Google Virtual Tour Equipment, Quality and the Photography Process

We Don’t Use Consumer Level 360° Cameras There are a lot of consumer level single shot 360° cameras now available. We don’t use them. Single shot 360° cameras like the Ricoh Theta series, the Insta360 One X, the GoPro Fusion and many others have their place. They are useful if you need to capture the entire 360° scene simultaneously or …

What Happens After Your Google Street View Photoshoot?

After the 360° Photoshoot, We Edit & Build Your Virtual Tour During the photoshoot we are capturing raw visual information. We then stitch the photos files together into the 360° photo format and then edit the photos to ensure they look best. Once edited, we connect the individual 360° photos into a navigable tour of your business. This is the …

What is Google Street View for businesses? Do I want a virtual tour of my business?

What is Google Street View for businesses? Google Street View for businesses is a virtual tour inside your business hosted on the Google Maps platform. It can be found and accessed through both Google Search and Google Maps. When we create Google Street View virtual tours inside businesses we use professional quality equipment to create high resolution, high quality, immersive, …

How to Prepare for your Google Street View Business Photoshoot

Key Preparation Steps Clean and tidy Free of clutter Present your business as you want people to see it Switch all lights on Turn television screens off, or pause screens on a good image (if possible) Should You Feature People? We commonly get asked if people should be present in your tour. We can photograph with or without people present. …

I See Orca Again With My Drone

Today I went out with my drone to capture more aerial 360° photos for my Hibiscus Coast Virtual Tour. My plan was to photograph Big Manly and Stanmore Bay (both on the northern side of Whangaparaoa peninsula). But as I was driving past Matakatia Bay (on the southern side) I decided to go and take a 360° photo there – …