Interactive Tours versus Google Street View

While Google Street View provides impressive virtual tours for users searching on Google Maps, there are times when a bit more personalization is required.

For example, you might wish to emphasize a specific area of your store or business. You may also want to share details or facts about your business or residence. These aspects are seen as limitations of Google Street View.

In contrast, an Interactive 3D Virtual Tour opens up a world of possibilities. Interactive 3D Tours, or ‘I3DT,’ are customized virtual tours that can narrate a story. They are not only informative but also come with excellent features that make it simple to navigate through your business or home with just a click or tap.

Enhance Your Informative Approach

By utilizing interactive 3D Virtual tours, you have the opportunity to provide a narrative for individuals to use and browse, prior to embarking on the tour. This feature is not available with Google Street View virtual tours because we can’t control the way that Google Street View shoes the information on Google Maps.

Incorporate Your Logo and Branding

We can integrate your logo into your virtual tour and position it at the top left corner, ensuring that your logo remains consistently visible. Additionally, we have the capability to place your logo in various other sections of your virtual tour.

Incorporate Your Own and Personal Audio

Your virtual tour has the potential to feature audio clips at various points during the experience. It’s like visiting a museum where you are provided with headphones to gain deeper understanding. The possibilities with personal audio are endless and can give a very personal touch to your interactive virtual tour. Of course, you can also add a nice music background to the virtual tour. The user has the ability to switch the audio ON and OFF.

Virtual Hot-Spots

By incorporating an animated bullseye onto any section of your tour, you can direct the viewers’ focus to a particular element. When they click or tap on the bullseye, a customizable pop-up window will appear. We also call this a Interactive “Walkthrough” Virtual Tour. The Hot-Spots can be customized to adapt to your personal needs. Customized Hot-Spots can give a virtual tour a totally different feeling.

See the Interactive 360 virtual tour below that we have created for a Coffee Shop and Loft Apartments in Santa Fe, Bantayan Island.

Incorporate YouTube Videos

Include YouTube or Vimeo videos of your choice. This is particularly beneficial for businesses that possess commercial materials or similar content and wish to showcase it to their audience.

Include Images and Image Collections (Galleries)

At times, the virtual tour may not provide sufficient information; in such cases, still images or photographs may be required. This is not an issue. We can add photos in any part of the virtual tour. For example: If you have a window showing a beautiful outside panorama, you can add a photo with or without a text block of text bubble with a text like: BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THE OCAEAN AND MOUNTAIN, etc.

Mobile-Friendly Virtual Tours

Interactive virtual tours are designed to be compatible with mobile devices and tablets. You can rest assured that the virtual tour experience will be excellent, regardless of the device your client utilizes.

Prior to contemplating an interactive virtual tour with Google Street View, there are several important factors you should be aware of.

As Google does not support directly virtual tours that are created indoors, there are additional steps and expenses that are not associated with the service. Our virtual tours can be incorporated in Google Maps (Google Street View) but it requires additional work from us. However, there is no need for concern; it is truly not a significant issue.

Note: It is not mandatory for our customers to publish a virtual tour to Google Maps (Google Street View). It is completely optional. We suggest you to publish your virtual tour to Google Maps (Google Street View), because it gives your establishment a greater visibility.

To recap – There are two types of 360 Degrees virtual tours:

1. The standard 360 Degrees virtual tour, without Google Maps and Google Street View.
2. The 360 Degrees virtual tour with Google Maps and Google Street View.

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