Pan 3Sixty have recently created a custom-designed virtual tour, complete with user interface to showcase Hertford Museum’s newly refurbished displays.
The purpose of the virtual tour is to give a taster of what this independent museum has to offer to potential and existing visitors and enable them to see some of the amazing collections on display in an engaging and interactive way.
Hertford Museum is a local history museum located in the centre of the County town of Hertford and has been in existence since 1903. The museum was awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of just under £1m in 2007 to improve its facilities and services that it provides to the local community and other visitors. The newly refurbished museum re-opened in February 2010 and is now fully accessible, with displays that tell the story of the town and its people, the early days of the museum as well as a dedicated temporary exhibition space.
The virtual tour contains ten 360° degree panoramas. Each panorama enables the user to see a different section of the museum, providing them with an excellent insight to the museum displays, second only to a visit in person. An interactive floor plan allows users to navigate around the ‘virtual museum’, from where the user can select which display they want to see next. Further levels of interactivity, such as series of detailed photographs of objects from the ‘Where in the World’ display and samples oral histories from the many listening posts on the first floor displays, provide the user with an an even more engaging experience.
Museum staff commented, “Visitors often don’t have the time to experience everything the museum displays have to offer. They can now use the virtual tour to ‘re-visit’ the displays and in particular, listen to the many oral histories about living and working in Hertford from the comfort of their own home, on their own computer. The virtual tour also opens up the museum to a world-wide audience.”
Richard de Peyer, Hertford Museum’s new Curator said, “Wow! The Virtual Tour provided by Pan 3Sixty on our website works a treat and adds a new way into the collections that is dynamic and interactive. Pan 3Sixty have tailor-made the virtual tour to the museum’s specification, and the opportunity to fly in and search for data or images wherever the fancy takes you is a real asset to users.”
Eleanor Payne, the museum’s Learning Officer, is also pleased with the virtual tour and says, “‘I think the virtual tour will be a really useful tool for teachers when they are planning a visit to the museum, as well as using it a post visit reminder, and reinforcement of the learning experience for their pupils.”
If you would like to find out more about how Pan 3Sixty can help you to widen access to your museum or heritage site through a tailor made virtual tour, please call us on 0845 644 3605.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Clients, Full Screen Panoramas, Hertford Museum, Hertfordshire, Museum Virtual Tours, Virtual Tour User Interface
Pan 3Sixty is pleased to announce the launch of an all new campus virtual tour for the University of Hertfordshire. Incorporating 23 x 360º panoramas, the new virtual tour replaces the older campus tour (also produced by Pan 3Sixty in 2004 and updated 2006) and incorporates a variety of new features, including:
- A custom designed, Flash based User Interface branded in line with the University of Hertfordshire website
- Larger standard display size with full screen option
- Individual colour branding for each campus
- Custom designed panorama controls for ease of use
- Pop Up labels identifying items of interest
- Embedded video
- Night time photography at the Bayfordbury Observatory
The virtual tour showcases key facilities such as the new Forum building, the Gallery, Sports Village, Forum and Observatory (above), plus accommodation and teaching areas so that potential students, conference delegates, lecturers, and anybody else who is interested can take a detailed tour of the UK’s leading business-facing university.
Thinking about a 360º virtual campus tour for your University, College or School? Contact us on 0845 644 3605 to discuss how we can help or request a quotation by clicking here.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Clients, Full Screen Panoramas, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, University of Hertfordshire, University Virtual Tours, University Virutal Tour, User Interface, Virtual Tour User Interface
Pan 3Sixty recently completed a virtual tour of the latest Henry Moore exhibition, ‘Prints & Portfolios’, currently being exhibited at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
Unlike the virtual tours we produced of previous exhibitions for the Henry Moore Foundation, the new virtual tour uses our ultra high resolution 360 panoramas. At sixteen times the size of our normal full screen 360 panoramas, the virtual tour enables viewers to zoom in on each exhibit in far greater detail.
View the 360 Panorama above.
View the 360 Panorama above.
View the 360 Panorama above.
All images © The Henry Moore Foundation
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Art Gallery, Full Screen Panoramas, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire
Pan 3Sixty photographer Phil Giles won the February Flair Competition run by Creativematch with a panorama of the woodland near Much Hadham created earlier in the year. See the previous blog entry for more about the panorama, or click here to see a larger version.
Creativematch is setup to “provide everything for the UK creative industry, online.” and Flair is their “monthly competition for illustrators and photographers. It is designed as a showcase of recent work, a chance to show off your talents to the wider creative community and it’s clients. It’s also the chance to put your work before a global audience and have it judged by industry experts.”
Tags: Creativematch, Flair Competition, Much Hadham, Snow
During the recent cold snap, I produced a series of panoramas of the local countryside. Living on a single track dead end road, it’s never cleared nor gritted and so it doesn’t take much for us to get snowed in. As such, my walks were limited to the neighboring Hertfordshire villages of Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hunsdon and Widford, where I live.
In near white-out conditions and with the snow still falling, the local landscape was totally transformed and provided the opportunity to create sublime panoramas of the ‘near monochrome’ scenery.
Editing the final selection down to three panoramas, and experimenting with a number of different panoramic projections, I found each of the compositions naturally lent themselves to being displayed in their own particular way.
Mercator Panorama for print: Click the panorama to view a larger version
Globe Panorama for print: Click the panorama to view a larger version
Interactive 360 Panorama near Widford: Click the panorma to view
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Full Screen Panoramas, Hertfordshire, Snow
