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Virtual Tour Options~

We want to create a virtual tour to show off our gorgeous campus. What are the best ways to go about it; photo slideshow, interactive map, video, etc. We're considering filming a real-life campus tour by some of our student ambassadors and editing it Travel Channel-style. Any thoughts/ideas/examples?

Dave Carden, St. Mark's School of Texas (Dallas)

McCallie School has had huge success in their virtual campus tour. It is a great thing to talk about and didn't break the bank doing it. http://www.mccallie.org/virtualtour/index.htm. Used circlescapes to create the virtual tour - were great to work with and was around $6,000-$7,000 and integrated well with WH. This tour is used explicitly for admission purposes for prospectives. It is shown on ipads during Open Houses.

Skyimage.biz - two kids who recently graduated from high school and take aerial views from motorized helicopters

Pricing to hook custom campus maps up is dependent on if you need design work and how interactive you want the map to be, as well as number of hot spots.

York and Chapel - have really cool features, but they can be fairly pricey.

Examples of custom coded campus tours/maps:

[] [] - a few years old and looking to update the map [] http://www.worcesteracademy.org/campustour/ - full virtual tour and prompt a form to appear after the tour is done to get the person's contact info to follow up.

Self-Managed virtual tour option: https://www.montessorimanhattan.com/VirtualTour - created with the following: There is an application you can download (for free) on your iPhone and I believe any smart phone called. It is called DMD Panorama. You shoot the pictures slowly, and then they are uploaded to a website...  www.dermander.com. Get an account and upload your pictures. It provides the code for embedding. Then you would add an external video channel and paste in the embed code on a Podium page builder page.

Know your intended audience

video put on a motorized helicopter with remote control - accentap.com - Boston based company that has worked with a few schools.

YouTube.com - type in accentap and it will be the first one - soccer stadium tour

Ideas of strapping small video recorder onto you and walking around, to get a real, authentic experience of school/campus/certain activity.

Admission Quest gives free tours

Utilize students (and other constituents) and their experiences to show different locations on campus.