve been disappointed by the quality, distortion and interface restrictions.

Our new .swf files are high quality (as high as .mov files), can have customised navigation (pan and zoom) interfaces and allow the overlay of a semi-transparent png within the interface window (for your logo or 360 location etc).

More information to follow…

Our Virtual Tour for Trinity College has gone live.
You can view the 360 degree photography at www.tcd.ie/virtualtour/

We’ve completed a shoot of a Lear Jet 31A for an Irish Executive Jet Travel company.

We’ve just completed a series of 360 degree photos for the Auralia Cosmetic Centers in Park West, Dublin. The Virtual Tour comprises of photographs of the waiting room, operating theatre and recovery rooms. Thanks to Mark and the gang at Form Design for the opportunity to work on a new industry.

Ballyvara House is a luxury guesthouse only half a mile from the picturesque seaside village of Doolin in County Clare and we had the pleasure of travelling down there a few weeks ago to shoot their Virtual Tour.
The photographs can be found at www.ballyvarahouse.ie

We’ve been running around Co. Wicklow last week to bring you a virtual tour of Avoca Handweavers for their new Web Site which is being designed by Liam from Metronet. Our photographs of Kilmacanogue and Avoca will be published on The360co site next week and will be incorporated into the new Avoca web site.
Due to bad weather on Friday evening, we have to rescedule the shoot of Powerscourt but hope to have that on our site soon.
Thanks to Sam from Avoca for driving Derek around and comissioning the tour.

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