Floating vs Sticker Hotspots

Floating vs Sticker Hotspots

We’ve recently developed a new hotspot type and it hasn’t been properly announced yet. So here’s the official blog post on the new Floating Hotspots and how they’re different from Sticker Hotspots.  As the name would suggest, the...
Live-Guided Tours

Live-Guided Tours

The new solution for taking clients, students or colleagues on a virtual walk-through that truly is shared. Live-Guided Tours allow you to have a video call inside of a virtual tour. For the personal touch and assistance that remote showings may have lacked up to...
Multi-Language Tours

Multi-Language Tours

One of the most-requested features recently – it’s here! Check out how you can create a virtual tour that adapts and shows in your audience’s language in our new video tutorial. Trying to create a virtual tour in several languages used to be a very...
Skin Editor Revolution: #2 Dual Skins

Skin Editor Revolution: #2 Dual Skins

The introduction of a much more organized tree organization mode was our step 1 in the big skin revolution. Step 2 is a completely new feature, which truly caters to the differences in desktop versus mobile visualization. At the risk of repeating ourselves, we would...
Start Point Options

Start Point Options

When moving from one panorama to another, you have 4 options of how that new panorama should start (as in where you should be looking upon entering the new panorama):   As usual, when connecting panoramas via hotspots, you set the icon itself (or paint the polygon,...
Skin Editor Revolution: #1 Tree Mode

Skin Editor Revolution: #1 Tree Mode

3DVista Virtual Tour PRO has been designed with the idea in mind to give the user as much possibility for customization as possible. So much so that at times it seemed tedious to create skins when you’re in a rush. That’s why we have started a big skin...
Advanced Analytics

Advanced Analytics

After all the time you invest in creating your virtual tours, it is not only very interesting but also important to know how well your tours do, what paths and flows your audience follows and what wokrs for your tours and what doesn’t (in terms of hotspot...
How to play your tours on Samsung Gear VR

How to play your tours on Samsung Gear VR

Making your tours VR compatible is as easy as selecting one of the VR buttons (the goggle icon) from the library and placing it in your virtual tour. The user then has two options to open your tour on a mobile phone (and VR headsets based on mobile phones): They can...
Live & Adaptive HDR Panoramas with 360º Cameras

Live & Adaptive HDR Panoramas with 360º Cameras

In a prior post, we explained that the best way to stitch your images taken with a 360º camera is to use their own stitching programs. They usually come for free with the respective camera and consider the exact parameters and values of it. But then how do I create...
Stitching Panoramas from 360º Cameras

Stitching Panoramas from 360º Cameras

With the surge of decent 360º cameras, we get asked a lot how to best stitch the images they take. The answer is: Use the stitching software that these cameras come with. Why? Well, every camera provider develops his own stitching app that works exclusively (and...
Thumbnails on Social Media

Thumbnails on Social Media

We get asked this a lot, so here’s a post on how to share a link to your virtual tour on social media WITH a thumbnail.  Good news for 3DVista Hosting Users For all of those using 3DVista Hosting, you will have noticed that the program automatically assigns a...