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.

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.

From today Camden council’s sheltered housing customers can reap the benefits of choice based lettings in partnership with Home Connections and Camden Council. Sheltered Housing tenants, who may need more care or assistance, now have all the benefits of Choice Based Lettings, allowing them the freedom and opportunity to choose, bid for and view properties themselves.

We have created a number of virtual tours for the schemes which bring the properties direct to them through their web browser saving them time money and energy on wasted visits. We believe this will be a popular and effective service judging by the comments from the user group who road tested the proposals. This will prove to be a great advantage to these particular tenants, who sometimes have mobility issues. We will be showcasing our tours of some of the schemes at the forthcoming Sheltered Housing open day, which you can find out about by clicking here.