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...
Extend your icon library
Did you know that you can save our sample icons to your library? All you need to do is download our demo tours, open them in VT PRO and click on the icon you want to save. Click on the little orange settings icon right below and select «Save this…
New: Linking GSV tours to a Business
It was by far the most requested feature for the new 3DVista GSV workshop - Linking to a Business. We heard you and squeezed it into our development plan 🙂 Now, you really do have a...
Upload your tours to Google Street View
Finally available for everyone: We have moved the Google Street View Publisher from our beta version to the official Virtual Tour PRO software. But not only that, we have also implemented the function to link your Street View Virtual Tour with a…
UPDATE 2019.1.1: Google Street View
The Google Street View Publisher has been moved from the beta version to our official Virtual Tour PRO. And as requested by so many of you, it allows you to link your GSV tours to a...
Semana Santa in 360º
Semana Santa, the Holy Week in Spain is the annual tribute of the Passion for Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic fraternities (Spanish: cofradías). During the last week of Lent, the week immediately before Easter, the streets are filled with…
How to get your Gyroscope back on iOS
You may have noticed that, when opening your virtual tours on an iPhone or iPad, the tours don't behave as they used to. Before, you could physically turn and rotate the phone to look around. Now, the screen is fix and you need to use your finger to…
Running Virtual Tours on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and mixed reality devices
We already posted an article on how to watch 3DVista Tours offline on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and similar. But since running your virtual tours on these devices online also requires a small one-time set-up of your devices, we thought it would be…
CLOSED — Looking for «Google Street View Publishing» beta testers—
We're looking for a small group of people wanting to get a head start and beta test what was probably one of the most anxiously awaited new features: Google Street View. If you would like...
Virtual Tours on YouTube
3DVista VT PRO includes a new export format which converts your virtual tour into a 360º video, ready to be uploaded onto "video-only" platforms and thus significantly increasing your...
Making Of: A Virtual Tour for Exploring Modern Living with Infrared Heaters by Welltherm
Usually, on this blog we show you how WE apply our technology, how new functions are meant to be used and samples that WE have created. But isn't it also most interesting to see the raw and unedited…
Virtual Tours offline on Oculus Rift — UPDATED
3DVista is one of the few virtual tour programs that allow you to create tours that can be shown offline in non-autonomous VR devices, such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or Microsoft Mixed...
NEW UPDATE: 2019.0.8
The existing just got better 😉 Improvements for Adaptive 360 Video (requires "clean cache"). Fixed a problem with loading the viewer selected in the "Media Control" action (reported by...
Animated Hotspots (APNG's)
It goes without saying that image quality is critical for determining whether your virtual tour will be conceived as professional or not. But equally as decisive is the design around it, the design of your skin. Subconsciously, a visitor will judge…
NEW UPDATE: 2019.0.7
Permission to select all media elements (including media outside of the Carousel) in the "Custom" option for Thumbnail List and Dropdown components. Fixed the zoom value, which wasn't...
Deep Linking
Want certain customers to open your tour at a certain point, room or even hotspot? No problem. 3DVista now features deep linking on media and even hotspot level. This means you can send custom links (of one and the same virtual tour) that …
3DVista API Calls for Scorm 1.2
Connect your 3DVista virtual tours to your LMS platform using our API. irtual Tours are the perfect tool for training, exams, interactive tests etc. They have proven to...
NEW UPDATE 2019.0.4: Deep Linking, Partial Panoramas and more
New Deep Linking "trigger-overlay-name" and "trigger-overlay-event" options for the tour url. Allows you to customize a tour's URL so that it opens directly in specific spots and with...
How to use the new Virtual Tour Skins
As of last week, there are 8 new skins for you to use. We have categorized them into modern, classic, community and enterprise so there should be something for everyone's needs. You can also mix and match components of different skins and …
NEW UPDATE (2019.0.2): New Skins, SCORM, Animated Hotspot Preview etc.
This is an exciting one. We spiced up your skin library, added support for Animated Hotspots and aSCORM functions for Javascript Execution. Here are the details: Added 11 new Skins....
New Skins available
Our team of graphic designers created 8 beautiful new skins and dozens of skin elements, which will give your virtual tours the last bit of «architectural hue» to wow your audience. As of today, you can find them in your skin library, ready to spice…
NEW UPDATE 2018.3.0: Highly improved speed and more
Improved the loading speed in the Player. Added over 90 animated hotspots to the library. Added Font Size resizable option in "Edit Styles" popup for Label, Multiline Text, Button,...
NEW UPDATE 2018.2.5 & 2018.2.6
The Windows Autoexecutable file now is a single EXE file if the tour is greater than 1 GB. Added "Change Source" button for Video Hotspots. Reduced the autoexecutable file size. Some fixes...
UPDATE (2018.2.4): Copy/Paste of Hotspots, Animated PNG Hotspots, SCORM
This is a strong one: Added COPY/PASTE FOR HOTSPOTS with Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V. You can select several hotspots in the list with Ctrl or Shift pressed. Added COPY/PASTE FOR SKIN ELEMENTS with...
RAW now Supported by Stitcher & VT PRO
So eagerly awaited by many of you, our programs now support RAW format images. This means, when shooting in RAW, you can conveniently import images in RAW format straight from your camera into Stitcher 4 to create amazing panoramas, without loss of…
New Beta Update 2018.2.0
Exciting new stuff on this one. Check it out, use it in our beta version and as always - get excited for it to move to the official 3DVista Virtual Tour PRO Version very soon 😉 Added new...
Animated Panorama
Discover a tour and have parts of it come to life having people inside the scene explain and guide you through the tour is the next big thing. Thanks to our new Animated Panorama, you can make certain areas inside your still panorama come to…
How Can I watch Virtual Tours offline on my Oculus Go?
Give your customers a VR headset with a virtual tour playing inside and you'll see them "wow" like little kids. THIS is what showcasing a place should feel like. Any tour created with...
Tutorial on Virtual Staging (by swapping panoramas)
This is how we created our New York City Loft Tour. What's so special about this tour is a) it's been created with panoramic CAD images and b)it features Virtual Staging — great for architects, photographers and realtors…
Major UPDATE — Undo/Redo & Animated Pano (2018.1.2)
The list of new features in this one is long, starting with the long awaited Undo and Redo buttons and finishing with a new Panorama Type: The Animated Panorama has already been moved from the beta into the official software and is now available in…
Out NOW: Animated Panoramas
Highly anticipated and finally here: As of today, our beta version supports Animated Panoramas. That means you can overlay videos on top of your panorama ("video hotspots") making it look...