I am delighted to show our latest virtual tour, made with Google Earth API in a web browser !!! It was a great project to work on as it has many of the traditional features of virtual tour such as image thumbnails to select a panorama and a fullscreen view.
However their is one major difference and that is instead of using Google Maps for navigation we are using Google Earth, which allows users to fly into immersive panoramic spheres. The tour shows some of our panoramas from around London and features a jquery scroll and tab menu.
360 Cities panoramas available on the Iphone !!! Once again 360 Cities show why they are at the cutting edge of panoramic virtual tour technology and thats the reason we are proud to be associated with them, with news of all 50,000 plus panoramas hosted the site are now accessible on the Iphone ! The lack of flash support on Iphones has been well documented, so kind of a problem for FLASH panoramic virtual tours.
Most Iphone tours have been made in standalone apps, but now at 360Cities.net no download is necessary, giving you access to the worlds largest collection of panoramic virtual tours in the Safari web browser, directly from the 360cities web site.
I remember Jeffrey Martin (360 Cities founder) showing me a Java panorama player for my old Sony Ericsson years ago, so its is great to have finally mobile virtual tours to allow quick display of panoramas from around the world whilst on the move.
Here is a selection of links to Tom Mills (VR Web Design) panoramas on 360 Cities. Enjoy !
Although disappointed I could not attend, I was delighted to have a panorama selected for the exhibition, and share wall space with some truly great panoramic photographers.
So here it is a little planet stereographic aerial view over Trafalgar Square, I like it because it shows many of the capitals major landmarks.
I am grateful for these images from Carlos Chegado of the exhibition, you can see more here
As mentioned in a previous post about Iphone virtual tours, we have been sitting on some really exciting news about our association with a wonderful new APP for the Iphone, called TOURWRIST – today it has been released and we are now pleased to be able to now offer your location to be shown in this super way.
Simply do a search for ‘Tourwrist’ in the iphone app store, and you can download and start exploring the world in 360 with this APP for free. We have about 20 virtual tours from London on there already.
Although we have seen this technology before its has always been confined to testing labs and personal projects in living rooms. Tourwrist represents a game changer not only in the way virtual tours can be viewed, but also the ease of its delivery, since who has’nt got a phone nowadays ?
Tour Wrist is currently available for iPhone 3GS, older iPhones, and iPod Touch. Due to the lack of magnetometer (digital compass) in older iPhones and iPods, users of these devices are limited to touchcontrolled touring and may not create tours. Because the Tour Wrist platform has been developed agnostically, future versions are expected for other mobile operating systems such as BlackBerry and Android. Currently, development of an iPad version is underway, with an expected release date of June 1st.
Combining real–time accelerometer and magnetometer data, Tour Wrist precisely tracks each mobile device as the user moves it through space. Simultaneously, the application uses this movement to control loaded virtual tour imagery and displays the corresponding field of view on each mobile device’s screen. So while a user may be sitting inside, their device may reveal a beautiful night sky or turning around can take the user through the full, 360° view from the top of the Eiffel Tower. The experience is tactile and completely immersive, allowing users to intuitively navigate real–world environments remotely.
This application offers users the ability to search for scenic destinations, things to do (like dining or retail), places to stay (like hotels or resorts), real estate, and vehicles. Within each category, they may refine their search by applying contextual filters like square footage, hotel ratings, etc. Adding an additional level of relevance, in the near future users will also be able to post and view news–related tours.
Now you can view the London aerial virtual tour on Google Earth. Simply click the link below to download our KML file which you can then click to open with Google Earth (if you have it .
The panoramas are represented by spheres that you can fly into. This was made possible thanks to Digital Urban (CASA – center of advanced spatial analysis) at University college London, that developed a photo overlay creator for easy display of panoramas on Google Earth. You can read Andy Hudson Smith’s brilliant tutorial of how to create photo overlays on Google Earth here
Many thanks go to Richard Milton at CASA for writing the code and developing this great idea.
a little planet stereographic aerial view over Trafalgar Square, I like it because it shows many of the capitals major landmarks.
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