360° virtual tour 

How to create a 360° virtual tour ? Summary...

The most spectacular presentation of a panorama is most certainly the 360° virtual tour. To create it correctly, you'll have to follow a certain number of steps, not necessarily essential, but when they're all followed carefully, the quality and easiness of assembling is here. Unless you choose a 360° camera like the Ricoh Theta SC or the kit Nodalview and your smartphone (who take care of everything) because it is the current Google Streetview trend that makes dream realtors ... without offering them a very good quality, still end of 2018, despite the efforts of manufacturers! Here are all my advices to help you choose ...

A virtual tour, possibly on 360°x180°, is a particular case in panoramic photography by assembling. It is a recent way to show panoramas in an interactive way, hence necessarily online, which participated in the digital revolution of this field of photography, by the way. When you're watching a 360° virtual tour, it is thus possible to interact with the panorama using your mouse by rotating it in all directions, from the floor to the ceiling in some cases, to go from one room to another, to zoom in the image, to read information, to watch videos, etc. Better than a long speech, I invite you to watch the complete virtual tour I made for the famous hotel-restaurant Bernard Loiseau

In all the pages of this tutorial in the The guide to panoramic photography, dedicated to this particular field that is the realization of virtual tours, I'll try to explain you how to proceed and what makes it so singular. As you can guess, it is quite technical when you want to do things right, but it also became a lot easier from 2011 on...