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Virtual Tours |
The term "Virtual tour" has come to represent a lot of things. Sometimes it is a used to describe
a bunch of normal pictures put together to form a slide show. Sometimes a virtual tour is an image that covers a swath of the world
and allows you to look around in a circle, or sometimes only part of a circle.
Sometimes they cover most of reality, except for the photographer's, or tour software maker's logo which is skillfully
covering up where the tripod was sitting. Most of the time, virtual tours do not come close to the resolution and color
image quality of their still image counterparts.
To me, a virtual tour should be crisp and colorful and detailed, just like a still photograph, but it should provide
the user a full 360 degree experience and allow them to explore the environment as if they were actually there.
That is what I strive to provide. The technique and equipment that I use is certainly not the easiest way to
do a virtual tour. The way I do it, each 360 is made up of a minimum of 10 shots, which are stitched together into the final product.
There are products out there that will let you do a tour with one shot, which would be
a lot less work, both to shoot and process, but they always disappoint me with their final
quality. After researching a bunch of options, I believe the technique that I am using will
provides the highest quality available.
Click on the following and decide for yourself:
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