From your panoramas to a 3D tour, step by step

No. A 360 camera or a DSLR with PTGui is enough: Virtuaaa builds the 3D model (dollhouse) and the floor plan from the panoramas alone. Panoramas from a 3D camera work too, exported as 2:1 equirectangular.

Yes. Once taken, the tour carries no Virtuaaa branding: you deliver it with your client's logo, menu and colors. Before payment, the preview is marked “Preview”.

The first one is free. Then $10 per virtual tour, $40 for 5 or $70 for 10, for tours of up to 150 panoramas ($10 more for each extra 150).

Yes, hosting is free, forever: no hosting fee, no subscription. Once you take the tour, paste its embed code into your page (WordPress, Wix...) or share its link: it stays hosted by Virtuaaa. You can also download it (.zip) to host it yourself.

Not for now: you only pay for the tours you take. For regular volume, packs of 5 tours ($40) and 10 tours ($70) cost less. If a monthly subscription interests you, write to us at [email protected]: we are looking into this option.

Yes. The panoramas are cut into tiles: only the area being viewed loads in high resolution, up to 16K.

In “My tours”, drop the panoramas in the upload area or paste the link of a Google Drive folder: each upload creates a new tour. To delete one, click the bin on its thumbnail, or “Delete this tour” on its page. A deleted tour is no longer shown on the websites where it was embedded; a zip already downloaded keeps working.

In the editor, click “Fix positioning”: the “Link the panos” editor opens. Drag a badly placed pano, on the plan or onto the floor in the photo, to where it was taken, then click “Save”: the arrows and transitions follow your positions. Step by step: Fixing the links.

They are listed under “To link” at the top of the plan, in “Fix positioning”: click one, then drag it to where it was taken (Fixing the links). Most often, an unlinked pano sees no other viewpoint or is too far from them: how to avoid it is on the Preparing your shoot page.

You can place them yourself in “Fix positioning” (Fixing the links). For a complex tour, on several floors or with many rooms, you are also offered the guaranteed build: for $30, the Virtuaaa team fixes the positioning of the panoramas and delivers the tour unlocked.

In the editor, Panoramas tab, the cross on a thumbnail selects the pano, then “Remove”. Two panos shot at the same spot are grouped under “Panos shot at the same spot”: click the photo to keep, the others are removed. A removed pano can be restored.

When you send the panoramas, answer “Several levels linked by stairs” to the question “How is the place laid out?”: the photographed staircase gives the height and position of each level, and the dollhouse stacks the levels. A group left apart is placed like a single pano: drag one of its panos, the whole group follows. If the tour keeps several groups, it gets a “Group 1, Group 2…” menu, unless you have already made your menu: it opens in the largest group and fades from one group to another. Rename the entries in the editor's Style tab.

In the editor, Hotspots tab, choose “Photo on wall”, “Video on wall”, “Gallery” or “Card + button”, then click in the pano, on the wall for a photo or a video. A photo is uploaded as JPG, PNG or WEBP (40 MB max); a video comes from a YouTube or Vimeo link, or an MP4 file (200 MB max). A video on the wall plays “Full screen”, “Automatic” (muted, looping) or “On click”.

In “Fix positioning”, drag the badly placed pano to where it was taken; a click on a line deletes a wrong link. The how-to is on the Fixing the links page.

Keep 2 to 3 meters between two viewpoints, 4 at most, and take a viewpoint in every doorway. All the rules are on the Shooting for automatic links page.

Logo, menu, background music, audio point of interest, button to another panorama, dollhouse, 2D plan, starting point: each option and where to turn it on is on the Tour options page.