How to create 360º virtual tour for architecture projects in 3 minutes

360º Virtual Tour

Los usuarios que habitualmente nos siguen, saben que nos gusta mucho jugar con las diferentes aplicaciones que nos proporciona Internet gratuitamente para nuestros trabajos y proyectos de arquitectura, inmobiliarias o lo que sea. Si sabes buscar, puedes encontrar verdaderas joyas con utilidades muy buenas.

This time, we want to present how to make a free 360º virtual tour and in an easy way, and that will of course not serve to show our architecture projects, for presentations with tours, for a house we want to sell in the real estate, to showTo our students explanations of an ongoing project, etc..Actually, the top is the imagination!

The idea of creating a 360º tour is basically;Through an image that we have taken in 360 degrees, we upload it to the free Google Tour Creator application, and then add information about that image (images, text, audios) and then publish and share it, be it social networks or wherever we want.

Remember, we have an article with the best augmented reality applications for both architecture and decoration.

How to create a 360 virtual tour

To have a global vision of the procedure that we must follow, we have created a scheme to understand how we are going to proceed in the realization of a virtual tour.In this case, we have two options: we do not have an image of 306º and if we have a 360º image.

Better!Follow the following scheme to create virtual tours ...

1.- Necesitamos una imagen 360º

The reasoned, we want to make a virtual tour for a real estate, about a project that we have already executed, a virtual tour of the interior of a house, of a work that we are building and we need to explain for some reason some details, etc..So we will need a 360 degree image!

In most mobile phones, in the photographs section, they already have the option of "panoramic" to capture the image:

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In addition, if you have a 360 -degree super chamber, then perfect, but for the deadliest, if we want to improve photography we have different panoramic photography apps for smartphones (Android and iOS) that we will get the image and quickly and quickly.

The photography apps that work well are:

Once the image is downloaded on the computer or on Google Drive, we have to go to the application to produce virtual tours ...

2.- Google Tour Creator

Now, it's time to enter the application called Google Tour Creator from here (remember first to be logged with Google+, so you don't ask for a thousand passwords).

Once we enter we have two possibilities;Start from the "Certo" with the "New Tour" and upload our 360º image or choose to use a template that, ultimately, is an already created tour that we can edit for a 3D view.

As we see in the previous image, creating a free 360 virtual visit in basic mode is quite easy, it is just to upload a large panoramic format.Now, it's time to edit it to adapt it to our needs.

3.- Editar nuestro Tour Virtual

When we have already edited the title, the description, category and upload a cover image (see previous image) that are the general data of the project.We have to opt for:

Then, we are going to edit the ambient scene (360º image that we have uploaded to the app) with all its characteristics and points of interest: scene name, location, description, credits, sound and music if we want, and points of interest where we will have moreinformation to show customers in the free virtual tour that we have.

We can add and add all the individual scenes that we want to create the route, having a kind of slider, but in 360º.Then, we just have to publish and share it where we want.

An example of how it would be in an industrial ship under construction:

The project can be seen better from here and you can also see other proposals.But, for a greater understanding of how to create a panoramic tour, we leave the following video (at the beginning it enrolls a little, but it is the best video that we have seen in Spanish, if not, the only one)

Another of the interesting options of the application is that we can also upload 3D objects that we have previously made with a 3D and CAD drawing program.And so, later to be able to show the work in an easy and practical way with 3D movements:

It seemed to us a tool for easy to use panoramic photography and with multiple applications that can give us extra value when showing a work that we are doing, an architecture project, an area where we are going to build a building, a house thatWe want to sell, etc..

Remember that, to create a project it is on Google Tour Creator from here and to be able to see those that already exist, you can access from here.

And if you liked this type of technology, you can also see an article on how to see interactive 3D maps of any city in the world.Crazy!

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