Virtual Tours: Video, Photo, and VR

Showcase a space or experience by creating a virtual tour. Learn how to create floor plans, shoot 360° video and photos, and piece together all of your 360° assets to build a tour.

Introduction

• How do you create virtual tours?
• Meet your instructors

1. What Are Virtual Tours?

• What are virtual tours?
• Uses for virtual tours
• Platforms for virtual tours

2. Prepping for a VR Tour Shoot

• Taking a walk-through of the location
• Discussing objectives with the client or business
• Creating a floor plan
• Creating a shot list

3. Gear for VR Tours

• Stabilizing the camera with a stand or tripod
• Choosing a VR camera
• Controlling a camera remotely
• Capturing VR content with a smartphone
• Shooting panos with a traditional DSLR or mirrorless camera
• Shooting HDR images with a traditional DSLR or mirrorless camera

4. Shooting a Panoramic Tour

• Best time to shoot
• Floor coverage
• Choosing how many images you need
• Shooting images with expanded dynamic range (brackets)

5. Shooting a VR Photos and Video

• Capturing VR photos with an Insta360
• Capturing VR video with an Insta360
• Capturing VR photos with a GoPro Fusion
• Capturing VR video with a GoPro Fusion
• General advice on lighting for VR

6. Merging Panoramic and HDR Images

• Merging a panoramic image with Adobe Photoshop
• Merging a panoramic image with Lightroom Classic
• Merging an HDR image with Aurora HDR
• Merging a 360˚ HDR image with Photomatix Pro

7. Enhancing and Stitching 360˚ Images

• Enhancing 360˚ images in Lightroom
• Merging a 360˚ image with PTGui
• Fixing and cleaning stitching errors in Photoshop
• Covering the nadir in Photoshop
• Enhancing and stitching 360˚ images from an Insta360
• Enhancing and stitching 360˚ images from a GoPro Fusion

8. Editing VR Video

• Importing VR video into Adobe Premiere Pro
• Editing VR video with Adobe Premiere Pro
• Refining VR video with Adobe Premiere Pro
• Exporting VR video from Adobe Premiere Pro
• Importing VR video into Final Cut Pro X
• Editing VR video with Final Cut Pro X
• Refining VR video with Final Cut Pro X
• Exporting VR video from Final Cut Pro X

9. Developing a 360˚ Tour

• Leveling and calibrating images for 360˚ tours in Pano2VR
• Connecting nodes in Pano2VR
• Covering the nadir in Pano2VR
• Publishing for a Website and Google Business View From Pano2VR

10. Uploading VR and 360˚ Content

• Publishing VR video with YouTube, part 1
• Publishing VR video with YouTube, part 2

Conclusion

• Next steps