Virtualtours360.net have completed the virtual tour of Alexandra Palace and the surrounding parks and gardens.
You can visit the tour by following this link or by clicking the image above. There’s plenty of information about the history of Alexandra Palace on the wikipedia site
For even more information, you can visit the Alexandra Palace website
Amazing 18 Gigapixel spherical panorama of the beautiful city of Prague – follow this link to view the virtual tour.
Willesden Sports Centre Virtual Tour
The London Borough of Brent recently commissioned us to create virtual tours of 4 sports centres in the borough. By clicking the image above, you can visit the Willesden Sports Centre virtual tour and take a look around the facilites the centre has to offer. All of the virtual tours will be accessible via Brent Council’s website in the not too distant future.
The London Borough of Haringey’s website has come in the top twenty local authority websites in the country, according to a survey of 468 council sites.
The council’s website was judged in the latest survey by the Society of Information Technology Management (SOCITM)
The pages on teaching in Haringey were described as “an example of best practice,” and the virtual tours of Haringey parks also got a special mention with one assessor saying:
“The parks’ 360 degree panoramic virtual tours are very impressive, both in their features and the sheer number of them. This was an altogether clever little feature that would certainly enable you to familiarise yourself with the park’s layout, attractions and facilities. I felt like I had been to visit!”
Visit the See Haringey Parks website that the virtualtours360.net team created for Haringey
George our virtual tours photographer recently acquired an Iphone. We thought it would be fun too see if we could run one of our panoramas on it. if you have an iphone you can take a look for yourself or have a look at the video below.
For City of London West Ham Park, we developed a new ‘hybrid’ virtual tour, combining an Interactive Flash Map, PictureFlow Thumbnails, and JavaScript Lightwindow to diplay fullscreen panoramas.
All in all, 2009 is shaping up to be another busy year for the virtual tours team, we have already been commissioned to create some virtual tours of 4 Sports Centres in London.
Parks are also proving to be a popular destination for our virtual tour photographers as many local authorities see the tours as a great way to highlight a park’s locality and the facilities on offer.
Keep an eye on our blog or subscribe to our RSS feeds to be informed when new virtual tours are completed.
Stratford Eye is a landmark development offering affordable, modern apartments to key workers, see the virtual tour here.
Tower Homes Stratford Eye
To help market and publicise Explorers Court, a new development by Toynbee Housing Association and Barrat East London, we have created a Virtual Tour detailing the completed interiors and the striking exterior of the Virginia Quay apartments. . The tour shows the newly built development, and showcases the stunning views across London’s docklands from the communal roof terrace. Explorers Court is located just east of Canary Wharf, and looks out across the Thames towards Greenwich.
As part of the build up to the 2008 capital of culture, Liverpool City Council have commissioned us to create a number of virtual tours of well known buildings in the city. The link above is to the St Georges Hall tour, why not take a look around this well known neo-classical building in the heart of the city.
Westminster City Council recently commissioned us to create Virtual Tours of a number of their parks as a way of promoting their green spaces and the facilities available within. Along with the Parks we have built tours of Westminster’s sports centres and cemeteries.
Virtualtours360.net have joined the photo sharing social networking site, Flickr. We are currently using the site as a way of showcasing the panoramic photographs that we create to import into our virtual tours. Flickr is an excellent tool for gauging reactions to our work, and to join communities of fellow photographers who are passionate about the places our tours help to promote, and the medium we work in. Be sure to check our gallery regularly, as we will frequently use it to publish exciting new work prior to the release of forthcoming virtual tours. If you’re a Flickr user yourself, then add us to your contact list to see our latest work every time you log in!
To help celebrate the recent official re-opening of Finsbury Park, we are currently creating a virtual tour which will highlight the £5million restorations and improvements, which have been supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Working with Haringey Council, production is underway to create a striking visual tool which will showcase this important and historic London landmark, and the new facilities it has to offer. Come back soon for the launch of this exciting new virtual tour.
The newly launched Kirklees Visitor Portal displays our first example of exporting our Virtual Tours to an indipendant external source. A project of Kirklees Metropolitan Council, the aim of the visitor portal is to allow potential visitors and residents to gather information and view parts of this Yorkshire region. After a rigorous round of user testing, the feedback shows the positive marketing effect that our Virtual Tours have on potential customers. One tester explained that seeing our tour would make her;
“…definately more inclined to go because it makes you more familiar with the area…the more familiar you are with an area before you go, and the more information you have, the better…”
Testers were from a range of social and cultural backgrounds, with varying degrees of web experience and use, providing us with a useful variety of feedback on our tours.
