- [Voiceover] If you're creating panoramic images
as a profession, you're probably going to need
to create virtual tours, say for a home or a hotel.
There's some great services out there to help you.
A service I've used for quite some time
is called VPiX, at vpix360.com.
Now it's all online
and it's very easy to use and quite powerful.
And it is a monthly subscription model.
Here's the homepage
and in this tab is my account homepage.
We'll just remove this warning
and take a quick look.
On the left is just some statistics,
but what's important here is the Create 360 Degree Project.
So we'll create a small virtual tour
of a home with Oakridge as part of the address
is going to be my name.
Step two is just to choose whether
we want to make a HTML5 project
or a Flash project.
And I'm choosing HTML5 all the time, now
just to make it most compatible.
Step three asking if we want it public or not.
Public for sure.
Step four, we'll choose a category.
Today we're doing real estate.
And I want to upload multiple panoramas.
Takes me to the next page where I have
the opportunity to upload quite a few
panoramas in a batch.
And then I can always do more than one batch if needed.
There's good information here on the left
with details about the panoramas
to be uploaded to the service.
Today I'm going to upload four
just to give you an idea of putting together a virtual tour.
We're going to start with Courtyard.
It's a spherical image.
We'll choose the file from our finder.
The next spherical image, I believe
is called Entrance.
I can always choose the file first
and see what name I want to use.
This is the entrance just inside the door.
The next spherical image will be the Living Room.
You can double-click to make it a little bit quicker.
And the last one is the Patio.
Okay, I can scroll down to the bottom here,
and click on Upload All Panos.
We go back above, we can see
a progress icon here spinning,
showing us those are uploading now.
Okay, with all four of my panoramas uploaded,
I can go ahead and click on Finished Uploading.
Okay, this brings us to another set of tools.
Probably most importantly for something like this
is to choose our hotspots for the tour.
So I do that here under Actions.
Then I can Add/Edit hotspots.
Adding a hotspot's really pretty easy.
And defining it was well.
You can double-click and it give us
some of the default artwork for hotspots.
I'll go ahead and use these red arrows.
And in step two, it's asking
what panorama do I want to link to.
And that's the Entrance panorama.
So I come down here and I Save hotspot.
And you'll see that it updates here.
I come down here to step three
and click on Update Pano.
You can move on to the Entrance pano.
And now I wanna link back to the Courtyard
from where I just came.
I'll double-click.
I'll choose the upward arrow.
I want to link to the Courtyard.
And Save hotspot, and so on.
Step three, Update Pano.
Actually, I should have put in two hotspots.
The Entrance, because I have the Entrance
going onto the Living Room, here.
So I'll add a hotspot here.
This time we'll point to the left.
The Living Room.
There we go.
Now we have both of our hotspots needed
for the one panorama.
Moving on to the Living Room.
We'll link back toward the Entrance.
I'm just finding the arrow that points
in the right direction.
So you'll see this becomes pretty quick.
And then the last one I have
is going outside to the patio.
So I'll update that pano
and we'll just, really quickly,
add them on the patio as well
just to complete our very small virtual tour.
This tour was made up of more nodes
but this is how many we're using
just for the demonstration.
Back to the Living Room.
Okay, good.
Now let's look at the next set of options.
We won't go into maps now.
These are really, pretty self-explanatory.
Let's just do some of the quick options, here.
You know Auto-rotation will show the navigation controls.
The Gyroscope allows hand-held devices
to use the gyroscope so that you don't
have to use your finger to swipe.
You just move the device around.
You can have a buttonless tour, if you like to do that.
I like to have the text drop-down
menu available and you'll see
what that looks like in a moment.
We'll choose a logo as well for our client.
That's this logo, here.
And they supplied that to me.
I'll put that in the bottom right.
We could add a link to the website.
We won't take the time to do that now.
Okay, and we'll publish our tour.
And our initial virtual tour
is all ready to go.
All I have to do now is click here.
View my VPiX Tour.
So we're already online
and we can share this right away.
You can see that I have my client's logo
down here in the bottom.
I can use the Entrance hotspot to move inside.
And the only other option I turned on now
that we'll look at now,
is this drop-down list so we can
go directly to other nodes in the tour.
So that's your basic virtual tour creation using VPiX.
Just some of the most basic tools.