We were pleased to be able to work with Global Stories on this project for charity organisation School home support. It is a virtual tour with a clear but sad narrative, and features chroma key video, video hotspots, picture gallery, text information, and Facebook embedding. We also helped out with additional cinematography.
Click this link to view the virtual tour
We are pleased to release a mobile version of our most popular tour – The London Aerial virtual tour has had over 125,000 hits, and can now be accessed on the Iphone and Ipad, as well as Android, and on all major desktop browsers. Making it compatible with any internet viewing device 
Just visit the London Aerial Virtual Tour page. Whatever device is being used will be detected, and will trigger an optimized tour for that device. E.g Iphone screens are only small, so we need only display small panoramas etc. this ensures great loading speed and the tour can be accessed in seconds.
The innovative touch navigation of mobile devices including Ipad, make viewing virtual tours great fun. Just use your fingers to move left and right and pinch to zoom in and out.
Here are some screen shots of the London aerial virtual tour mobile tour.
Portrait orientation.
Landscape orientation.
Here is an amazing (WORLD RECORD) spherical 80 gigapixel panorama of London shot by friend and 360 Cities founder Jeffrey Martin.
Click here to view the World Record 80 Gigapixel London Panorama
A few months ago Jeffrey came to stay for a week, and I was delighted to spend 3/4 days assisting him at the top of center point. It was magical to say the least, you feel like you have the whole of London at your toes, and it must be one of the best views of London, and real experience at all times of day.
Jeffrey’s incredible image comprised of 7886 high-resolution individual photos, was shot with a 400mm lens, and is 360 degrees wide. What makes this image all the more remarkable was the camera was not panning around the nodal point, which reduces bad stitching and parallax. It was shot from every corner of the building. Also stitching a panorama like this requires requires and enormous amount of computer power, a computer donated by Fujitsu comprised of dual 6-core CPUs, 192GB of RAM, and a 4GB graphics card, took six weeks to stitch !
Here are some nice images I took.
More info and pics to come later
Here is today’s press from the London paper ‘Metro’.
Here are some panoramas I took during the shoot.
Jeffrey Martin On Center Point During 80 Gigapixel Panorama Shoot in London
Corner of Center Point – Jeffrey Martin’s London 80 Gigapixel Panorama in London
Between Center and Point – Jeffrey Martin 80 Gigiapixel London Shoot in London
Jeffrey Martin and Tom Mills watching sunset at Center Point in London
This is great news for 360 Cities and Google Earth fans alike. Now it is much easier to view panoramas from 360 Cities photographers on Google Earth as they now appear on the default ‘Photos’ layer. Previously this was an honor only afforded to ‘Panoramio’ an online photo sharing site. I am delighted that 360 Cities share this layer, and panoramas can be accessed simply by clicking the red squares where you find them.
Here are some screenshots to help you on your way.
VR Web Design Iphone/Ipad and Android tours received a great update today, and it is now possible to create multi scene virtual tours, where before we were limited to just 1 panorama per page. Now you can navigate your way through panoramas using hotspots exactly like a full browser virtual tour.
Click the images below to see how cool it works on your mobile device.
If you are a company whose services would benefit from any of our resources we would be happy to put them at your disposal for the benefit of your clientele.
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