With new customers unsure of what to expect when booking on the Caledonian Sleeper, ScotRail commissioned Pan 3Sixty to produced a 360º virtual tour of the train. The resulting 360º panoramas provide customers with a superb view of single and twin berth cabins, specially adapted accessible cabins for disabled passengers, seated accommodation and also the lounge car where passengers can relax with a drink and a snack.
Navigation though the virtual tour is available both in the full screen view (above) and the smaller branded view (below). You can view the virtual tour by clicking here.
Interested in how our 360º virtual tours can help your business? Contact us on 0845 644 3605 to discuss how we can help or request a quotation by clicking here.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Caledonian Sleeper, Clients, Full Screen Panoramas, ScotRail, Train Virtual Tour, 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
Pan 3Sixty was recently commissioned, by two separate clients, to produced a single 360° panorama of a shop interior. In both instances the clients wanted to use pop-up graphics to highlight items within the shops, but in different ways and for different reasons.
The first panorama, of a Phones 4U store, was produced for H Squared Ltd; a design company specialising in creating brand presence at point of purchase. The panorama is being used by H Squared to showcase their latest work to potential clients, with seven pop-up labels emphasising specific features of the shop design they created.
Click here to view the 360° panorama of the Phones 4U store.
The second panorama was produced for the London based Leica specialist, Red Dot Cameras. Whilst the 360° panorama provides a great overview of the shop, additional pop-up photographs of the display cases afford a view of the huge range of cameras for sale, from the latest £16k + Lecia S2 way back to the Leica 1 Model A.
Click here to view the 360° panorama of Red Dot Cameras.
By way of interest, the panorama of Red Dot Cameras was made on a Leica M9 using a Leica Tri-Elmar 16-18-21mm f4 ASPH-M lens set at 16mm. I’ll be posting more about the production of this panorama in a forthcoming post, including a comparison with my standard setup of a Canon 5D Mk2 & 15mm f2.8 lens.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Full Screen Panoramas, H Squared Limited, London Panoramas, Phones 4U, Pop-up Labels, Red Dot Cameras
In late 2008 we produced a virtual tour showcasing the London landmarks that competitors will see when running the ASICSs British 10k London Run. For the forthcoming 2010 race the virtual tour has been updated, including:
- Additional 360° panoramas of Admiralty Arch and Buckingham Palace, produced just prior to the Trooping of the Colour.
- A revised map of the new race route for 2010.
- Updating the branding for 2010.
- The panoramas are now displayed in full screen by default.
Click here to view the virtual tour.
Tags: ASICS British 10K London Run, London, London by night, London Virtual Tour
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
The ‘World Wide Panorama’ is a series of panoramic events that began back in 2004. There are four events each year, with each event based on a specific theme, attracting entries from photographers all over the world both professional and enthusiast alike.
The latest World Wide Panorama event went live today, showcasing the ‘Best of 2009′. For this event I entered a panorama from one of my favourite places in one of my favourite towns; Bonifacius Bridge in Bruges, Belgium.
Click here to see the World Wide Panorama Project entry. You can also see both day and night views of the bridge my personal portfolio.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Belgium, Bruges, Full Screen Panoramas, Personal Work, World Wide Panorama Project
We’ve been working on a commission for Hertford Museum to create a series of 360 degree object rotations and stills photography as part of the museums Heritage Lottery funded redevelopment.
Artifacts from the ‘Where in the World’ exhibit were photographed and the resulting 360 degree object rotations and stills will be displayed on a touch screen kiosk as part of the actual exhibit. With the artifacts and photographs displayed side by side visitors will be able to see the artifacts firsthand and then in greater detail via the object rotations on the kiosk along with accompanying information.
Tags: 360 object rotations, hertford, kiosks, museums
Pan 3Sixty has completed more commissions for Notting Hill Housing over the past couple of months, continuing our relationship with the company to provide high quality property virtual tours to showcase newly available apartments to their prospective buyers.
Recently we photographed a wonderful two bedroom apartment which is part of the Bridges Wharf development on the south bank of the Thames in Battersea, London. Click the photographs to view the 360° panoramas of Bridges Wharf in full screen.
If you’re a property developer why not contact us to discuss your requirements and see how we can help you. Alternatively if you already know what you want you could request a quotation. In addition to supplying 360° panoramas we also create custom designed and branded User Interfaces to provide your clients with a user friendly way to tour through the properties from room to room using a floor plan.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Bridges Wharf, Clients, London Virtual Tour, Notting Hill Housing
