Virtual tours · the inside, before anyone walks in
«It looks good inside, and nobody can tell»
The room, before they decide to come
A tour answers the question a photo cannot: what is it actually like in there. For places people are nervous about entering, that is most of the decision.
A virtual tour is a set of 360° panoramas joined into a walk through your premises, published to your Google listing and embedded on your own site. People move through it themselves, at their own pace, before they have spoken to anybody.
3 metres
the step between panoramas: a person walks through the place rather than jumping between stills
Our own work
This is what one looks like
The entrance panorama from a tour we shot for the ROLEKSA dental clinic in Lviv. Drag it — you will look around exactly as somebody would after opening the clinic's listing in Google Maps.
Drag to look around
How many panoramas
Work it out from the floor area
Move the sliders. The plan redraws itself and the count changes with it — three metres between points is what makes it feel like walking rather than jumping.
- entrance
- the panorama outside the door, where the walk starts
- point
- a shooting point, 3 m apart
- lines
- links between neighbouring panoramas: you can walk in any direction
- gap
- a doorway between rooms
- Panoramas in the tour
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- Average room
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- Shooting on site
- Processing and stitching
- Publishing to your Google listing
- The viewer embedded on your own site
The tour stays yours. It lives on your listing and on your site, and nothing expires.
Work out my premisesHow the shoot goes
Four steps, and one of them is yours
- 01
Someone has to be in the room
This is the honest part, and it comes first. A tour cannot be made remotely — somebody stands in your premises with a camera. We shoot in Ukraine, where our team is. For a business here that means either a local photographer shoots and we do everything else, or we talk about travelling, which only adds up at a certain size.
- 02
The shoot itself
Half a day for most places. You carry on working; we ask for the rooms to be tidy and the lights on, and we shoot around people rather than closing you down.
- 03
Processing
Stitching, colour, and blurring faces and number plates where they need it. This is the part that separates a tour from a set of wide photos.
- 04
Publishing
Onto your Google listing, and embedded on your site with our own viewer — so the tour is not trapped inside Google.
1 visit
the whole place shot in one go, not spread over weeks
Who gets the most from it
Places people are deciding whether to enter
A tour earns its keep where the decision is about comfort rather than price.
Clinics and practices
People are nervous before they arrive. Seeing the room, the equipment and how clean it is answers more than any paragraph about care standards.
Salons, studios, gyms
Chosen on how the place feels. A tour shows the space you have paid to fit out, which photos flatten.
Restaurants and hotels
Booking is about atmosphere. Someone deciding on a table for eight wants to see the room it is in.
Showrooms and shops
Half the reason people do not visit is not knowing whether it is worth the trip. A tour settles that before they set off.
Questions
What people ask about tours
Not covered here? Email us and we'll answer in plain words.
Can you do this remotely?
No, and this is the one service on this site where the answer is no. Somebody has to stand in the room with a camera. What we can do remotely is everything after that: processing, publishing to Google, and putting the viewer on your site.
So how would it work for a business here?
Two honest options. Either you use a local photographer for the shoot and we handle the rest — that is the usual arrangement and it works. Or we talk about travelling, which only makes sense above a certain size of job.
Does the tour live only inside Google?
No. We wrote our own 360° viewer, so the tour sits on your own site as well. That matters: a tour nobody can find from your listing or your homepage is a tour nobody sees.
How long does the shoot take?
Half a day for most premises. We shoot around your work rather than closing you down — we just ask for tidy rooms and the lights on.
Other services
A tour is worth having once people find you
Showing the room helps people decide. Getting them to the listing in the first place is a different job.
- «The listing is there, but it brings nothing»Google Business ProfileSet-up, everyday upkeep, suspensions and ownership. The profile most local customers see before they see anything else.
- «I don't know where my customers come from»Local SEOBeing visible across the area you actually work in, not only on the street you are registered at.
- «We ran ads. Nothing came of it»Google AdsCampaigns built around the jobs you want, with the money going where enquiries come from.
- «The site exists, but nobody finds it»Website SEOPages that answer the searches your customers actually type, and the technical work that lets Google read them.
- «We had a site built and it earns nothing»WebsitesSites built around the enquiry, not the slideshow. Including looking after them once they are live.
Next step
Tell us about your business
Leave your details, or just email us. We will look at your listing in Google and say what would make a difference and what is not worth paying for.
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- Phone
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